China in your hand

  • 18 May 2018

Book Review: 'Asian Waters: Chinese Expansion and the Shifting Balance of Power' by Humphrey Hawksley China’s re-emergence as an economic powerhouse with the diplomatic, military, and political consequences that entails is one of the great stories of the first half of the T...

Business, not religion, sits at the heart of the American Dream

  • 12 May 2018

Book Review: 'New World, Inc: The Making of America by England's Merchant Adventurers' by John Butman & Simon Target We all know how the United States of America got going, right? Well this book tells you that everything you thought you knew about how a group of religio...

Former Chief Nursing Officer is a worthy first female Bishop of London

  • 11 May 2018

Today in St Paul’s Cathedral Sarah Mullally will be enthroned as the 133rd Bishop of London. For her, London, the Church of England and for the nation it is a momentous moment. Ahead of her lies the task of leading and managing the largest and most diverse diocese in the co...

Book Review: Faith Finding a Voice by Cardinal Vincent Nichols

  • 11 May 2018

Vincent Nichols, Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster, and leader of England and Wales’ Catholic community, is turning into a prolific author. This latest book, following hard on the heels of Hope in Action, continues a pattern of using theology and faith to explore how life, wi...

Jacob Rees-Mogg has helped Theresa May in her quest for a consensus on Brexit

  • 2 May 2018

Interviewed on Radio 4’s Today programme this morning, Jacob Rees-Mogg made two very important comments which will have brought relief and delight to No 10. First, he resolutely condemned attacks on Ollie Robbins, the Prime Minister’s senior Brexit advisor and negotiator as...

Brexit is not utopia but it can be a great opportunity for the UK

  • 27 Apr 2018

In a week when the economy showed signs of faltering, the government lost several key votes in the House of Lords, the fallout out around ‘Windrush’ continued and the local government election campaign entered its final full week, Brexit continued to dominate the political age...

Finally the beauty of mathematics has been made clear to me

  • 25 Apr 2018

My father, an Edinburgh university prize-winning mathematician and life-long teacher of the subject, tried very hard to explain mathematics to me – its beauty, importance, as well as its utility, but I was a poor student and the subject has always been a complete black hole fo...

The Queen has done us proud – again

  • 20 Apr 2018

As the leaders of the 53 Commonwealth nations gather at Windsor Castle today, the Queen can reflect with quiet satisfaction on a job – her job – well done. She has presided over the largest gathering of Commonwealth Heads of Government in history, and they seem likely to appro...

Syrian intervention needs careful consideration and a war aim

  • 12 Apr 2018

As the evidence of the latest atrocity continues to mount in Syria, the UK.  Prime Minister, Theresa May, is mulling what part, if any, Britain might play in an overt military intervention. Special Forces and the RAF have been carrying out operations for a while in the area, b...

Prime Ministers: Who was the greatest of them all?

  • 11 Apr 2018

Book Review: 'Gimson's Prime Ministers - Brief Lives from Walpole to May' takes us on a whistle-stop tour of PMs past and present How many British Prime Ministers can you name? How many of them have done something that has made a lasting impact on the country? Be honest, it...