I’m getting married in the morning!(well, in the afternoon, actually, on 19 September) Ding dong! The bells are gonna chime(no way – bell ringers count as part of [...]

Toby Young’s decision to resign as a non-executive director of the embryonic quango Office for Students is to be welcomed. As is his “unreserved apology” for his past [...]

Michael Gove© Chris McAndrew / UK Parliament I don’t like calling for people to be sacked. It isn’t nice when people lose their jobs; and in any normal walk of life due [...]

Me with Jill Saward on the Mount of the Beatitudes, overlooking the Sea of Galilee. When Jill Saward died in January, I lost my wife; my sons lost their mother; her siblings [...]

The Gurdian journalist Owen Jones shared a message he received from a member of the public in an election news report. And his image has been shared multiple times on social [...]

Flags of the EU member states outside the European Parliament in Strasbourg© Gavin Drake Much has been said about yesterday’s High Court judgement about the mechanism that [...]

Jeremy Corbyn MP© Rwendland / Wikimedia The Labour party will elect a new leader next week and – according to all the predictions from political hacks – it is likely to [...]

Our Parliament, in its wisdom, decided to give the British people a referendum to let us decide whether or not we remain in the European Union. The country decided – albeit [...]

UPDATE (9 September 2015): the Crown Prosecution Service and the Ministry of Justice have been in contact with me to say that the provisions of Section 72 of the Sexual [...]

One of the things that you become aware of as a writer on religion is how much religious illiteracy there is in the country. But over the past few months, as my writing has [...]