Religion
Light and shade of a complex Eden
Rodgers and Cavendish gamely and colourfully attempt both to tell the stories and capture Granada’s long-standing mysterious appeal
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
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
Dumbed-down democracy
“Public opinion” is useless when the public is largely ignorant
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Wunderbar wines
The love affair between British and German wine is an ancient one
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
Digging for gold
La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park
Restoration romps
Purcell, The Musical, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
Polish piano
Andre Tchaikowsky: Piano concertos (Ondine)
Stop selling sexism
Banning strip clubs might sound unrealistic but it is the right thing to do
Greene around the gills
A truly ghastly gastropub