Mary Magdalene
The lives of Mary Magdalene
A fine book explores her life and afterlife
Daddy, what did you do during the Iraq war?
Don’t ask questions you do want the answer to, at least not where George Galloway is involved
The sacred and the profane
Allowing a “Rave in the Nave” in Canterbury Cathedral was a regrettable error of judgement
Fat lot of use
One cannot approve of so lazy a gimmick as a fat suit in reality-obsessed 2024
Scarlet Blake is a man
Indulging the fantasies of violent criminals is endangering women
Reform the police, don’t deform the police
The Met Police’s Gangs Matrix might have been flawed but it served an important purpose
The problem with securonomics
A genuine strategy for increasing our economic security and resilience as a society would not start with the state
Why tech execs don’t give their kids phones
Gen Z’s brains have been “rewired” by the online world —can they be restored to factory settings?
The glorious Ninth
Relive the moments when music changed forever
The W-word
The idea that the sex of a person is simply a matter of choice is a giant ideological lie
The problem with “extremism”
Violence and intimidation are deplorable, but can there be a clear definition of a concept as subjective as “extremism”?
Musical no man’s lands
Two violin concertos fail to inspire
