The BBC once promoted a Christian worldview. Today it champions a very different philosophy
January 31, 2019
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The BBC has wholeheartedly thrown its lot in with the liberal reformers; there has been no “impartiality” on any of
The modern pope who reversed course
September 13, 2018
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The Pope Who Would Be King by David Kertzer, Random House, 512pp, £25 For a 21st-century English Catholic, stepping into
A new approach unlocks the Russian enigma
August 9, 2018
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The Tragedy of Property by Maxim Trudolyubov, Polity, 226pp, £17.99 In the mid 1990s I did a stint in the
The slow death of the secularisation theory
June 14, 2018
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Seven Ways of Looking at Religion by Benjamin Schewel, Yale, 248pp, £35 Like many of us, I suspect, I have
Modern Europe’s crisis of confidence
April 19, 2018
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To Fight Against This Age – On Fascism and Humanism by Rob Riemen, WW Norton, 176pp, £15 Is the continent
Rome: from the Gauls to the Nazis
February 1, 2018
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Rome: A History in Seven Sackings by Matthew Kneale, Atlantic, 464pp, £20 Any writer undertaking a history of Rome must
If the Tories lose the next election, this is why
November 23, 2017
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It seems another age but there was a time when the commentariat hailed George Osborne as a political genius. That
The trial that catapulted Hitler to power
August 31, 2017
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The Trial of Adolf Hitler by David King, Macmillan, £25 The casual student of history might think that we already
A high-flying politician asks: ‘Who am I?’
August 3, 2017
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First Confession by Chris Patten, Allen Lane, £20 In December 1998, as a BBC reporter, I watched Chris Patten chair
The BBC can change on abortion
October 20, 2016
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Reading Quentin de la Bédoyère’s manual on “how to win an argument about abortion” in these pages last month took