Fr Patrick McLaughlin
Crime and Christianity
Dorothy L. Sayers may not have been the most assiduous warden, but she served her church in the best way she could
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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
Antisemitism and the Islamic connection
Antisemitic sentiments in Islamic theology cannot be overlooked or obscured
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
The EU must change course on energy
European industry is finally standing up to irrational EU climate policies
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option
A high-speed tour of European History
Europe: A New
History by Roderick Beaton
Bach in black
CPE Bach: Berlin Symphonies (BIS)
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived