Today is Father’s Day and so I’ve been reflecting, not just as a father myself, but as a Councillor, School Governor and someone who working in the NHS, cares about the long-term health of our society. In the eddy of public debate about families, rights, welfare, and gender roles, one figure has gradually become politically…

There are times in history when a nation seems to hover at the edge of something…uncertain whether it will stumble, fall, or take flight; Iran feels like it’s at such a point now, and while I don’t claim to know exactly where it’s going, recent events suggest that the ground is shifting under the Islamic…

As we creep ever slowly towards the next general election, there’s a question that lingers beneath the polls and headlines – quiet but persistent: What is the Conservative Party actually for? It’s easy to reach for familiar words, freedom, enterprise, security, but slogans alone don’t stir hearts. They don’t win trust. What’s missing, in my…

:ater this year, I’m planning to walk the St Peter’s Way—a 45-mile pilgrimage route stretching from Chipping Ongar to Bradwell-on-Sea in Essex. It’s not the Camino de Santiago (though I hope to walk that too one day), but it is a path rich in history, faith, and meaning. St Peter’s Way traces some of the…

One of the more subtle tensions I’ve noticed in modern public life is the growing discomfort with faith being visible in civic spaces. Not necessarily hostility—though that does exist—but a quiet unease, as though belief should be kept private, like one’s PIN number or Netflix password. And yet, throughout British history, it was not only…