Book Review: The Builder’s Stone: How Jews and Christians Built the West – And Why Only They Can Save It

Review by Jonathan Hoffman (Associate, Oxford House)[1]: Melanie Phillips, The Builder’s Stone: How Jews and Christians Built the West – And Why Only They Can Save It (Wicked Son, 2025), pp. 320. I was delighted when my old school friend, and Oxford House Associate, Jonathan Hoffman drew to my attention Melanie Phillips’ latest book, The Builder’s […]

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Book Review: The Ledger

Review by Major General Rob Thomson, CBE, DSO: David Kilcullen & Greg Mills (With a Foreword by Rory Stewart), The Ledger – