Just as we find we were even more attached to Queen Elizabeth than we realised, so we find ourselves even more loyal to her successor than we expected.
It is a reversion to the old tribal idea: this people good, that people bad. It challenges the notion that we are all individuals, responsible for our own behaviour.
In his new book, Jeremy Black traces the history of Britain’s relations with the Continent, and how it bears on the Brexit debate.
Crucially, opinion is not just divided between Leave and Remain, but between the Province and the mainland.
A decision like leaving the EU had billions of causes: some of those were set in motion by happenings centuries ago, but none pre-determine what happens today.
Reports of the Church’s decline ignore worldwide growth, even in such apparently unlikely places as Iran, and throughout much of the Muslim-majority world.
The challenge to a Party that holds not a single seat in Merseyside.
The Archbishops of Canterbury and Westminster endorsed the Government ahead of last night’s vote. Is the persecution of their faith the reason?
It was the rise of the Liberals, and the decline of the city’s Protestant tradition, that did for the Party.
Many of our proposals can be introduced quickly. Some might take 12 – 15 months. We don’t believe anything will take longer than two to three years.