Religion
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
Reclaiming Christian nationhood
Linking the Christian faith to our national identity is not radical (or American)
It is time for antidisestablishmentarianism
Church establishment is still worth fighting for
Will Spain become a Protestant country?
How immigration is changing the religious dynamics of a traditional Catholic stronghold
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
The Islamic identity crisis
V.S. Naipaul was prophetic on the struggles between Islam and modernity
The right does not need religion
We should not mourn the end of the Quiet Revival
Supernatural delight
Religion cannot be reduced to dry abstractions
The shadow of the thorn tree
Christian culture must combine tradition and modernity
The truth about the “Quiet Revival”
Churches have been growing in Britain — just not all of them
Most Read
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
Anti-gambling campaigners need a reality check
Affordability checks on punters are counter-productive
Metamorphoses at the Rijksmuseum
Metamorphoses at the
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Respect for the quarry
Can we love the things we kill?
Britain needs a moral core
The UK’s greatest vulnerability isn’t its weakened military but its lack of spiritual depth
Women should not have to apologise for their rights
There is nothing cruel about women wanting single-sex spaces
The poetry of Easter
Reason cannot entirely account for the particular and the mysterious
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
A carnivore’s arcadia
Bowled over by a de luxe fillet steak
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes
The Symphony’s Indian summer
Imagine hearing a symphony for the first time
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature