Nicholas Baines

LATEST ARTICLES ( 599 )

• Brexit: Agencies (House of Lords)

  This is the text of my speech moving Amendment 93 to the EU (Withdrawal) Bill on the last day of Report Stage in the House of Lords. Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Celebrating the Commonwealth

  This is the basic text of my sermon at the Commonwealth Service (with civic and multi faith attendance) at Leeds Minster this afternoon:Finally, beloved,... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Whose Reich?

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme (broadcast from Berlin and focusing on the impact on Germany of... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Martin Luther King: 50 Years

  This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2’s Chris Evans Show with Sara Cox:I have seen the Promised Land.50 years. I remember... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• It’s Not a Kinda Magic (Easter Day 2018)

  

  This is the basic text of this morning’s sermon at Bradford Cathedral:John 20:1-18Do you realise that in the eyes of many, many people, by coming here this... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• For the Clergy

  

  This is the basic text of my Maundy Thursday sermon at Wakefield Cathedral when the clergy gather to reaffirm their ordination vows:2 Corinthians 4 (with... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• The Facts of the Matter?

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme:Remember this? “Humpty Dumpty to Alice in ‘Through the Looking Glass:... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Questions and Answers

  This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2’s Chris Evans Show:I was getting off a bus in London late last night when a bloke... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Skripal, Russia and Poison

  It is obvious why Russia is being blamed for arranging the apparent attack on former double agent (Russian military intelligence office and MI5 spy) – there is ... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• The Language of Leaving

  

  In her great book of essays The Givenness of Things Marilynne Robinson makes an observation that struck me:Whenever there is talk of decline – as in fact there... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• What’s It All For?

  This is the text of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 2’s Today programme, following yesterday’s debate in the House of the Lords on the EU... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• The EU (Withdrawal) Bill: Debate in the House of Lords

  This is the basic text of my speech in the House of Lords during the Second Reading of the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill:My Lords, many speakers will attend... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Flagging It up

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme:News, by definition, is unpredictable. Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Number Your Days

  This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2’s Chris Evans Show:I was on the train down from Leeds yesterday – at some unearthly hour... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• The View from Space

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme:Earlier this morning India launched a rocket to deliver a satellite... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• BBC – Religion Under Review

  This morning the BBC is publishing a review of its engagement as a public service broadcaster with religion. I warmly welcome the report and the way the review... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2017 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Closer to the Light

  This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2’s Chris Evans Show:A few years ago I found myself in the Foreign Ministry of a Middle... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2017 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• The Normalisation of Corruption

  A cursory glance at social media makes it clear that there is huge concern – across political and cultural divides – about the degeneration of public life,... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2017 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Bob Dylan: The Gospel Years

  

  A few weeks ago I interviewed author Clinton Heylin on his new book Trouble in Mind in which he recounts Bob Dylan’s Gospel years (1979-81). Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2017 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Nothing Wednesday

  This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2’s Chris Evans Show:What day is it today? Wednesday? Just ‘Wednesday’? Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2017 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY