Signs of the Times
Advent 2025 Collection of News Articles and Recommended Books
Alongside every edition of our newsletter, we assemble a collection of articles from new and legacy media to help you navigate this time of change. This is our list for Advent, 2025. We’ve assembled articles on Humanity, Islamism, Antisemitism, Changing Church, UK and International news. Scroll down for our Recommended books.
Humanity
Kathleen Stock There’s no dignity in assisted dying: politicians’ bogus compassion
Sarah McCulloch The NHS will misuse assisted suicide. Trust me, I work for it
Alexander Chula The grim reality of assisted dying
Yuan Yi Zhu Labour has never been honest about the assisted dying bill
Tom Chacko Kim Leadbeater’s “safeguards” won’t keep people safe
Rose Lyddon never kill yourself
Martin Evans Isabel Vaughan-Spruce charged under new abortion buffer zone law
Kathleen Stock What progressives won’t say about abortion
Lois McLatchie Miller The Case for Banning Surrogate Motherhood
Jacob Savage The Lost Generation Derailed by DEI
Jide Ehizele Beyond Left and Right: the gift of Black British moral traditions
Glenn Loury How woke and anti-woke erase blackness
Baroness Falkner Labour no longer party of feminism (grooming gangs/trans rights)
Jonathan Hinder MP stop the puberty blocker experiment on children
Suzanne Moore This puberty blocker trial is a wicked betrayal of our children
Stella O’Malley “Biggest Scandal Since Lobotomies” with Tavistock Whistleblower
Bondi Beach, Antisemitism, Islamism
Brendan O’Neill The Bondi Beach shooting was a pogrom
Steve Gallant The Islamist brotherhood inside our prisons - I witnessed it first-hand
Chief Rabbi of South Africa Warren Goldstein speech on Bondi Beach massacre
Hussein Aboubakr Mansour Intifada Globalized
Ben Fordham interview with Tony Abbott on the mass shooting at Bondi Beach
European Newsdesk The Islamic, Arab Genocide in Sudan which the world ignores
Diana Chandler Nigerian leaders verify Islamist persecution of Christians
James Jeffrey The Islamisation of Germany reveals an uncomfortable truth
Ayaan Hirsi Ali The Intifada Comes to Australia
Danny Finklestein Extremists walk among us – and trying to ignore them won’t help
Daniel Ben-Ami What Islamism and the Left Have in Common
Angus Colwell and Max Jeffery The UK’s Islamo-socialist alliance
Tim Dieppe Labour’s Islamic blasphemy code will imperil free speech
Nick Timothy Free Speech and Islam in Britain
Mark Durie Islamic theology and the grooming gangs: report lists 8 factors
James Dorsey The UAE Fuels Moves to Ban the Muslim Brotherhood
Changing Church
Charles Moore Christianity may be back. Let it be the faith of the King, not of Putin
Jide Ehizele Should teachers really be banned for calling Britain a Christian country?
Francis Stewart What Kind of King is Christ?
Jason Swan Clark Who owns Jesus? Tommy Robinson and The Dirty Revival
Edward Pentin Tommy Robinson’s Carol Service Stirs British Christians
Helen Paynter Generosity and Caution
Graham Tomlin What might a working class revival look like?
John Root ‘Putting Christ Back into Christmas’. A Discussion.
Roger Harper Why Christian leaders should give Robinson the benefit of the doubt
Jonathan Sacerdoti “Real Men Cry”: Tommy Robinson on jail, Islam and faith
Jim Chimirie “Christian nationalism” is ordinary citizens asserting their own history
Bob of Speaker’s Corner Interview: Tommy Robinson’s politics in his own words
Aaron Edwards Evangelical Anxiety: Is Tommy Robinson Welcome at Your Church?
Francis Martin C of E bishops reproach Tommy Robinson carol service
Dave Williams/Faithroots “Yes, Tommy Robinson would be welcome in our church”
Stephen McAlpine Help! The wrong type of person is turning up at church!
Fred Sculthorp Meet England’s new crusaders
CV News Pope Leo: supporting human dignity does not mean ‘open borders’
Francis Davis The British Christian Right: A Case Study in Political Capture
Pope Leo Message for World Day of Peace 2026
Tim Wyatt Explained: Gafcon planning to split from the Anglican Communion
Diocese of Westminster +Richard Moth to be new Archbishop of Westminster
Kathryn Armstrong +Sarah Mullally faces abuse case complaint
Bullivant, Mee, Mellor Convert Clergy in the Catholic Church in Britain (report)
Fiona Parker Hundreds of Anglican vicars convert to Catholicism
Madeleine Davies Clergy ‘feel isolated’ and lonely, Living Ministry study concludes
Ruth Graham Orthodox Church Pews are Overflowing with Converts
Georgina Mumford Why Gen Z converts are flocking to the Latin Mass
Vincent Nichols King Charles’ historic visit to to visit Pope Leo
Andreja Bogdanovski 1700 years since Nicaea, will we see Catholic-Orthodox unity?
