Charles Moore

United Kingdom

Columnist at The Telegraph

Writer at The Spectator

Columnist @telegraph, writer @spectator and authorised biographer of Margaret Thatcher

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Cultural Christians already know what they are missing from religion: faith

6 days ago | yahoo.com | Charles Moore

Being a Christian, I suppose I should prefer Christian jokes about religion, but I often find the Jewish jokes have more bite. Here is one. The boy who is about to be bar-mitzvahed approaches his instructor with a troubled expression: “Rabbi, I have to tell you something important. You see, I don’t believe in God.” The rabbi stares at the sad youth with scorn, and replies, “Do you think He cares?”Even as a joke, it is unimaginable that a Christian priest could speak like that.
Cultural Christians already know what they are missing from religion: faith

6 days ago | telegraph.co.uk | Charles Moore
Who’d be a bishop today?

2 weeks ago | spectator.com.au | Charles Moore

In his recent interview with our American edition, The Spectator World, Donald Trump is reported to be faced by a picture of Franklin D. Roosevelt whenever he sits at his Oval Office desk. ‘A lot of people say, why do you have FDR?’ Trump says.
Who’d be a bishop today?

2 weeks ago | spectator.co.uk | Charles Moore

Text size Small Medium Large Line Spacing Compact Normal Spacious Comments In his recent interview with our American edition, The Spectator World, Donald Trump is reported to be faced by a picture of Franklin D. Roosevelt whenever he sits at his Oval Office desk. ‘A lot of people say, why do you have FDR?’ Trump says. His answer is: ‘Well, he was a serious president, whether you agree with him or not.’ He does not state what he particularly likes about FDR, though one might guess that his...
The more things change, the more they stay the same

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Charles Moore
Trump does not understand the true greatness of America. The US must not turn inward

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Charles Moore

As a general rule, educated people tend to believe in free trade. Uneducated people tend to doubt it. As an educated person myself, and the descendant of 19th-century free-trade campaigners, I am a keen free trader. The educated are often puzzled by the doubts of the uneducated because our central belief is that free trade helps poorer people get richer. Competition lowers costs and increases opportunity for people without capital.
Trump is giving us a taste of our own medicine

3 weeks ago | spectator.com.au | Charles Moore

It seems the US State Department sees an impediment to free speech as an impediment to free trade with Britain. It cites the recent incident in which a woman, Livia Tossici-Bolt, was arrested for holding up a sign as she prayed alone and silently near a Bournemouth abortion clinic. It says it is ‘monitoring’ the case.
Trump is giving us a taste of our own medicine

3 weeks ago | spectator.co.uk | Charles Moore

It seems the US State Department sees an impediment to free speech as an impediment to free trade with Britain. It cites the recent incident in which a woman, Livia Tossici-Bolt, was arrested for holding up a sign as she prayed alone and silently near a Bournemouth abortion clinic. It says it is ‘monitoring’ the case. Many here will dismiss this intrusion as a typically loopy product of the Trump era. In a sense, it is.
Britain's betrayal of Jimmy Lai repeats an old mistake

3 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Charles Moore
Has the Assisted Dying Bill been killed off?

4 weeks ago | spectator.co.uk | Charles Moore

The reported decision to postpone the implementation of the Assisted Dying Bill until 2029 might, one must pray, turn out to be a form of legislative euthanasia. MPs, looking at the process, began to resemble a patient who, having first of all declared his wish to end it all, then begins to worry that it will not be as simple or painless as he had been led to expect.