Culture

ralph fiennes’ staging of  ts eliot’s four quartets at the harold pinter theatre in london – which ended its  run just b...

Melissa Brady-Dant

it’s a brave thing, to compose a christmas oratorio when you’re not bach: the comparisons between his genius and yours are likely to be awkw...

Michael White

one only has to think of the controversy about doctor who, and the casting of jodie whittaker as the 13th doctor back in 2018, to be reminde...

Serenhedd James

back in september we decided to put worth school in sussex on the cover of our education supplement. a first. not long after, i was invited ...

William Cash

if you tend your garden yourself, there is always a danger that all you will see as you walk around it is a worryingly long list of jobs. th...

charlie-hart

leaders a lockdownless christmas eu ruling over abortion harms us all the father’s christmas presence diary  –  lady antonia frase...

The Catholic Herald

whatever happened to tradition?: history, belonging and the future of the west by tim stanley bloomsbury, £20, 266 pages ________ in recent ...

Theo Hobson

collected poems rowan williams carcanet, £15.99, 249 pages ________ the poetry of rowan williams is full of moments when the known world bec...

Susannah Herbert

"christmas won’t be christmas without any presents", grumbled jo, lying on the rug.” the opening of little women has had children nodding in...

Sophia Waugh

by any standards, the news that michael nazir-ali had been received into the catholic faith is stunning. the former church of england bishop...

Jonathan Petre