Nicholas Baines

LATEST ARTICLES ( 612 )

• The Sins of the Fathers

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme.The other day I was browsing the German political journal Der Spiegel... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2019 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• 9/11

  This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2 with Zoe Ball.I know I’m getting old, but I have to admit: forgetting dates isn’t an... Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2019 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Mind Your Language

  This is the text of a commissioned article published today in the excellent Yorkshire Post.Anything can happen. A statement of the obvious, maybe, but it is als... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2019 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• What Price Truth?

  This is the text of an article commissioned by the Church Times and published last Thursday. I have been asked why I don’t target Jeremy Corbyn – the simple... Read more

  Posted on 08 September 2019 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) Bill: Speech

  This is the Hansard record of my speech in the debate in the House of Lords on Thursday. As usual, it’s only afterwards that you think of a better way of... Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2019 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Speaking in Code

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme:This year marks the hundredth anniversary of what is now called GCHQ... Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2019 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Brexit Letter

  Twenty five diocesan bishops signed an open letter that was published today. It was slightly overtaken by the news of the Prime Minister’s intention to... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2019 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Dominion

  

  Coming to Headingley for the third day of the third Ashes Test match was as much an act of hope (if you are English, that is) as optimism. Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2019 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• TV, Politics and Accountability

  This year’s MacTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh Television Festival was given by Dorothy Byrne and it is brilliant – sharp, incisive, important and very funny. Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2019 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Holiday Books

  

  This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought with Zoe Ball on BBC Radio 2.I’m off on holiday soon – with my eldest son and his wife and their two youn... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2019 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Letter from Ireland

  The Bishop of Clogher in Ireland published in the Daily Telegraph today an open letter to the Prime Minister. John McDowell’s diocese straddles the border... Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2019 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Democracy and Debate

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme:This weekend I was a little surprised to read in a German magazine tha... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2019 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Poetry

  

  This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought on the Zoe Ball Show on BBC Radio 2:Well, Glastonbury seems to have gone well. I caught up with bits of i... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2019 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Diocesan Synod Address

  This is the basic text of my Presidential Address at this morning’s Leeds Diocesan Synod in Harrogate.I am very grateful to my colleagues – and especially Bisho... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2019 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• D-Day 75 Years on

  This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought with Zoe Ball on BBC Radio 2:Only four years, almost to the day, after tens of thousands of allied... Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2019 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Heritage Rail and Young People (House of Lords)

  This is the basic text of a speech in the House of Lords today.Lord Faulkner of Worcester: QSD on the report of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Heritage... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2019 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Amazing Grace

  

  This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought with Fearne Cotton on the Zoe Ball Show on BBC Radio 2:You know what it’s like when you get a song runnin... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2019 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Endings

  The is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme this morning:I’m not sure if a confession this early in the morning is... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2019 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Facing Reality

  This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought on the Zoe Ball Show on BBC Radio 2:I’ve got two sons – both of them well grown up now (that’s what I tel... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2019 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Que Sera Sera

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme:I was checking my diary for this week when the news came in of the... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2019 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY