Plumstead Letters

Doubtless to the disappointment of our peculiar readership, but because of the day, our theme will be secular affairs, and purely ecc...

The funeral of Lady Thatcher (pictured above) took place this week. The interpretation of her memory has divided commentators over whet...

Legal advice obliges me to point out that the title of this post does not refer to the member for Eastleigh. That gentleman aside, howev...

The substance of yesterday's Cabinet reshuffle will not interest us. The only appointment of note is that of the new Lord Chancellor:...

...who was translated, so that he should not see death: he was not found; for he had this testimony, that he had pleased God...

  The previous government attempted the reform of the House of Lords in two stages, but succeeded only in the first. All that the...

The Great Doctor writes, in a well-known passage: How any man can have consented to institutions established in distant ages, it will...

Government proposals for altering the nature of marriage have been made, which no member of the Church of England can possibly accept. T...

It has been a week of anniversaries. Today, of course, is the 59 th anniversary of the Coronation of Her Majesty the Queen; a strange n...

We congratulate Martin Warner on the announcement of his appointment to be Bishop of Chichester. I spare you the biographical details, e...

There can hardly be much to say about the contents of the Budget itself. Of course, all of us wish to see the prosperity of the country esta...