Religion
Silence in the Phoenix
On the transcendent qualities of acting
Will religion divide the British right?
Using Christianity as a political prop does not help anyone
False faiths
The digital worship of the autonomous self is a dangerous and self-defeating creed
Christians need imagination in the modern world
Why evangelicals in bright blazers won’t save Christian politics
You can’t have a Christian West without Christians
Christian politics cannot exist without actual dedication to Christ
Getting Christianity wrong
Alice Roberts misunderstands Christianity and its success
Why magic replaced God for millennials
Has religion gone the way of the typewriter?
On first going to church
The bromides of secular materialism are not enough to explain and justify life
Building a house on rock
Danny Kruger was right about Britain and Christianity
Don’t dismiss Kemi Badenoch’s atheism
The problem of evil is a very real one
Most Read
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
Adventures in Soho
All the pleasures of roughing it and very little of the actual rough
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
Is our law praiseworthy?
In connection with civil liberties, British law is at its lowest ebb
Critical briefing: EU-Taliban talks
As European governments harden their approach to migration, Brussels has taken the extraordinary step of negotiating directly with Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves