Graham Tomlin is a former Bishop of Kensington, and Director of the Centre for Cultural Witness
Some time ago, I found myself sitting at a dinner opposite a Labour peer. We chatted over various things as the evening proceeded. Just before we were getting up to leave a new topic came up. “I am a convinced campaigner for assisted dying,” she said. “As a bishop, I suspect you’re not. Why don’t
Marwa al-Sabouni is a Syrian architect who watched her home city of Homs destroyed during the Syrian conflict between 2011 and 2014. Out of that experience, she penned an intensely moving and haunting account of what the idea of home means. She writes of how the dwellings we live in are intimately connected with our own
In all the coverage of Prince Philip’s death, one word in the tributes keeps grabbing my attention: stoicism. The Spectator wrote that ‘Prince Philip epitomised a very British stoicism; the Times said ‘the royal marriage was built on stoicism, the odd clash and a deep sense of understanding’. The New Yorker meanwhile claimed that ‘with Prince Philip’s death has
