values
Is it still a wonderful life?
The values Frank Capra celebrated seem to be fading in our times
The king and the boss
Turkish President Erdoğan is no fan of Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu — and vice versa
The sacred and the profane
Allowing a “Rave in the Nave” in Canterbury Cathedral was a regrettable error of judgement
Bevis Marks Synagogue
Britain’s oldest purpose-built synagogue faces a new, more insidious threat
Cultural Christianity and the vulgar wisdom of memes
Dawkins is caught between the pure idea of rationalism, and the messy meme of cultural Christianity
Entering the populist Pyongyang
Your correspondent watches the far right debate immigration — but will he go native?
The secrets of familial suffering
Recovering from the burden of generational pain can be a private act
Have the police criminalised being “openly Jewish”?
It is unacceptable for the police to blame the victims of potential bigotry
Against Britain’s two-tier policing
Street preachers should not be arrested for offending people
The emptiness of hype
A cultural legacy depends on far more than passing enthusiasm
Could Britain have a coherent written constitution?
It seems probable that it would have a Christianity-shaped hole at its core
Alastair Campbell’s gender neutral nonsense
Alastair Campbell might not care about single-sex spaces, but women do