Religion
In America we trust
The best and worst of America’s civil religion displayed in the wake of 9/11
Save the Parish!
The Church of England has plans, and the clergy aren’t happy. David Scullion discusses with Alison Milbank and Marcus Walker
Sing when you’re sinning
Football may be the new religion, but it faces the same challenges as the old
Beating the wrong drum
The dogmatic insistence that unionists are being pushed towards a united Ireland
Catholic tastes
Christopher Silvester on films of faith and the canonisation of three children’s divine visions
Turbulent priests
How should the clergy best engage in politics and public disputes?
Don’t sever the head
How the cultural shift and a departure from central purposes risks making the Church unrecognisable to the grassroots members who support it
Preaching to the choir
The Church will soon hit a Hartlepool moment, when people who feel politically unwelcome go elsewhere
The organised anger of Israel’s Arab citizens
The violence that’s receiving much less media coverage than Gaza
Walled in against the modern world
Islam outside the West preserves much of its traditional character, but Islam within the West is in danger of petrifying
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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
Farewell to an intellectual giant
Patrick Nash pays tribute to the late
David Abulafia, fastidious champion of
Oxbridge’s academic standards
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does
Lost railway art
Art should matter in all its guises, above and below ground
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism
How EDI corrupts public life
It compels people to accept falsehoods in the name of equality
To infinity immigration and beyond
Soaring rates of citizenship applications show no signs of slowing down
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
The online life that steals your soul
Read this book and then stamp on your phone
Critical briefing: Unite the Kingdom
What you need to know about the Unite the Kingdom march on May 16