Religion
Will the real historical Jesus please stand up?
You can’t escape Lewis’s trilemma
Candles in the cold
Hopeful thoughts in dark times
What church for what England?
The difficult future of the C of E
The souping of Saint Vincent
The iconoclastic impulse must be curbed
Against anti-Christian bias
Christians are being singled out for hostility
The conversion of Jeffrey Dahmer
How should we think about evil?
Christians are being jailed in Iran
Religious persecution is growing more severe
Losing faith in atheism
How nonbelief lost its cool
Canterbury Tales redux
Pilgrimage still serves to bring people together
Why the Church fails to get answers from above
The Anglican hierarchy is obsessed with management structures over the real issues of morality, theology and falling congregations
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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
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
Iran has been fatally misunderstood
The US and Israel were foolish to imagine that the Iranians would crumble
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then
The truth about Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was actually a black woman
Where is Britain’s vision?
Modern Britain has acquired a lack of national purpose, except for policies that are self-harming
A mean mood in Makerfield
Reform have enthusiasm, but quiet Labour voters could still swing it for Burnham
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
Critical briefing: home ownership headaches
Why more homes are not always good news for the ordinary buyer
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived