The Divine Comedy
The Divine Comedy at 30
The Divine Comedy will be playing a concert at the Barbican on 14 October to celebrate Neil Hannon
Religion without mercy
Progressivism has all the zeal of Christianity, but none of its emphasis on forgiveness
On the awfulness of liberals
The Lords must put the Leadbeater bill to sleep
Autumn Reeves
It was a grim budget — but was it a necessary one?
Season’s bleatings
Christmas is almost here, but our MPs are not in the festive spirit
Why Christian culture is essential to education
It deeply informed our art and our ideas
The restless life of a very bourgeois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
Green in name only
The Green Party doesn’t understand the realities of rural life
The shell shock of the arts
How will the art world respond to its narrative shock?
A taste of history
Travel to Italy to savour the majestic “Barolo of the South”
Too many silences in this book about music
The hazy treatment of what “music” even entails falls flat
The Royal British Legion’s day to forget
The “Pride poppy” demeans what should be a dignified occasion
