It was around 1980 that Paul Marshall, a keen Christian undergraduate at Oxford, went to a presentation by the evangelical aid agency Tearfund. He was so impressed by the call for Christians to help ...

“And you, Mr President, are no Franklin D Roosevelt.” The words must have briefly hovered in Keir Starmer’s mind when he learned that Donald J Trump had been telling reporters “this is not Winston ...

There’s no shortage of predictions that the US-Israeli attack on Iran will end disastrously. Some would argue that it is already a disaster. From learned military wonks pointing out the lack of clear ...

Those described as “Westminster watchers” are mostly just that—they glance at the braying tribes at PMQs, and keep half an ear out for the odd line of invective that produces a particular jeer. It is ...

The failed prosecution of Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh tells us about the lack of seriousness in the police approach to terrorism legislation and the utter seriousness of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) in ...

When Reform UK’s Zia Yusuf told the Times last week that Christianity was “core to the history and the DNA of the country”, you might think he was merely stating the obvious. In fact, this was the ...

The television show The Crown was full of factual inaccuracies: in every episode and every scene mere historical detail yielded to dramatic purpose. The programme was compelling, but it was not a ...

On the green in the next village along from mine, a replica of the Tin Man from The Wizard of Oz stands proudly, watching the traffic go by. Although I have always relished seeing him, I have also ...

“Should I read Wuthering Heights?” asked my 17-year-old son last week, a rhetorical question, you’d think, given the book-pushing nature of our relationship. Despite being published almost 180 years ...