Isabella Piro Vatican publishes ‘In Praise of Monogamy’
Yonat Shimron Canterbury’s dean wrestles with C of E inaction on LGBTQ+ rights
UK
Helen Thompson/David Runciman How The UK Became Ungovernable (podcast)
David Skelton We are reaching the end of a broken consensus
Philip Cunliffe Globalisation Is Dead: Demographics, Identity & the National Interest
Will Dunn The bond market vigilantes: governments at the mercy of unseen investors
Patrick Maguire Government is not speaking to voters who make populism happen
White/Holl-Allen Electoral Commission: plans to delay local elections are illegitimate
Dominic Green Has an English Civil War Already Begun?
Benedict Tetzlaff-Deas UK needs to be ready for war with Russia, warns top general
Letter to the Times Former British Army heads attack Starmer on human rights law
Rowena Mason UK government’s child poverty strategy
Kemi Badenoch Labour’s plan to lecture schoolboys will not protect women and girls
David Goodhart Can Shabana Mahmood Stop the Boats?
Rakib Ehsan The Case for a 2026 Emergency Census in England (report)
Gordon Rayner The devastating memo that revealed bias in BBC reporting
Laura Beveridge Venture capitalists are privatising Britain’s allotments
Diane Taylor The new underclass: life as a food delivery worker
Mary Harrington Polanski’s Green Party degrowth dystopia will cannibalise Britain
Maurice Glasman Why it is good to be warm: energy as a common good
Sienna Rodgers Westminster is waking up to the birth rate crisis
Common Good Foundation UK population changes
James Rebanks Labour is crushing Britain’s farmers Who else will feed the nation?
Richard Partington Blunkett warns Britain’s youth may become ‘lost generation’
Sienna Rodgers Unison: Labour Has “Done Very Little For Working People”
Aris Roussinos Starmer: the last of the technocrats & the collapse of the British state
Shabana Mahmood Racism will rise unless we tackle immigration fears
Annabel Denham Lord Glasman interview: ‘Shabana is like Elizabeth I’
Jonny Ball Shabana Mahmood’s moral mission
Maurice Glasman Frank Field: A Very English Saint (Memorial Lecture)
Jeremy Warner Reeves’ increase in welfare spending is dangerous
International
General Sir Richard Barrons We’re all in danger: Putin’s brutal invasion 3.5 years on
Anthony Lloyd War diary: the defiant and the damned on Ukraine’s front line
Hamish de Bretton-Gordon Getting Britain ready for war is only hope of peace
Archie Earle Susie Wiles: Trump believes Putin wants all of Ukraine
Katja Hoyer Germany is not ready to lead Nato forces in Europe
Luke de Pulford The UK is falling into China’s trap - our institutions are exposed
Roger Boyes Construction bill for Gaza and Syria massive but Saudis could pay
Heather MacDonald Zohran Mamdani will destroy New York
Rod Dreher Antisemitism Among Generation Z Washington DC Apparatchiks Is Real
Ben Shapiro defines boundaries between conservatives and populists (speech)
Sohrab Ahmari JD Vance interview on American identity, Ukraine, Israel, Pope Leo
The White House National Security Strategy of the USA (Nov 2025)
Ed Conway The Messy Reality of Trump’s Trade War (documentary)
Joel Kotkin Brutality of ICE crackdown erodes Trump’s gains among Latinos
Michael Lind Infinity Is the Wrong Number of Immigrants
Ariel G. Ruiz Soto New Era of Immigration Enforcement under Trump 2.0
Edward Feser The Catholic fight over immigration
Danny Fortson Australia’s mobiles ban for under-16s has the tech barons on edge
Thomas Fazi Europe’s new war on privacy: ChatControl violates fundamental rights
Brendan O’Neill Paul Coleman on Europe’s Free Speech Emergency
Thomas Fazi Will we ever escape the ECHR? Rule by judges protects elite interests
Ketrin Jochecová Frederiksen and Starmer push to water down ECHR
Michael Shellenberger Civilizational Suicide - Europe’s Demand For Censorship
Recommended Books
Kathleen Stock Do Not Go Gentle: The Case Against Assisted Death
Philip Pilkington The Collapse of Global Liberalism: And the Emergence of the Post Liberal World Order
Ryszard Legutko The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies
Berna Durcan, Hannah Vaughan-Spruce, Stephen Bullivant After Secularisation: The Present and Future of British Catholicism
Mark Elsdon Gone for Good? Negotiating the Coming Wave of Church Property Transition
Andrew T. Walker & Kristen Waggoner The Unchained Word: A Public Theology of Free Speech
Cynthia Bourgeault Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening
Jean Daniélou Prayer as a Political Problem