Pope Francis
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?
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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
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change
The Reparations Game
Chris and Henry talk to Nigel Biggar about reparations.
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
The Real shooting match
Cue the bogus platitudes that leaders make about sport’s ability to heal divisions
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves