Giles Fraser

Giles Fraser is a journalist, broadcaster and Vicar of St Anne's, Kew.

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Giles Fraser is a journalist, broadcaster and Vicar of St Anne's, Kew.

Secularisation is leading Britain astray

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Why we need World Cup nationalism

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The return of Israel’s vicious far-Right

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Britain needs a voting revolution

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Hunger now stalks Britain

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What Giorgia Meloni is hiding

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The Queen shows the democracy of death

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Can Liz Truss tell a story?

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Do we need civil disobedience?

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How woke is Nietzsche?

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The good news from Gaza

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Why is the Church obsessed with gay sex?

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The narcissism of modern weddings

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Keir Starmer is no saint

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Where is the moral case for abortion?

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Will bishops stop the Rwanda plan?

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How pasta made me a Terf

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The injustice of the Jubilee

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Is your garden imperialist?

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How the Church attacks its own

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I will never give up on Chelsea

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Why Bishops should be political

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Have I abandoned my flock?

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Does Prince Andrew deserve forgiveness?

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Atheists have an evil problem

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German pacifism is dead

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Putin is perverting Jewish history

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Putin’s spiritual destiny

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Boris must eat the rich

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The Church’s war on the clergy

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We’ve forgotten how to die

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Trashy Tories should read Roger Scruton

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It’s time for Boris to go

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Desmond Tutu’s divine egotism

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There’s nothing wrong with a festive fight

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Secular Christmas is a lie

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Why Boris is scared of God

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Don’t blame the Church for terrorism

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Will the Tories pay for their sins?

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Our Queen’s finest moment

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Why we need religious conflict

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God save us from trendy vicars

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The Church is acting like the police

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How Labour became the nasty party

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Why fat pills are bad for you

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Only chaos can redeem the Church

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Who wants to live forever?

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Does Jordan Peterson believe in God?

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The Church is on the brink of revolt

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Latin is the language of the enemy

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Why I’ll never vote Tory again

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Some politicians deserve to be mocked

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The Church is abandoning its flock

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My shamefully silent Church

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Matt Hancock’s hypocrisy wasn’t the problem

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Nationalists make better lovers

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Will the Left ever defeat fascism?

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Why liberals are scared of football

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What is Meghan afraid of?

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The EU’s most shameful betrayal

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My marriages aren’t the state’s business

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Political posturing won’t save Israel

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Why do schools treat dyslexics like fools?

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The myth of lockdown suicides

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Is my Christianity a disguise?

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How the Left gave up on freedom

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Cancel culture won’t save you

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Stop gloating about Brexit

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When conversion is abusive

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Prince Harry is a Freudian dream

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Our narcissistic view of death

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Jewish privilege is a myth

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Why is the Church so woke?

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We’ll have to shut some empty churches

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Sneering scientists won’t win over anti-vaxxers

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Scepticism is not always the answer

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Don’t call Israel an apartheid state

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How my drinking lost its virtue

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Why chaos is good for Boris — and Brexit

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Why my church doors are staying open

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Hope rises from the rubble of my church

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Maybe Scrooge was right

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We don’t need more spreadsheet vicars

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Jeremy Corbyn is nothing without Labour

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Jonathan Sacks spoke to us all

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Boris Johnson doesn’t get God

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Why bishops shouldn’t stay out of politics

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Bad taste is killing good wine

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Can the Church solve its paedophile problem?

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Why lockdown is a moral mess

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Why Covid can’t cancel Christmas

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Why the new inquisition came for David Hume

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Has lockdown left you with existential angst?

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Futurists forget that we have bodies

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Exposing the fake God

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The proud history of Tory socialism

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The neoliberal revolution within the Church

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WATCH: The Christian case against ‘morality’

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Church philistines have got high culture all wrong

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Have I become a bourgeois cliche?

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What has human sacrifice got to do with Twitter? Ask René Girard

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Even excommunication is better than cancellation

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The Hagia Sophia is for prayer, not pictures

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How HR is strangling the Church of England

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The Church shouldn’t hide its sordid past

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Digging up King David in the Israeli mountains

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Was my diabetes a symbol of moral failure?

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Is there anything left to bind us together?

