Pope Benedict XVI
A wartime papacy
Amid modern culture wars, Pope Francis was nothing if not unpredictable
Prophet of Catholic conservatism
The magisterial Benedict XVI, one of the greatest minds ever to be elected pope, has bequeathed a lasting legacy
Why they hated Benedict
He defended tradition against modernity
The Benedict XVI generation
How his “dynamic fidelity” responded to the needs of a changing world
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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
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change
On travellers and trail hunting
Left-wingers have bizarrely irrational double standards when it comes to protecting culture
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
The right-wing case for social media
X and other platforms can be vital sources of unfashionable information and dissenting opinions
Jams, jellies and EU insanity
From toast to tungsten, the EU is an enemy of innovation
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing