Roman Catholicism
The erotic art book banned by a pope
A rich tale of great artists, pornography and the papacy has made I Modi one of the most fabled of all books
Confessions of a Woke Catholic
How to live with the contradictions of identity and belief
Houellebecq, joy and Jesus
A morbid pessimist reminds us of the purity of faith
Prophet of Catholic conservatism
The magisterial Benedict XVI, one of the greatest minds ever to be elected pope, has bequeathed a lasting legacy
The problem of religious traditionalists
They wish to pass on the flame
Why they hated Benedict
He defended tradition against modernity
The Benedict XVI generation
How his “dynamic fidelity” responded to the needs of a changing world
Child sexual abuse and the seal of confession
New legislation will not help children
The authenticity illusion
We all have a little LARPer inside us
Farewell to St Benet’s Hall
How a Catholic institution capitulated to the non-binary gods of diversity
Prom-lematic
Landlords, Lammy, “Land of Hope and Glory” and other questionable phenomena
Explaining reality to Ed Miliband
You can’t ban baking and eat cake
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
Embrace your inner exile
How can we appreciate art in alienating times?
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
Living the good life
The rising middle classes were decisive in shaping the late 19th century English town
The strange death of the Office for Place
The demise of the Office for Place is a missed opportunity for housing
Foul play
David Peace’s new novel is about much more than football
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
They call it Poppy love
Poppy is, simply, a dog who knows what she wants
Anti-industrial strategy
Manufacturing has been systematically devastated by successive governments
