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Yaroslav Walker

Yaroslav Walker is assistant priest at Holy Trinity, Sloane Square, London.

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Keir Starmer stands in the House of Commons and recites an oath from a card held up in front of him.

Why the Prime Minister should swear this new oath

9 July 2024

6 min read

A poltiical pudit opines in a TV studio while his colleague leans in and listens.

Looking upon Labour’s "loveless landslide"

5 July 2024

8 min read

Three piles of ready-meals sit on a shelf. One stack is blue, the next yellow and the third red.

Ultra-processed politics fails to satisfy

25 June 2024

4 min read

A woman throws a milkshake at a politician, the milk is mid-flight in a curved shape.

Democracy and dairy don't mix

5 June 2024

4 min read

A man sits and speaks, against a background of a bookcase.

Dawkins is wrong about the nature of belief

12 April 2024

5 min read

A winning candidate at an election address the audience from a lectern while the loosing candidates look on

The moral sugar high of the protest vote

11 March 2024

6 min read

in an immaculate garden a family play in and around a small swimming pool. Beyond the garden wall, a barracks is visble with crematorium smoke rising beyond it.

The Zone of Interest’s peripheral vision of evil

8 March 2024

4 min read

A robed and seated man, in a speaker's chair talks and gesticulates.

When tradition deserves a break

26 February 2024

3 min read

An irate man holds a mobile phone to his ear while gesticulating with his other hand.

The corrosive effect of profuse profanity

19 January 2024

5 min read

Muppet characters dressed as Dickensian characters stand in a snowy street.

Five Christmas films to revel in

20 December 2023

5 min read

Three children dressed as orange lobsters stand sheepishly on a stage.

In defence of the traditional nativity play

16 December 2023

5 min read

A man in a red shirt slumps in his seat while a computer screen shows a dialogue screen

Lights! Camera! AI-action! - five AI films to watch

1 November 2023

5 min read

A man and a women stand looking in the same direction with concerned faces.

When horror is horrifyingly bad

31 October 2023

4 min read

A family arrive at an overnight stay, enter a room and look around uncertainly

Two terrible travelogues in search of their storylines

3 October 2023

7 min read

School students walk across a playground confidently talking and laughing with us

Back to school on the big screen

7 September 2023

6 min read

A silouhette of an adventurer, wearing a fedora hat, stepping gingerly along a rickety bridge.

No more heroes anymore

13 July 2023

6 min read

Two business men in suits hold coats and briefcases, stand in the sea with their trousers rolled-up above their ankles

Local Hero’s 40-year-old lesson about relationships

28 June 2023

5 min read

A priest holds a cross up in his hand in a chaotic environment while a colleague looks on

Silly fun, serious question

9 May 2023

4 min read

A woman stands in a kitchen diner hold a phone with a cord.

Don't stop believin'

25 April 2023

3 min read

A haggard Jesus is looks ahead during the night.

Cinematic Passions

30 March 2023

6 min read