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Yaroslav Walker

Yaroslav Walker is Vicar of Christ Church, Hampstead.

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At a Christmas party, friend smile, laugh, and collapse in a heap on a sofa.

The twelve days of Christmas TV

24 December 2024

6 min read

Choristers stand and sing in choir stalls in a church

Nine Lessons and Carols needs to be long

23 December 2024

4 min read

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

Christmas countdown day 7: festive films

7 December 2024

1 min read

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

Christmas countdown day 2: nativity plays

2 December 2024

1 min read

A man looks scarily upwards.

Heretic: Hugh Grant’s brilliance wrestles this tranquilized take on holy horror

15 November 2024

4 min read

An 1980s business man looks contemptuously at the camera.

Trump: from apprentice to master of contempt

6 November 2024

5 min read

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

5 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