Sep 17, 2016 | Uncategorized
First published in The Hedgehog Review, September 2nd, 2016 The new Ben-Hur is bad. As scathing reviews have noted, this implausible remake is treacly, pietistic and rushed. Replete with gooey flashbacks and clunky transitions, it begins with the famous chariot race,...
Sep 17, 2016 | Uncategorized
First published by The American Conservative, March 3, 2016 I’d only been in the U.S. for about six months when it arrived in the mail, slipping out of the Kroger coupons. I unfolded the full-page advert to find a series of amazing offers, but the one that really...
Jan 24, 2016 | Uncategorized
First published by The Spectator on-line on 20th January 2016 Given how apocalyptic the predictions were, Anglicanism’s make-or-break meeting about issues of human sexuality last week proved something of a damp squib. The Anglican Communion was supposed to be rent...
Sep 27, 2015 | Uncategorized
First published in The Guardian online Thursday 10 September 2015 The most tragic repercussion of ageism is older people seeing themselves as a burden: a burden on their family, a burden on society, a burden on the communities they have forged or the institutions they...
Jul 2, 2015 | Uncategorized
First published in The Hedgehog Review on 2nd June 2015 As if there weren’t enough mighty causes, age-defining campaigns, momentous movements coming to a head last week. As if the public square were not already deafened by the cacophony of acrimony, war cries, whoops...
Jun 11, 2015 | Uncategorized
The Vaccines, Dream Lover Kendrick Lamar I Mumford & Sons, Ditmas Imagine Dragons, Bet Your Life Florence & The Machine, Long & Lost Foy Vance, At Least My Heart Was Open Sufjan Stevens, There’s A World (Neil Young cover) Ike & Tina Turner, Too...
