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.

Essay
  1. Attention
  2. Comment
A woman looks down slightly, smiling.

Sarah Everard: she was 'exactly like us'

Belle Tindall
An anniversary of anguish deserves the miracle of our attention.
5min read
Article
  1. Comment
  2. Morality
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

Yaroslav Walker
We shouldn’t give politicians bloody noses over insurmountable single issues.
6min read
Article
  1. Comment
  2. Freedom of Belief
A large, modern cubiod building with a series of thin external pillars is seen from low down against a sunny blue sky

Beyond the glitz: the Gulf States and belief

Andrew Thompson
Religious tolerance amid the skyscrapers.
7min read
Article
  1. Comment
  2. Politics
A TV roundtable discussion with five people against a backdrop of Parliament.

Claims of institutional racism let politicians off the hook

George Pitcher
They need to be mindful of something else baked into our institutions.
4min read
Article
  1. Comment
  2. Loneliness
a young man looks pensive as he answers a questuon while sitting in a fancy room.

What Bobby Brazier, Jo Marsh and Eleanor Rigby have in common

Belle Tindall
A public health campaign asks influencers if they are lonely.
5min read
Article
  1. Comment
  2. Politics
A young woman in a blue suit stands at a wooden box in a parliamentary debating chamber looking upward while speaking.

Politics needs some deep stirring emotion

Henna Cundill
In politics, the struggle between our reason and desire is a fair fight.
5min read
Article
  1. Comment
  2. Freedom of Belief
A burnt out motor cycle and car stand amid charred debris in a dusty compound.

We’re ignoring Nigeria's hellish underbelly

Chris Wadibia
Why the West averts its gaze from anti-Christian violence there.
4min read
Essay
  1. Comment
  2. Justice
A pupil in a classroom looks around and into the camera.

Dignity: why people matter

Charles Foster
How dignity underlies our ethics and law.
5min read
Column
  1. Comment
  2. Film & TV
A doctor in blue scrubs stands looking exhausted.

It's a miracle that ITV's drama-docs tell gospel truth

George Pitcher
What we need to ask of the well told stories that move us.
4min read
Article
  1. Comment
  2. War & peace
A woman stands at the back of an armoured military vehicle, the door of which is open.

Letter from Lviv

Iryna Dobrohorska
Loss, resilience, and a hope one day to count blessings not missile intercepts.
3min read
Article
  1. Comment
  2. Politics
A robed and seated man, in a speaker's chair talks and gesticulates.

When tradition deserves a break

Yaroslav Walker
Upsetting a convention caused uproar, so is it right to break with tradition?
3min read
Article
  1. Comment
  2. Freedom of Belief
Rows of soldiers march away from the camera, two in the back row turn their heads back.

What the Gaza conflict and the asylum seeker row have in common

Graham Tomlin
Iran’s persecution drives its Christians here. This is their story.
7min read