Dan Hitchens

Dan Hitchens writes the newsletter 'The Pineapple' and is former editor of the Catholic Herald

The painful truth about assisted suicide

13 Nov 2024

Labour’s ‘radicalism’ isn’t radical at all Keir Starmer has turned the party into an arm of the City of London

01 Feb 2024

Jeremy Hunt needs childcare lessons from Liz Truss The Chancellor's new plan for parents is too authoritarian

15 Mar 2023

Keir Starmer has sold out to the City Labour's leader may have cured his party's money problems — but at what cost?

08 Dec 2022

Farewell to the ‘non-hate crime incident’ Harry Miller won an important victory

20 Dec 2021

Night workers deserve to be seen Over three million employees do their jobs while the rest of us are asleep

07 Dec 2021

Exploitation is on the road again Truck drivers, cyclists and taxi drivers are suffering from a lack of worker power

24 Aug 2021

Alta Fixsler and the cruelty of our courts Parents are no match for judges and doctors in the UK's legal system

29 Jul 2021

Jacques Maritain: Joe Biden’s favourite Catholic thinker The President seems unaware of the scarier side of the philosopher's Catholicism

21 May 2021

How to end anti-capitalism

31 Mar 2021

The enduring appeal of Marxism

09 Mar 2021

Do the police know the difference between offensive and offence? The Wirral Police have not covered themselves in glory

22 Feb 2021

Remember that you are dust: why Ash Wednesday still resonates As the visible world recedes, and the invisible one seems to move a little closer

17 Feb 2021

How self-help became meaningless

16 Feb 2021

The technocratic tedium of modern politics

28 Dec 2020

Has Labour forgotten its Christian roots? Janet Daby's resignation highlights the party's secular drift

08 Dec 2020

When did the media stop telling the truth?

03 Dec 2020

In the Keira Bell case, the NHS trust had no answers Many open questions remain about puberty-blockers

02 Dec 2020

Pope Francis borrows from the Trump playbook Like the President, the Pontifex prefers soundbites to considered statements

22 Oct 2020

Would you rather be someone else?

20 Jul 2020

Whatever happened to the polymath?

22 May 2020

Do not let a brilliant thinker like Benedict fall silent He remains a valuable source of wisdom in the Catholic world

06 May 2020

The Brits’ love-hate relationship with lockdown This country has a complicated attitude to authority

15 Apr 2020