The quandary of being half-Jewish
I was in my early twenties when I found out that I’m half-Jewish. Until then, as far as I was…
What happened to the working class?
The Sunday Times’s headline for the obituary of Edward Bond earlier this month was striking: ‘Briton who rose from a…
Why Spaniards celebrate April Fool’s Day in December
On 28 December 1993, after getting off a flight from Barcelona at Madrid’s Barajas airport, 23 year-old actress Maribel Verdu…
Road House: big dumb fun that takes itself too seriously
The original Road House movie, released in 1989 and starring Patrick Swayze, was an absolute blast. Over-the-top, sexy, and oozing with masculinity, Road…
The gender critical movement fighting against self-ID
With reports in the press about further ‘clashes’ in Melbourne last week between ‘trans’ and ‘anti-trans’ activists, and the self-inflicted…
Alexandra Marshall Live S2E7 with Gary Hardgrave
What is the future of media going to look like in a world of government censorship, hysterical political activism, and…
The King’s reassuring Easter appearance
Most years, the royal family’s attendance at the Easter Mattins service at St George’s Chapel in Windsor is nothing more…
The problem with Netflix’s Three-Body Problem
How many modern Chinese books, TV shows or films do you count among your favourites? Perhaps Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon comes to…
Euthanasia is coming – like it or not
Throughout the short life of the Assisted Dying Bill which failed in the Commons, the ‘faith community’ (a quaint term…
England’s forgotten Easter traditions
If you get up early enough on Easter morning, according to old English folklore, you might be lucky enough to…
We can’t eliminate all risk for children
The classic book The Railway Children contains several episodes that must seem almost incomprehensible to modern children. None perhaps are…
Save our parish priests!
Go to your parish church this Easter, because the clock is ticking for small and rural parishes. Even if the beauty…
Will the ‘Tik Tok Taoiseach’ undo the damage done by Leo Varadkar?
Simon Harris, the anointed successor to the outgoing Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, has quite the in-tray. Harris, who was the…
The enigma of John the Baptist
You’ve seen him in pictures and maybe also on TV. Dressed in rags, eating bugs, shouting angrily at people. You…
All schools are ‘faith-based’ schools
Facts and information can be neutral, but teaching is never neutral. All schools are faith-based schools. Some are more intentional…
Rishi Sunak only has himself to blame for the rise of Reform
By their rugby analogies shall ye know them: when Boris Johnson was asked about his chance of becoming prime minister,…
How Starmer wants to reverse Thatcher’s legacy
Members of Labour’s frontbench have recently fallen over themselves to acclaim Margaret Thatcher. Hot on the heels of Rachel Reeves…
We’d be wise to ignore the Council of Europe’s transgender nonsense
The Council of Europe might claim to be focussed on human rights, democracy and the rule of law, but lately…
Japan is no country for young men
Another week, another fun fact about Japan’s declining birthrate and ageing population to startle and amuse us. Japan has now…
Hamas resurrected?
The duplicity and the cynicism of the Biden administration knows no bounds. By choosing to abstain from a Chinese/Russian-sponsored UN…
Brown study
I hope you will allow me, just for this week, to mention an essentially personal matter. On 19 March, I…
