Russell Crowe criticizes "Gladiator 2" for lacking the "moral core" of the first movie. "It's a really unfortunate example of even the people in that engine room not actually understanding what made the first one special. It wasn’t the pomp. It wasn’t the circumstance. It wasn’t

The King has attended an Advent Service at Westminster Abbey, highlighting themes of Advent ecumenicism, and the experience of persecuted Christians. The congregation included Christian leaders from across the UK and the world; members of Anglican Clergy; and representatives of

Apparently, so-called 'GC' Labour MPs refuse to sign my *cross party* letter simply because a Reform MP was one of the initial co-signatories. Sadly, they'll have to explain that feeble excuse to their voters. Some things are more important than Party politics. #StopthePBTrial

Heroes.

Europeans once knew how to properly respond to the "it is their culture" argument. As Sir Charles Napier told the Raj's subjects when they tried setting widows alight as part of their "culture": "Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my

It is truly impossible to get used to such beauty... Vatican Apostolic Palace, Third Loggia

The puberty blocker trial is grotesque. It will put hundreds of children on the path to infertility and irreversible sexual dysfunction. It is the state-sanctioned chemical castration of innocent children. I’m in the Mail today calling on Labour to stop the Streeting Trial👇🏾

An Afghan migrant has won an asylum case to stay in Britain after answering “I don’t know” more than 150 times during a Home Office interview Shabana Mahmood MP Mike Tapp MP Alex Norris MP Tony Smith CBE Migration Observatory Centre for Migration Control Migration Watch Police Inspectors

There is absolutely no justification for the government and the NHS continuing to kowtow to an extreme ideology that endorses experimenting on children. The evidence is clear that using puberty blockers on vulnerable children is not just dangerous it’s indefensible. Wes

Another “Rave in the Nave” in Canterbury Cathedral is scheduled for February 7, 2026. Despite protests, this will be the third “Silent Disco” event in the cathedral since February 2024. Alcohol is served in a makeshift bar in the nave. It is “strictly an 18+” event.

This is very funny. The implicit point that the liberal elite are misnamed (they mostly aren't very liberal and they certainly are no elite) is amusing and true.

You can just destroy brutalism. 👏

Good. The #streetingtrial must not go ahead.

100 years ago today, the Feast of Christ the King: "When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony." vatican.va/content/pius-x…

Because it isn't Christmas, it's Advent. Christmas begins on Christmas Day and goes on til Epiphany, arguably Candlemas. This is a hill I will die on. And 'Christmassy' is an insufferably childish term, grow up

Sadly, this is exactly right. The NHS now hires one in six of Nigeria’s doctors - and Nigeria needs them. Yet we turn away thousands of kids with A-stars galore who want to be doctors. The waste of talent - of human capital - is quite something. thetimes.com/article/d4534d…

Bonnie Blue being given a Spectator column just reinforces the idea that young people can do tacky things - then get rewarded for it. Whereas young people who work hard don’t get these breaks. It’s leading to this grim “Mizzy Economy” of attention-seeking/ being vile to get ahead

Adding to Britain’s humiliation. A British citizen to be convicted on trumped up charges in a politically motivated trial in violation of a treaty between China and the UK. All less than a month before the PM goes to China. Beijing daring us to do anything about it.

When we win we're going to have little festivals for people to watch these demolitions, with live music and spoken-word poetry by Nicholas Boys Smith and Aaron Bastani x.com/wallaceme/stat…

FWIW, repeating my take on Game of Thrones vs Lord of the Rings, which I gave some years ago: Both are great in different ways. The merit of the latter is obvious; the former is valuable because it offers an extremely bleak vision of a fallen world in which the Incarnation never