Sebastian Millbank, The Critic What has happened to the British policeman? Once, he was the embodiment of British orderliness ...

Today is Whitsun, once one of the great English Christian festivals, now largely forgotten. One of Philip Larkin’s greatest ...

The day after Pentecost Sunday is called Whit Monday and it played an important part in culture. This is the story … ...

I hope someone has stored for posterity Dawn French’s haughty, mewling moan about Israel. For when future historians come to ...

The House of Lords has removed Pride flags from its canteen following a complaint by a peer. At the start of June, the River Restaurant was decked out in the banners to celebrate the beginning of ...

Evangelical megachurches have grown to fit a stereotype. A young pastor with trendy clothing, a cheerful welcome team with name badges, a large and vigorous youth program, an expansive worship band ...

In the year of our Lord 1967, the Anglican Church of Canada had close to 1.22 million members and 272,400 worshippers on a typical Sunday. In a recent report, the church found 294,382 members on ...

Douglas Murray’s new book, On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel, Hamas and the Future of the West, looks at how we got here ...

Pentecost Sunday is a special day on the Christian liturgical calendar that marks the anniversary of when the Holy Spirit ...

Government documents have classified concern about mass migration as a “terrorist ideology” requiring intervention through the anti-radicalisation Prevent programme. An online training course on the ...

The famous literary lines were “To be or not to be”, from Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, and the opening to Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”.

He said that Reform MPs should not be calling on the prime minister to ban the burqa when it was not Reform’s own policy. (Yusuf has now resigned from Reform. His frustrations had been mounting for ...