Thomas Cromwell
Virtue now means thinking the right thing, rather than doing it
Loudly proclaiming one’s beliefs as a way of ‘virtue signalling’ is nothing but moral posturing
Richard III fans are the medieval equivalent of 9/11 truthers
Richard almost certainly murdered his nephews. Why does he attract such a fan club?
TV review: Henry VIII receives a BBC makeover
The king is suspiciously slim in BBC Two’s blockbuster Wolf Hall
Bishops criticise ‘perverse’ depiction of St Thomas More in Wolf Hall
Bishop Mark Davies says ‘one of the greatest Englishmen’ has been presented as ‘a scheming villain’
Admiring Thomas Cromwell is a respectable way of expressing anti-Catholic feeling
Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall propagates the myth that Britain became great once it had ditched Catholicism
Should we care that Hilary Mantel is anti-Catholic?
Fashions have changed meaning literature and the Church are no longer comfortable bedfellows
Congratulations to Hilary Mantel
The twice-winner of the Man Booker Prize has found new riches in the otherwise exhausted seam of Tudor history
