Pope Francis
When the populist meets the Pope
Javier Milei and Pope Francis represent very different and often hostile elements of Argentinian cultural life
Where is the media scrutiny of surrogacy?
The Pope is concerned but journalists seem indifferent
The Pope is right about nature
Disagreements on different means of protecting the environment should not obscure the aim
The Pope’s African pilgrimage
Does the continent represent the future of Catholicism?
The problem of religious traditionalists
They wish to pass on the flame
Making the moral case for war
Ukrainians face slaughter and subjugation. Church leaders must back them unequivocally
Putin and the Pope
Can the Argentinian pontiff make a difference in Ukraine?
The hardest word
The Catholic Church is resisting huge pressure to apologise for its involvement in indigenous cruelty
Pope Francis: the LGBT-friendly pontiff
Do the actions of the current pontiff signify shifting attitudes in the Catholic Church towards same-sex relationships?
Budgets are overrated
Taxation and spending make little difference while Britain is unable to build
Recasting the Crown for modern Britain
This progressive historian’s real charge against the monarchic institution is one of “complacency”
Healers who harm
Bad Therapy: Why The Kids Aren’t Growing Up by Abigail Shrier
Postcards from before the war
It is no longer possible to reflect upon Israeli culture as if the “Question of Palestine” could be brushed aside
Behind the sofa government
Current Tory strategy consists in hiding and hoping the voters don’t notice the mess
The government is failing Northern Ireland
Its reputation will be stained forever by the Northern Ireland Protocol and the Windsor Framework
The wrong kind of groupthink
Why do so many economists deny that the value of money is related to its quantity?
Best bets for Cheltenham
My racing tips for Cheltenham
Encouraging evil for the common good
Mansfield does not condemn him: rather refreshingly he exhilarates in Machiavelli’s genius
Saving my own bacon
Only the particularly pig-headed will stick it out in the pork farming business
