Interview

My road to Mount Athos

the sun was setting to the west as i stood upon a vantage point known to the byzantine residents of constantinople as hagios demetrios. it w...

Legal Notebook

in december, an ex-police officer called harry miller won a legal challenge against a national policy permitting forces to record gender-cri...

Sir Stephen Stewart

Loss and gain

there was consternation in oxford when the news went round – like wildfire, as this sort of news invariably does – that the pro-vice-chancel...

Serenhedd James

Syon: an English Eden

when the brigittine nuns and priests of syon abbey received their copies of the orcharde of syon in 1519, their world on the bank of the riv...

The king of contemplation

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

Liberalism as the great villain

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

Dobbs v. Jackson: What did Roberts, Kavanaugh, and Barrett say?

as the wait begins for a decision in the  dobbs v. jackson women’s health organization  abortion case, close attention will be pai...

The joy of unexpected things

in a pivotal scene in evelyn waugh’s novel  brideshead revisited , the agnostic narrator and main character charles ryder interrogates ...

Saving face

last month, after 13 short years, i deleted my facebook account. the site, at last, has lost any of the allure it once had (more on that lat...

Constance Watson

On Pilgrimage with Rosemary Hill

where would you go? i would go to canterbury which is not very original, but i have my reasons. where i live in south london is very close t...

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