Religion
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
Christianity is a culture
Christianity is not just a private faith, nor a set of traditions, but a way of individual and collective life
All communities can be corrupted
It is not just conservative Christians who can foster predatory behaviour
The forgotten Ukrainians
Much support has been given to Ukraine, but the UK government is shamefully silent on the violation of religious freedom
MPs should not have to declare their religious beliefs
This is not about accountability, it is about hunting heretics
The transcendent in the mundane
Religion cannot be abstracted from institutional life
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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
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
On a winning streak
Eventually streaks end, but it does not have to be The End
The sickness of Sickfluencers
Social media and AI are enabling the exploitation of our benefits system
Can liberalism recover?
A new book charts a different course for a dispositional liberalism
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair
The strange death of Christian Scotland
Scotland’s religious traditions have been swept away. Now, secular intolerance rules
The principles of peers
Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers
Greene around the gills
A truly ghastly gastropub