How our Catholic university is making the most of its roots
October 24, 2019
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“Diversity” is one of the buzzwords of our age, and those of us in higher education have been vigorous in
St Mary’s shows a Catholic university can flourish in Britain
August 22, 2018
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Higher education is a ruthlessly competitive business, but St Mary’s shows Catholicism and higher education go hand in hand
The new idea of a university
August 16, 2018
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There is a heatwave, and it is clear that Victorian buildings, however beautiful, are not ideal places in which to
Justin Welby needs a history lesson
February 1, 2018
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I first encountered the name of Bishop George Bell more than 40 years ago when working on Churchill’s official papers.
John Charmley: I haven’t lost faith in universities
September 28, 2017
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As I watch the new students arriving, I reflect that this is the 43rd year that I have been involved
Triumph of the box-tickers
July 13, 2017
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The old Soviet system of over-bureaucratisation did not die with the USSR; it transmigrated into Britain’s higher education system. When
John Charmley: A Churchill or a Nero?
March 30, 2017
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The “good clean tradition of [our] politics has been weakly surrendered to a half-breed American whose main support was that
Why I’ll be returning to Flame in the future
March 13, 2017
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Flame 2017, Britain’s leading Catholic youth event, was hardly my natural environment, but it proved a moving experience
Britain’s latter-day Reformation
July 28, 2016
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The referendum campaign majored on the idea of “getting back control of our country”. It is quite unclear what that
A national controversy based on whispers
April 7, 2016
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Those of us who have long admired Bishop George Bell will welcome a new biography – the first written with
The Pope is right: we have an image problem
March 31, 2016
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Whether it recognises it or not, Christianity has an image problem. At a recent lecture at the University of East
The long march of Catholicism
January 28, 2016
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News headlines tend to focus on the decline of religion in this country. This feeds into a hermeneutic of decline,