God
Supernatural delight
Religion cannot be reduced to dry abstractions
A God-shaped hole
Our thought needs theology as much as our hearts need transcendence
Musings on Martyrdom
For Christians, life entails both sacrifice and redemption
On first going to church
The bromides of secular materialism are not enough to explain and justify life
God alone can bind our nation together
The Church may yet prove to be the last anchor of national life
Don’t dismiss Kemi Badenoch’s atheism
The problem of evil is a very real one
God of God, Light of Light
Christmas should point us towards the eternal truths of the Nicene Creed
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
Prophet of Catholic conservatism
The magisterial Benedict XVI, one of the greatest minds ever to be elected pope, has bequeathed a lasting legacy
In at the Domination
The controversial top-level adviser sets the record straight about his role in Creation
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
Questionably loyal opposition
A “rainbow coalition” between Conservatives and the Greens raises questions about the state of the Tories
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
Farewell to an intellectual giant
Patrick Nash pays tribute to the late
David Abulafia, fastidious champion of
Oxbridge’s academic standards
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
Scandalous but Scottish
Why Scotland experienced another yellow wave