The Vatican ‘Family synod’ and the sex abuse scandal that could engulf Pope Francis
Pope Francis’s three-week Synod on the Family began on Sunday. Most of the 279 ‘Synod Fathers’ are senior bishops, many…
Pope Francis’s US tour has been a triumph. His conservative critics must be in despair
Apologies for the picture quality (it’s from live coverage by ABC News), but this shot of Pope Francis cracking up…
There’s a good reason why there are no great female composers
Last week a 17-year-old girl forced the Edexcel exam board to change its A-level music syllabus to include the work…
Corbyn wins: a delicious humiliation for the liberal Left
The groans that must be coming from the newsrooms of the Guardian and the BBC right now! With a descant…
Pope Francis gets it right: today’s changes to the marriage annulment process are bold and brave
Pope Francis today made sweeping changes to the procedures by which Catholics get their marriages annulled – that is, receive…
The Times on Pope Francis and abortion: the worst piece of religious reporting ever?
The headline on page 33 of today’s Times reads: ‘Repent and we will forgive abortions, Pope tells women’. It’s a…
Pope Francis drops a bombshell: Catholics can receive absolution from dissident SSPX priests
Pope Francis, unpredictable as ever, has just announced that during the forthcoming ‘Year of Mercy’, Catholics can receive absolution from…
BBC ‘environment analyst’ explodes on Twitter as BBC presenter mocks Met Office’s climate prophecies
Climate change is the subject of a complex debate in which, increasingly, experts disagree with each other. Nearly all of them believe in…
Swedish nationalists plan a gay pride march through a Muslim area, hoping for trouble
I haven’t seen this reported in the press anywhere, but in Sweden the right-wing nationalist Sweden Democrats are staging a…
Tragedy on the American Left as liberals discover that Bernie Sanders isn’t awesome
For the last few months, young American liberals have been writing love letters to a white-haired 73-year-old former mayor from Vermont who…
Brave Cardinal Pell challenges Pope Francis’s dogma on climate change
‘The Church has got no mandate from the Lord to pronounce on scientific matters.’ In that one sentence, Cardinal Pell…
Connie St Louis, the woman who brought down Sir Tim Hunt, faces questions over her CV. Where’s the media coverage?
Connie St Louis, director of City University’s Science Journalism MA, is the woman who brought Sir Tim Hunt’s career crashing…
The Pope and climate change: Francis is slapping his conservative critics in the face
Pope Francis’s encyclical on the environment comes down firmly on the side of the global warming consensus/lobby (delete according to…
Roll of shame: MPs who back homeopathy fan David Tredinnick for chair of Commons Health Committee
David Tredinnick is an Old Etonian Tory MP whom I met when he was a mature student at Oxford. He…
The hounding of Cardinal Pell: things Australia’s liberal media don’t want you to know
The attempt to implicate Cardinal George Pell in the Ballarat child abuse scandal is a virtuoso display of score-settling by…
The white-knuckle terror of being driven by a dopehead
‘Hidden menace of the drivers high on drugs,’ says the headline in today’s Daily Mail, revealing that – according to…
Gay marriage will split the Catholic Church
Ireland, for so long the most overtly Catholic state in Western Europe, has voted for gay marriage by a stupendous margin –…
Charles’s ‘spider letters’: The Guardian falls for the pseudoscience of graphology
The Prince of Wales’s ‘spider letters’ are out today – his letters to government ministers written or annotated in his distinctive…
Porn and video games: more hysteria about ‘rewiring brains’
Here we go again. What effect do you think watching porn and video games have on young men? Yup, they…
Why Ukip will descend into sectarian chaos
Yes, yes, I know it’s supposed to be ‘unfair’ that Ukip ended up with only one MP while securing 13…
Has the Guardian just called it for Cameron?
The Guardian/Observer website is running with this story headed ‘Britain set to face weeks of political paralysis after election poll’.…
Former Communist spy: KGB created Catholic liberation theology
The respected Catholic News Agency has published an interview with Ion Mihai Pacepa, a former general in Romania’s secret police who…
Why you should listen to the great pianist who gave in to the Nazis
Alfred Cortot (1877-1962) was in my opinion the greatest pianist in recorded history. If I had to give one reason…
The passing of a magnificent contrarian
I see my Spectator colleagues have beaten me to it and republished a 1989 profile of Richard West, one of the…
I know I shouldn’t ask this, but is cocaine really that addictive?
Cocaine addiction is a dreadful thing. I’ve seen it so many times: bright, once-pretty people with washed-out grey faces who…
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