Britain’s forgotten people gave Boris Johnson power to act on their behalf, but he quickly forgot about them.

The only ties which appeared to matter in the Italian south were the immediate links of blood and marriage.

The truth appears to be that Irish Catholicism was easy to abandon, because it seemed so hard to love.

What more can the declining European Church do to assist the rising African Church to bolster the long-term future of Christendom?

There is far more to Waugh than first meets the eye, and no matter how great the gulf between his era and ours, readers who delve into his work can discover not only a supremely gifted literary craftsman, but an extraordinary soul and intellect as well.