Religious Education
The elephant in the classroom
Imagining itself to be impartial, the “neutral” RE curriculum imposes its own claim
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
Will capitalism end capitalism?
Artificial intelligence is perverting the logic of our economic and political systems
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Woke politics was never trivial
Wokeness was a lot more, and a lot worse, than a passing online fad
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
Grey expectations
Saving England’s native red squirrel will require harsh measures