Giles Fraser

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

@giles_fraser

Why chess embodies the Christmas spirit My Confession with grandmaster Jonathan Rowson got at what Advent should really be about

09 Dec 2019

Labour plans to squeeze out religious education The manifesto pledge to reconsider RE classes is part of a grander plan

06 Dec 2019

Spare us the bedtime morality tales

05 Dec 2019

What Andrew Sullivan taught me about Michael Oakeshott My latest interviewee has got me excited about an often overlooked British philosopher

02 Dec 2019

Is it immoral to vote for Labour? Corbyn's party has become an incubator for the hatred of Jews

29 Nov 2019

Where in Britain does ‘do God’?

28 Nov 2019

The Manichaeism of the Left will be its undoing The good-or-evil cult of the Corbyn Left will prevent it winning elections

25 Nov 2019

A post-liberal reading list

22 Nov 2019

Reversing Beeching is just the beginning The economic isolation of large parts of the north and rural areas began in the 1960s, with a misguided sense of the future

15 Nov 2019

The battle to believe in God

14 Nov 2019

Leaving ‘Cyberia’: the joy of returning home Is it liberating that I can travel so far yet remain engaged?

12 Nov 2019

Should religious leaders tell you who to vote for? Rabbi Jonathan Romain has written to his congregation urging them to vote tactically against Labour. I'm not sure it's right...

01 Nov 2019

Why do Remainers revile homesickness?

31 Oct 2019

Democratic attitudes to Israel are shifting Listening from Israel, is was hard not to be aware of the gap that exists between US Democrats and the sorts of conversations being had among politicians over here

29 Oct 2019

How capitalism replaced religion Eugene McCarraher's book has been hailed as 'a landmark in American cultural and intellectual history'

28 Oct 2019

Woke students should think again about jazz hands Oxford University students are moving to encourage jazz hands instead of clapping. But is it actually politically correct?

25 Oct 2019

Why shouting ‘traitor’ is a fool’s game

24 Oct 2019

Why I baptised my son without asking him first Liberal arguments against baptism misunderstand the nature of faith...

21 Oct 2019

Is Nick Cave right about Christianity and Woke Culture? In a recent letter, Nick Cave criticised not just religion, but also atheism, and also woke culture in general...

18 Oct 2019

Does the City deserve Chuka Umunna?

17 Oct 2019

Sorry Lady Hale, that’s not quite an answer Lady Hale's response to anxieties about legal overreach didn't convince me...

14 Oct 2019

Why haven’t you seen your friends recently? With our hectic work-lives now increasingly directed by the demands of a 24-hour gig economy, shared time with friends or the old fashioned idea of the family weekend have been destroyed...

11 Oct 2019

Was John Lennon right about love?

10 Oct 2019

Not a soul on the streets for Yom Kippur in Tel Aviv It is not illegal to drive here on Yom Kippur. You can if you want, but people don’t...

09 Oct 2019

When war becomes like mowing the lawn 'Just war' theory had much to say about when it was morally acceptable to start a war, and very little about how to end them...

08 Oct 2019

Why won’t the Islamic Republics criticise China? Both Iran and Pakistan are shamefully silenced by China's economic muscle...

07 Oct 2019

Satire isn’t as powerful as you think

04 Oct 2019

Has Brexit made enemies of us all?

03 Oct 2019

Chinese Christians face real danger Officially, there are over 40 million Christians in China. Unofficially, the figure is probably closer to 100 million and growing...

02 Oct 2019

Who matters more, your family or the wider world? A new paper by Jonathan Haidt shows an intriguing correlation between our moral priorities and our political leanings

30 Sep 2019

Why “Green Growth” is a have your cake and eat it philosophy I believe Greta is correct when she speaks of “fairy tales of economic growth”...

26 Sep 2019

The insidious racism of the Left

26 Sep 2019

The strange phenomenon of MAGA evangelicals The term ‘evangelical’ has been so distorted by American politics that is meaning is now a million miles away from that of its historical formulation...

23 Sep 2019

‘Community’ hits the mainstream with Alain de Botton You know something has really hit the mainstream when Alain de Botton starts talking about it...

21 Sep 2019

New book puts John Rawls in the dock The dominance of Rawls' brand of Liberalism has held back philosophy for decades, according to a Harvard professor...

20 Sep 2019

Who will miss John Humphrys?

19 Sep 2019

A dangerous moment for democracy

17 Sep 2019

Alan Johnson on the dark side of ‘community’

13 Sep 2019

The EU’s soul-destroying rhetoric

12 Sep 2019

Jonathan Franzen’s lesson for the end of the world

10 Sep 2019

What has the EU ever done for us?

09 Sep 2019

Why can’t we talk about Brexit?

09 Sep 2019

Would you clone your dead cat?

06 Sep 2019

The truth about lies

05 Sep 2019

William Blake: my kind of madness

03 Sep 2019

Will Pakistan open talks with Israel?

02 Sep 2019

Why I was wrong about liberalism

30 Aug 2019

You don’t have to be rich to be green

22 Aug 2019

How the Right lost faith in capitalism

15 Aug 2019

Does Trump have a point about video games?

08 Aug 2019

Rochester Cathedral is full of balls

01 Aug 2019

The pointlessness of happy-clappy atheism

25 Jul 2019

Going Home with Wendell Berry

18 Jul 2019

The EU is crippling our NHS

18 Jul 2019

No, my marriage is not a “second holocaust”

11 Jul 2019

Murdoch’s moral vision

04 Jul 2019

Can anyone justify forced abortion?

27 Jun 2019

How cavalier is Boris?

20 Jun 2019

Why I like my politicians to be hypocrites

13 Jun 2019

In praise of incompetence

06 Jun 2019

Who broke the Left?

30 May 2019

How moral is the Chelsea Flower Show?

24 May 2019

How Jeremy Kyle undersold humanity

17 May 2019

Trust conservatives to save the planet

11 May 2019

Where did the Church’s land go?

07 May 2019

The West’s shameful indifference to Christian genocide

25 Apr 2019

What does salvation look like?

15 Apr 2019

Brexit isn’t a crisis of listening

08 Apr 2019

Why I welcome our post-Truth era

29 Mar 2019

Why is punishment so popular?

22 Mar 2019

Is fasting just an affectation?

14 Mar 2019

Why God needs skin in the game

07 Mar 2019

Labour needs a moral revival

28 Feb 2019

Why won’t Remainers talk about family?

22 Feb 2019

Our modern parenting is making monsters

08 Feb 2019

How Parliament disdains the people

01 Feb 2019

A party for the politically homeless

25 Jan 2019

Could Brexit fix our broken politics?

18 Jan 2019

Will our Brexit conflict ever be resolved?

11 Jan 2019

Brexit Britain should welcome more refugees

04 Jan 2019

What Peterson shares with Pelagius

27 Dec 2018

Why the Christmas story matters

24 Dec 2018

How Britain profits from Yemen’s pain

17 Dec 2018

Here come the rogue scientists

06 Dec 2018

Introducing ‘Confessions with Giles Fraser’

30 Nov 2018

How the Church lost its flock over Brexit

23 Nov 2018

Globalisation’s mistaken rule

15 Nov 2018

How moral is mockery?

01 Nov 2018

How do you solve a problem like the Saudis?

26 Oct 2018

Brexit will accelerate the inevitable in Ireland

19 Oct 2018

How Mary Midgley rescued me

16 Oct 2018

Beware the sorcerers of Silicon Valley

12 Oct 2018

Remainers’ immigration hypocrisy

05 Oct 2018

On Twitter, I too become an arse

28 Sep 2018

Two responses to the Holocaust: Israel and the European Union

24 Sep 2018

How post-modernism killed America’s morality

14 Sep 2018

Why does the Pope trot out antisemitic tropes?

07 Sep 2018

Why all work and no play is bad for the soul

31 Aug 2018

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

24 Aug 2018