Liturgy
Signposts of the sacred and mundane
What would it have been like to worship in parish churches in the Middle Ages?
Holocaust Memorial Day and Christian lament
We should remember the Shoah with more than vague talk of “values”
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
Art: my part in its downfall
Pierre d’Alancaisez was part of the
contemporary art world’s inner circle until
he saw the error of his ways
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands
The mother of all U-turns
Kemi Badenoch discovered that backing wars and opposing petrol prices is harder than it looks
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy