Each year, there is a prolonged and increasingly irritating debate as to whether certain films count as “Christmas movies” or not. There are the uncontroversial choices—Elf, Miracle On 34th Street, It ...

From Shakespeare’s sonnets and Donne’s songs (“Tell me where all past times are”) to Wordsworth and Eliot (“All time is unredeemable”), poets have gone in search of lost time. It was this theme—one of ...

On 18 th June 1994, two members of the Ulster Volunteer Force dressed in boiler suits and balaclavas walked into a bar in Loughinisland, County Down and opened fire. Six people were killed. Nobody has ...

Nick Butler is a Financial Times commentator and visiting professor, King's College London. He is a member of the International Energy Agency's commission for urgent action on energy efficiency ...

The big story, following publication of the Makin Report and the resignation of Justin Welby, is clear: a corrupt Church of England knowingly sheltered a terrible abuser, in the shape of John Smyth, ...

Sometime in 1962, a little girl called Anne, who was seven or eight years old, was teased by a mean boy at her school in Pacific Palisades, southern California. “Are you something out of The Twilight ...

The Archbishop of Canterbury resigned over failures in the Church of England’s safeguarding, following the appalling revelations about the abuse committed by John Smyth, who was part of the Iwerne ...

Julian Baggini is a writer and philosopher whose latest book “How the World Eats: A Global Food Philosophy” (Granta) will be published in October 2024 ...