Could the coronavirus prompt a religious revival?
May 15, 2020
On the walk to my mother’s house there is a handwritten sign on a gate that reads “Happy Easter! Jesus is risen from the...
Tim Stanley
Is Boris the best we can hope for?
December 19, 2019
What are Christians to make of Boris Johnson and his spanking new majority? It depends, of course, on your politics. I know plenty of...
Usman Khan exploited loopholes in our justice system – and our worldview
December 5, 2019
If we suspect someone is a lost cause, is it naïve to try to reform them and stupid to release them? Usman Khan went...
Cranmer’s accidental gift to Catholics
November 21, 2019
Last week I was the guest speaker at the semi-finals of the Book of Common Prayer recital contest in Kent. Even one of the...
There was nothing inevitable about it
November 7, 2019
We’re fast approaching the 30th anniversary of the opening of the Berlin Wall, which helped spell the end of communism. East Germany was morally...
We’ve seen the ‘new masculinity’ before
October 24, 2019
The latest craze is to go “gender fluid”. The name of the game is playing with identity, mixing things up, blurring lines. The male...
The courtroom hug that showed Christianity in action
October 10, 2019
I can entirely understand why some people thought Brandt Jean shouldn’t forgive Amber Guyger. Guyger killed his brother. On September 6, 2018, in Texas,...
The most peaceful and prayerful liturgy I’ve ever known
September 26, 2019
The triumphant tour of the relics of St Thérèse of Lisieux showed that Catholicism is alive and well in Scotland. Thousands came out to see...
First they came for Pell…
August 29, 2019
Why do so many Catholics refuse to believe that the Australian cardinal George Pell is guilty of child abuse? The cynical answer is “tribal...
My metaphysical friend is running for president
August 15, 2019
Yet more Americans have been killed in mass shootings: 22 in El Paso, Texas, and 10 in Dayton, Ohio. It’s senseless. I love America...
Neo-Victorians like Rees-Mogg know what Britain is lacking
August 1, 2019
I’m very much enjoying our neo-Victorian government. I’ve been pushing Boris for PM for over a year: I said on BBC Question Time that...
The vote that made me wish I was back in Iraq
July 18, 2019
I’m afraid this is a very depressing story. I was in the House of Commons last week, after a trip to Iraq, giving a...
Could the coronavirus prompt a religious revival?
May 15, 2020
On the walk to my mother’s house there is a handwritten sign on a gate that reads “Happy Easter! Jesus is risen from the...
Is Boris the best we can hope for?
December 19, 2019
What are Christians to make of Boris Johnson and his spanking new majority? It depends, of course, on your politics. I know plenty of...
Usman Khan exploited loopholes in our justice system – and our worldview
December 5, 2019
If we suspect someone is a lost cause, is it naïve to try to reform them and stupid to release them? Usman Khan went...
Cranmer’s accidental gift to Catholics
November 21, 2019
Last week I was the guest speaker at the semi-finals of the Book of Common Prayer recital contest in Kent. Even one of the...
There was nothing inevitable about it
November 7, 2019
We’re fast approaching the 30th anniversary of the opening of the Berlin Wall, which helped spell the end of communism. East Germany was morally...
We’ve seen the ‘new masculinity’ before
October 24, 2019
The latest craze is to go “gender fluid”. The name of the game is playing with identity, mixing things up, blurring lines. The male...
The courtroom hug that showed Christianity in action
October 10, 2019
I can entirely understand why some people thought Brandt Jean shouldn’t forgive Amber Guyger. Guyger killed his brother. On September 6, 2018, in Texas,...
The most peaceful and prayerful liturgy I’ve ever known
September 26, 2019
The triumphant tour of the relics of St Thérèse of Lisieux showed that Catholicism is alive and well in Scotland. Thousands came out to see...
First they came for Pell…
August 29, 2019
Why do so many Catholics refuse to believe that the Australian cardinal George Pell is guilty of child abuse? The cynical answer is “tribal...
My metaphysical friend is running for president
August 15, 2019
Yet more Americans have been killed in mass shootings: 22 in El Paso, Texas, and 10 in Dayton, Ohio. It’s senseless. I love America...
Neo-Victorians like Rees-Mogg know what Britain is lacking
August 1, 2019
I’m very much enjoying our neo-Victorian government. I’ve been pushing Boris for PM for over a year: I said on BBC Question Time that...
The vote that made me wish I was back in Iraq
July 18, 2019
I’m afraid this is a very depressing story. I was in the House of Commons last week, after a trip to Iraq, giving a...
