Giles Fraser: Behind the allure of the Red Tory

Philip Blond is the new big thing in the Conservative Party ideas laboratory — although he would deny that there is anything new about Red Toryism.

The West needs to understand faith

The House of Lords, in a recent five-hour debate, surveyed new challenges to British foreign policy at the start of the Obama presidency.

Paul Vallely: Is the Pope naïve or arrogant?

Is the Pope naïve or arrogant? That is the question that many senior Roman Catholics are now asking themselves pri­vately, although they would hesitate...

Leader: The Cardinal’s farewell

SPECULATION about the identity of the next Archbishop of Westminster ought not to overshadow a proper appreciation of the tenure of Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor...

100 years ago: More Dreadnoughts!

THE Prime Minister’s admission last week, that Germany’s im­mensely quickened activity in naval construction is a matter of grave importance for us

Faith really does help in living the moral life

‘Communities imbue their members with particular virtues’

Simon Parke: ‘Kill the referee!’

THE Football Association faces a breakdown of discipline in the game.

National Express misses the point

AT LAST, someone has had the courage to act. For too long we have allowed a small but noticeable fifth column of monomaniacal enthusiasts to roam unchecked...

Gathering up Swithun’s fragments

NEW MATERIAL has emerged about one of Britain’s best known saints, St Swithun (of rain-lore fame).



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