Jamie Franklin

The Revd Dr Jamie Franklin is the Priest in Charge at Holy Trinity Church, Winchester and the author of The Great Return.

Cruel Labour, the decline of sacred spaces & Clandon Park’s controversial restoration

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This week: Starmerism’s moral vacuum‘Governments need a mission, or they descend into reactive incoherence’ writes Michael Gove in this week’s cover piece. A Labour government, he argues, ‘cannot survive’ without a sense of purpose. The ‘failure of this government to make social justice its mission’ has led to a Spring Statement ‘that was at once

The C of E’s tragic misuse of its sacred spaces

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I am a priest in the high church tradition of the Church of England. The technical term is Anglo-Catholicism, but I come from a very different Christian background. My heritage is non-conformist evangelical – I was baptised in a swimming pool in the summer of my first year of university. St James’s in Piccadilly hosts

Who does Justin Welby speak for?

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Archbishop Justin Welby’s appearance on The Rest is Politics has caused quite a stir in Anglican circles.  For the most part, the Archbishop came across well and gave some very insightful answers when questioned, for example, about original sin and peace-making in war-torn nations. But these good things are inevitably going to be overshadowed by Welby’s answer

Will the Red Wall revolt split the right?

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On the podcast this week: is Rishi ready for a Red Wall rebellion?  Lee Anderson’s defection to Reform is an indication of the final collapse of the Tories’ 2019 electoral coalition and the new split in the right, writes Katy Balls in her cover story. For the first time in many years the Tories are