Patrick Heren
Unturbulent Priest
The memoirs of Cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor
Keeping The Lights On: the Politics of Cheap Energy
British policy is not rooted in economic reality but dictated by the Green Blob. It is time to break a consensus that is costing us dear
To Be a Pilgrim
As a Christian, I was deeply moved by a visit to the Holy Land
Europe Cannot Do Without Putin’s Gas
It will be another decade before the Continent can substitute the product of American fracking for Russian energy piped via Ukraine
Anarchic Interregnum
Ian Buruma’s Year Zero deftly tells the story of 1945: the year the modern world began
Cameron Cannot Win Without Cheap Energy
The PM can’t cut subsidies on renewables without splitting the Coalition. But how else can he trump Miliband’s price freeze?
He Died That Others Might Live In Peace
Visiting the Normandy invasion beaches, I realised the importance
of the campaign in which my cousin was killed fighting for freedom
Bernard Hailstone: The Artist And His Sitter
In 1945, Bernard Hailstone painted my father, the journalist Louis Heren, in the Burmese jungle. This is the story of their long friendship
Burns Bridges
‘Would Robert Burns have supported independence for Scotland? His politics are hard to pin down’
Forget Wind: Time for Britain to Get Fracking
Blinded by climate change dogma, the government seems determined to play down the Lancashire shale gas bonanza
Why Remoaners should back Boris
“Boris, ironically, now offers Remoaners the best chance of a soft Brexit, or at least a sensible one. And to those who want a second referendum—’the people’s vote’—there may even be a chance of that too.”
On the road
“In the summer of 1980, in the grip of some Kerouac-ish fantasy, I opted to hitch-hike from Laredo to New York”
Discovering the Great War of China
A third of a million Chinese labourers helped the Allies defeat the Kaiser, but their huge unsung contribution ended in betrayal