Tim Stanley
@timothy_stanley
Columnist and sketch writer for the Telegraph. Moral Maze, Thought for the Day and spotted in the Spectator. Cavalier who owns a Cavalier!
My book is out in the UK on October 14! "Whatever Happened to Tradition? History, Belonging & the Future of the West”. Combining history & philosophy, I argue that tradition is beautiful & necessary, that fidelity to our past is key to future happiness. bloomsbury.com/uk/whatever-ha…
I need to make space, I NEED to get rid of some books, but every time I look at a book, I can think of an airtight case for keeping it. I'm like the Johnnie Cochran of books.
Anyway, on to the next war! I'm hoping for Cuba (lovely weather, cigars). Knowing my luck, it'll be Belarus. youtube.com/watch?v=mufPyc…
Fr Ray Blake buried today: low Mass, Old Rite, no choir, no homily, as modest as the man himself. I kid you not, as the coffin was laid before the altar, the SatNav on someone's phone went off. It said, "you have arrived at your destination." RIP.
We sat down with Suella Braverman to talk about the ECHR, immigration, crime... & Alfred the Great. Suella agrees with me: British values are not articulated but lived, and you can be unaware of 9th century history and still part of the family. youtube.com/watch?v=s6Yssa…
Total number of MPs attending Commons question on Birmingham bin strikes crisis? 15. Of whom 4 are Gaza independents, one is Corbyn. I get that it's regional, but it's more important and interesting than this turnout suggests.
Thrown out of my west London home by an interior design team and suffering from a mild ear infection, I’m inspired by the incredible true story “The Salt Path” to walk the entirety of the Exmoor coast path
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Nice juxtaposition of Bible as conservative v Bible as revolutionary, as per @holland_tom On the left, God rewards upholding the custom of hospitality. On the right, Jesus disrupts it.
Super piece on Kentish saints… tho St Edith doesn’t make the cut. A local nun with a healing well (ailments of the eye), she met the Devil and thumped him. ncregister.com/features/littl…
I've never disclosed this, but in between his election and installation, Justin Welby invited me to Lambeth Palace for a coffee (which ended up including an almost private Holy Communion in the crypt). He told me that he considered the Reformation the greatest tragedy for the…
A courageous and compelling speech, though I can’t agree with all of it! (The Reformation is why we’re in this mess).
A courageous and compelling speech, though I can’t agree with all of it! (The Reformation is why we’re in this mess).
I gave a speech today in an empty chamber. It’s about the need for a Christian restoration.
What does this even mean?
Absolutely right that 16 and 17 year olds should be allowed to vote in elections. They are part of our present as well as our future.
An apparent Israeli strike has hit Gaza’s only Catholic Church. Among the killed: a 60 year old janitor, an 84 year old woman. Among the injured, a disabled child. I await the military justification for this. Another mistake? Or perhaps a Hamas tunnel under the font.
Two minutes with a King who has no idea who you are and asks if you've come far. Imagine staking an entire political career and philosophy around that - but for many MPs, that really is all it's all about. Do, say, vote for whatever nonsense gets you that gong.
We are run by very strange people, many of whom have cheerfully sacrificed the country for a knighthood.
"The state endangered lives. It covered it up. It then paid millions to resettle the victims. This is Watergate-level stuff, but Westminster won’t call it so cos it’s an indictment of a system & philosophy – open borders, forever wars – that elites love." telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/…
This morning Pope Leo XIV offered the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass ad orientem for the Carabinieri in the Chapel of their station in the grounds of Apostolic Palace of Castel Gandolfo 📸: Vatican Media