Nicholas Baines

LATEST ARTICLES ( 612 )

• Denis Healey

  

  is dead at 98. He was the best leader Labour never had. He was also the last of a generation of politicians who had a hinterland to their political life. Read more

  Posted on 04 October 2015 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Who Do We Think We Are?

  I am in Liverpool to chair the Meissen Commission for four days. This Commission brings together the Church of England and the Evangelische Kirche in... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2015 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Freedom of Religion

  

  I am about to leave New York City having attended the second meeting of the International Panel of Parliamentarians for Freedom of Religion or Belief. Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2015 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Anglican Communion Futures

  It was announced yesterday that the Archbishop of Canterbury has invited the Primates of the Anglican Communion to Canterbury in January 2016 to discuss the... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2015 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Refugee Crisis: More Than a Quick Fix Needed

  This is the text of an op-ed article I published in the Yorkshire Post this morning:The Prime Minister has been clear that the UK’s response to the refugee... Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2015 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Living on the Edge

  

  This is the text of this morning's Pause for Thought on the Chris Evans Show on BBC Radio 2. Guests in the studio were Caro Emerald, Sally Lindsay (Mount... Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2015 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• If This is a Man?

  There is a fundamental question underlying responses to the current migration and refugee challenge in Europe. In the question behind the title of Primo Levi's... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2015 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Refugee Crisis in Europe

  Actually, the crisis is not in Europe, but in the appallingly destructive states from which millions of people are fleeing.If, as some politicians and... Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2015 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Reimagining Europe

  

  Well, that's the sort of title to set the cat among the pigeons.It sometimes seems impossible to have an intelligent, informed and adult conversation about... Read more

  Posted on 01 September 2015 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• In Defence of the BBC

  The highlight of the annual Edinburgh International Television Festival is almost always the MacTaggart Memorial Lecture. The 2015 lecture was delivered by... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2015 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Getting Dirty

  

  This is the script of this morning's Pause for Thought on the Chris Evans Show on BBC Radio 2 from Chewton Glen. Twelve couples will be driving the twelve... Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2015 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Songs of Praise from Calais

  So, the BBC is being hounded again as if the producers are leftie, hand-wringing imbeciles. Songs of Praise is coming from Calais, and some people don't like it... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2015 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Shopping, Learning and Scapegoating

  Five days into August already and still haven’t got through a single one of the books lined up for the catch-up month. Oh well. Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2015 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Curiosity

  

  This is the text of this morning's Pause for Thought on the Chris Evans Show on BBC Radio 2 with Brian Cox, John Lloyd, Rebecca Front and Nerina Pallot in the... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2015 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Is Your Love Big Enough?

  

  This is the script of this morning's Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2's Chris Evans Show with Sara Cox and guests: Gabby Logan, Josh Gad and Lianne LaHavas. Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2015 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Earthing the Church in West Yorkshire and the Dales

  This is the text of my Presidential Address to the third and final Diocesan Synod of this new diocese held in Harrogate on Saturday 18 July 2015:This is... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2015 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Ten Years After 7/7

  This article was published today in the Yorkshire Post.I remember 7 July 2005 very clearly.I was in my office in Croydon when a friend phoned to say she couldn'... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2015 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Violence and the Future

  This is the text of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme:The Dalai Lama was at Glastonbury yesterday, but not for the music. Twic... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2015 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Has the World Gone Mad?

  This is the script of this morning's Thought for the day on BBC Radio 4's Today programme:Recently I was in Stuttgart and took part in a two-hour discussion wit... Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2015 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• A New Bishop of Richmond

  It has been announced this morning that the Venerable Paul Slater, currently Archdeacon of Richmond and Craven, is to be the Bishop of Richmond in the Diocese o... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2015 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY