Comment

Columnists and commentators focus a Christian lens on the news stories of the day. Comment is one of four key themes covered by Seen & Unseen.

Article
  1. Comment
  2. Education
A check list shows 'thank you' in different languages.

Cutting language learning is a moral failure

Jonathan Rowlands
Learning someone’s tongue is a deeply humble and empathetic act
6min read
Article
  1. Belief
  2. Church and state
A backbench MP stands in an almost empty chamber and speaks

Danny Kruger, Christian values, and the dangers of thin religion

Graham Tomlin
Thick or thin? Christianity’s role in Britain’s cultural crossroad
6min read
Article
  1. Church and state
  2. Comment
A media pack await a press conference in a street.

After Southport: how to communicate amid tragedy, rumour, and riot

Stuart Haynes
Handling the media in the aftermath brings dread, discretion and dignity
5min read
Article
  1. Character
  2. Comment
A band and audience are back lit against a stage.

Why reducing the voting age is a mistake

Graham Tomlin
Adolescence should be a safe space to be a bit daft
4min read
Column
  1. Comment
  2. Community
A colourful row of buildings in an Italian port.

Portofino’s real prisoners are not the beggars it is banning

George Pitcher
The economic elite can’t exclude the poor from their privileged bubbles
4min read
Snippet
  1. Comment
  2. Economics
Three Manchester United footballers with their arms around each others backs.

From transferring footballers to AI talent, we over-value each other

Jamie Mulvaney
Building our value on cashflow crumbles our self-esteem


3min read
Article
  1. Comment
  2. Football
A victorious women's football team celeberate.

The 50-year injustice at the heart of women’s football

Jonathan Rowlands
Now we need to do these two things to put right decades of disparity
5min read
Review
  1. Books
  2. Care
A visualised glass head shows a swirl of pink across the face.

We don’t have an over-diagnosis problem, we have a society problem

Henna Cundill
Suzanne O’Sullivan's question is timely
7min read
Article
  1. Comment
  2. Film & TV
Tim Davie in a blue suite smiles

BBC scandals turn the spotlight on its lost mission

George Pitcher
When it's good it's great but when it's bad it’s Babylonian
4min read
Article
  1. Comment
  2. Community
Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron in front of flags.

Our problem with immigration is not open or closed borders but the decline of Christianity

Graham Tomlin
Christianity doesn’t provide immigration policy, but it could still unite our communities
5min read
Article
  1. Biology
  2. Comment
A bee keeper hold honeycomb to the light

There’s a sting in the tail if we construct lessons from nature

Julia Kendal
Don’t be like the bees
5min read
Snippet
  1. Comment
  2. Digital
Tennis line judges stand and lean forward with hands on knees

Line judges replaced by robots? You cannot be serious!

Matt Lewis
Wimbledon is about more than efficiency, it’s about humanity.
3min read