The call by UK evangelical leader Pete Greig for the church to “prepare for war” illustrates the need for greater discernment when prophesying about politics.

The English divide is not just between nationalism and multi-culturalism but two rival nostalgias for late Christendom. One is idolatrous; the other fails to apprehend global change.

As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter

Is the university crisis as much about management choices as it is about external pressures? It's time to go public about dodgy data and misleading claims.

As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter

At last week’s HE debate, a host of Oxford-associated grandees made the usual points while the sector continued to melt down, says Andrew McRae

There is very little evidence of humanity in the process used by the University of Exeter to cut its academic staff. But hope is found in steadfastness and solidarity, mercy and love.

The cuts that have been proposed at the University of Exeter demonstrates the crisis of purpose in Britain’s universities. Should not universities also be places to prepare for "eternal dwellings"?

The university says it is consulting with colleagues over "limited and specific potential changes".

Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, who recently stepped down from two senior administration posts, was serving as a CIA officer during the dispute.

A penetrating look into the unrecognized and unregulated links between autocratic regimes in Central Asia and centers of power and wealth throughout the West...

Speaking to the University of Exeter Grand Challenges on 1 June 2026, I try to find hope in the exposure of and response to some of the darkest stories of global politics.

Research Seminar: Conducting Research on Illicit Finances & Professional Enablers This seminar will provide participants with insights into contemporary research on illicit financial flows, financial ...

The problems with Britain’s universities are systemic and deep-rooted, not just local or contingent. Yet political and...

A book on the MAGA New Right demonstrates the pitfalls of ideas-first political thinking and how conservative Christian intellectuals have been corrupted by fantasies of power.

The Far Right feeds on fear. In a guest post, Carolyn Whitnall shows how it also relies on the power of "positive thinking". True hope begins in everyday acts of lament and compassion.

“The Pope is weak on crime.” At first glance, one struggles to make sense of it. How can it be that this is something that the American President has said – published, indeed – in an attack on Leo XIV...

It is not the immorality or strategic incompetence of Trump that will bring him down but his emptiness. It is the Christian apocalyptic task to recognise and expose it.

Contrast it with George Bush senior’s victory in Kuwait

How might the gospel’s account of Holy Week cast light upon the war in Iran and give us hope that it is the Prince of Peace who is driving history?

John Heathershaw argues that we need a legal conception of kleptocracy fit for the kind of transnational inter-elite relations and illicit activity that we see in the era of Epstein, Putin, and Gulf m...

John Heathershaw argues that we need a legal conception of kleptocracy fit for the kind of transnational inter-elite relations and illicit activity that we see in the era of Epstein, Putin, and Gulf m...