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The C of E has forgotten the power of the parish

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How cancel culture makes liars of us all

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Trump’s biblical power play

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These bullying bishops aren’t brave

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Netanyahu’s trial is a test of Israel’s democracy

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Apocalyptos miss the heart of the Christian story

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How travel narrows the mind

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‘Stay alert’ is not precise — but it is meaningful

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How much is a human life worth?

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Zoom takes away a piece of our souls

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Let priests pray in their churches

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The C of E has retreated to the kitchen

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Why coronavirus is a laughing matter

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The tragic hubris of modern city planning

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Don’t let the bean-counters abolish our army regiments

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Are we ready for the next coronation?

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Do I have a moral duty to lose weight?

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What does it mean to be a liberal?

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My eulogy for Boris

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Nicky Gumbel’s Confessions

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Where is God in this Covid horror?

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Virtual Seder was almost as good as the real thing

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The Queen calls time on the snowflake generation

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GPs should not play God during Covid

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The Magnificent Seven is a post-liberal idyll

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What Emmanuel Levinas would have to say about Zoom

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Secularists have reached a new low

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The bright side of death

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Zoom eucharist felt like an episode of Masterchef — and I loved it

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Christ the Redeemer is the perfect antidote to Lennon’s ‘Imagine’

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Coronavirus has locked my congregation out

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Jonathan Sacks: why does Richard Dawkins single out Jews?

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What we can learn from the disgraced

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The malicious anticlericalism of Lord Adonis

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How coronavirus plays into Trump’s hands

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Proportional representation has trapped Israel in a ghost story

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Pubs, not cafes, are the home of public conversation

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How Jean Vanier abused my trust

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Please, Rory, let us sleep in peace

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Bloomberg the nerd won’t beat Trump

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Churches are closing down — I won’t let mine be one of them

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Sex-obsessed conservatives are wrong about families

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Advice for the BBC’s next director-general

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St Hilda’s demolishes its chapel, and the humanists crow

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I don’t miss the nastiness of the Left

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Office sports chat doesn’t ‘exclude’ anyone

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I disagree with the Church about sex, but I’m not leaving

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How to argue with a racist

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The sixteenth century roots of Gwyneth Paltrow’s candle

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No, Guy Verhofstadt, citizenship is not a Netflix subscription

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Raise your glass to Roger Scruton, the terroiriste

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Meghan’s liberalism ignores the importance of family

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Freud would know why we’re all workaholics

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Let’s hear it for the Left-wing regressives!

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Are human rights overtaking democracy?

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What’s the point of civil partnerships?

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Our modern parenting is making monsters

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Is it immoral to let children believe in Santa?

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How I became ‘Tory scum’

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Labour’s problems all start at university

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Can our shattered nation survive this election?

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Why chess embodies the Christmas spirit

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Labour plans to squeeze out religious education

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Spare us the bedtime morality tales

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What Andrew Sullivan taught me about Michael Oakeshott

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Is it immoral to vote for Labour?

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Where in Britain does ‘do God’?

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The Manichaeism of the Left will be its undoing

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A post-liberal reading list

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Reversing Beeching is just the beginning

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The battle to believe in God

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Leaving ‘Cyberia’: the joy of returning home

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Should religious leaders tell you who to vote for?

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Why do Remainers revile homesickness?

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Democratic attitudes to Israel are shifting

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How capitalism replaced religion

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Woke students should think again about jazz hands

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Why shouting ‘traitor’ is a fool’s game

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Why I baptised my son without asking him first

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Is Nick Cave right about Christianity and Woke Culture?

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Does the City deserve Chuka Umunna?

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Sorry Lady Hale, that’s not quite an answer

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Why haven’t you seen your friends recently?

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Was John Lennon right about love?

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Not a soul on the streets for Yom Kippur in Tel Aviv

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When war becomes like mowing the lawn

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Why won’t the Islamic Republics criticise China?

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Satire isn’t as powerful as you think

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Has Brexit made enemies of us all?

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Chinese Christians face real danger

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Who matters more, your family or the wider world?

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Why “Green Growth” is a have your cake and eat it philosophy

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The insidious racism of the Left

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The strange phenomenon of MAGA evangelicals

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‘Community’ hits the mainstream with Alain de Botton

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New book puts John Rawls in the dock

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Who will miss John Humphrys?

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A dangerous moment for democracy

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Alan Johnson on the dark side of ‘community’

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The EU’s soul-destroying rhetoric

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Jonathan Franzen’s lesson for the end of the world

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What has the EU ever done for us?

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Why can’t we talk about Brexit?

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Would you clone your dead cat?

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The truth about lies

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William Blake: my kind of madness

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Will Pakistan open talks with Israel?

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Why I was wrong about liberalism

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You don’t have to be rich to be green

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How the Right lost faith in capitalism

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Does Trump have a point about video games?

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Rochester Cathedral is full of balls

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The pointlessness of happy-clappy atheism

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Going Home with Wendell Berry

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The EU is crippling our NHS

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No, my marriage is not a “second holocaust”

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Murdoch’s moral vision

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Can anyone justify forced abortion?

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How cavalier is Boris?

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Why I like my politicians to be hypocrites

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In praise of incompetence

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Who broke the Left?

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How moral is the Chelsea Flower Show?

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How Jeremy Kyle undersold humanity

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Trust conservatives to save the planet

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Where did the Church’s land go?

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The West’s shameful indifference to Christian genocide

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What does salvation look like?

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Brexit isn’t a crisis of listening

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Why I welcome our post-Truth era

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Why is punishment so popular?

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Is fasting just an affectation?

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Why God needs skin in the game

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Labour needs a moral revival

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Why won’t Remainers talk about family?

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Our modern parenting is making monsters

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How Parliament disdains the people

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A party for the politically homeless

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Could Brexit fix our broken politics?

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Will our Brexit conflict ever be resolved?

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Brexit Britain should welcome more refugees

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What Peterson shares with Pelagius

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Why the Christmas story matters

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How Britain profits from Yemen’s pain

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Here come the rogue scientists

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Introducing ‘Confessions with Giles Fraser’

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How the Church lost its flock over Brexit

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Globalisation’s mistaken rule

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How moral is mockery?

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How do you solve a problem like the Saudis?

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Brexit will accelerate the inevitable in Ireland

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How Mary Midgley rescued me

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Beware the sorcerers of Silicon Valley

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Remainers’ immigration hypocrisy

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On Twitter, I too become an arse

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Two responses to the Holocaust: Israel and the European Union

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How post-modernism killed America’s morality

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Why does the Pope trot out antisemitic tropes?

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Why all work and no play is bad for the soul

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Jesus was a ‘somewhere’. Paul was an ‘anywhere’

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Why we need more superstition

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Consumer greed is making suckers of us all

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Is Jeremy Corbyn anti-Semitic?

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A book that will turn your ideas upside down

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Liberal smugness will destroy the Left

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Are capitalism and Christianity really compatible?

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Why citizens of nowhere will never get the World Cup

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There are no shades of grey on the culture war frontline

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Christian Democrats should back Brexit not Brussels

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It’s not very Christian to preach bad news about gay people

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Liberalism has broken us – we need a new party to call Home

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The oppressive individualism of human rights

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Are Heredi Jews ahead of their time?

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There’s more to atheism than the dim-witted Dawkins brigade

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What Peterson shares with Pelagius

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Why don’t we care about Christians in the Middle East?

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Why I’m unrepentant about my trip to Syria

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Gangs thrive when community dies

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Why Islam is the future of anti-capitalism

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That mock crown of thorns for the King of the Jews was an early warning sign. The whole Jesus movement was (and is) alien to politics.

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Why is Ofsted doing the secularists’ bidding?

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Why you can’t rely on the news media to understand… the religious

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Why has secularism got religion in its sights?

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Just how ‘religious’ are Trump’s evangelicals?

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Free minds: Rod Dreher – an American conservative who realised liberalism was the enemy

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Why does everyone have it in for the Puritans?

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The positive-thinking brigade leaves me feeling gloomy

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Don’t mock the parochial – it matters where we come from

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The trouble with tackling loneliness

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For severe attacks of capitalism, take two pills three times a day

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I’m on Israel’s side but banning its critics from entering the country is self-defeating

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Remainers can apply for a world passport today. But will there ever be a world government? No.

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Under-reported: The growth of Christianity in China

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