Justin Welby
The Spectator’s Notes
Jane Portal, as she was when she worked for Winston Churchill, died last week, aged 93. Lady Williams of Elvel,…
The Archbishop of Canterbury has risen to the occasion
Archbishop Justin Welby has done a good job of relating the Queen’s virtues to her Christian faith. This is no…
My phone call with God
Got slightly wrecked over the bank holiday weekend and had hoped to kind of glide through the early part of…
The Church of England is missing a trick on climate change
Justin Welby urges us, echoing Deuteronomy, to ‘choose life’, so that our children may live. It is an apt use…
Letters: Don’t overlook the Trumpisms
Canterbury tales Sir: Having opened my copy of The Spectator upon arrival in the post, I read your article ‘Welby’s…
The man behind Justin Welby
The man behind the Archbishop
Why can’t Justin Welby praise a Tory?
Justin Welby is having a holiday and people are unhappy about it. He plans, in May, to take a three-month…
The Amazon fires are as much a political story as an environmental one
We do not yet know which 100 citizens will make it to the ‘Citizens’ Assembly’ to be chaired by the…
Dangly earrings, hugs and controversy: here comes the new Bishop of Dover
East Kent is bracing itself. Its Church of England clergy are enjoying their last quiet months before Rose Hudson-Wilkin arrives…
Justin Welby: Catholic or Protestant – who cares?
Justin Welby is working in Thomas Cranmer’s old study in Lambeth Palace, a room that looks as if it hasn’t…
… and an awesome beak
The Enigma of Kidson is a quintessentially Etonian book: narcissistic, complacent, a bit silly and ultimately beguiling. It is the…
Portrait of the Week: David Cameron’s tax troubles and the Archbishop of Canterbury’s paternity
Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, after spending a week parrying questions about his late father’s investment fund Blairmore, suddenly…
An object lesson in PR from David Cameron and Justin Welby
I don’t think there is a Royal College of Public Relations, but if there were, it should teach a course…
The Archbishop of Canterbury and the shifting meaning of ‘illegitimate’
‘The Archbishop of Canterbury has discovered he is the illegitimate son of Sir Winston Churchill’s last private secretary,’ Charles Moore…
'The tide is turning': Justin Welby interviewed by Michael Gove
An interview with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby
The Lord’s Prayer is no more offensive than Jeremy Clarkson or deodorant
There was a time not so very long ago when the most common complaint about Christmas was that it had…
God’s management consultants: the Church of England turns to bankers for salvation
Justin Welby wants the C of E to focus on growth – and he’s enlisting bankers to help
Why are there so many fat people in pictures of food banks?
Were you aware that the famous actor Andy Garcia was born with a foetus growing out of his left shoulder?…
Thank heavens for Justin Welby!
For decades, interventions of the Archbishop of Canterbury in national debate were like a sporadic bombardment of small pebbles against…
Storm warning: the world economy’s October troubles aren’t over yet
October is always a turbulent month, and I’m feeling uneasy about this one. The FTSE100 index, which looked set to…
Assisted suicide is too close to murder to be legal
How amazing to have two former Anglican archbishops, George Carey of Canterbury and Desmond Tutu of South Africa, supporting Lord…
Compassion is fashionable again. Thank the Pope
There was something poignant about the decision of L’Wren Scott, Mick Jagger’s American girlfriend, who committed suicide in New York…
How I became editor of The Spectator - aged 27
Thirty years ago this Saturday, I became editor of this magazine. In the same month, the miners’ strike began, Anthony…
Rod Liddle: Neknominations – this is what the internet is for
Wouldn’t it be boring if everyone behaved much as you behave? If everyone expressed themselves similarly? Let a thousand flowers…
Dear Justin Welby – here’s how you can really take on Wonga
I’ve been in the pulpit again, this time to salute the centenary of the death of Charles Norris Gray, a…
