Marilynne Robinson interview: The faith behind the fiction

03/05/2016 | Reform

Multiple award-winning novelist Marilynne Robinson reflects on two related themes – the importance of religion and the mysteries of the mind.
 Interview by Kay Parris

Writing in the Times shortly after the publication of Marilynne Robinson’s third novel in 2008, … Read More

A good question: Should Britain leave the EU?

22/04/2016 | Reform

One question, four answers

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This is an extract from the May 2016 edition of Reform.

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Niall Cooper: The school holiday hunger gap

22/04/2016 | Reform

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. However, increasing numbers of schoolchildren from low income families begin their day without it.

According to a recent survey for the NASUWT teachers’ union, in the past year nearly three-quarters of … Read More

Interview: Hard love

22/04/2016 | Reform

Terri Roberts, whose son committed a school shooting, talks to Stephen Tomkins

To lose a son in a school shooting is a mother’s nightmare. But how does she cope with discovering that he was also the gunman? On 2 October … Read More

A letter from… California

22/04/2016 | Reform

Robin Wallis reflects on politics, US style

As a British voter, I’ve often thought that US presidential campaigns look preposterously long and wasteful. How much better our
snappy four-week general election showdowns! Now though – living in California, watching this year’s … Read More

Jumble sales of the apocalypse: Ecclesiastical deference

22/04/2016 | Reform

Simon Jenkins on the problem with ecclesiastical deference

I was standing in the crowd outside Westminster Abbey one afternoon in 2010, waiting for the Pope to arrive in his “bulletproof ice cream van” (as one Twitter user had nicknamed the … Read More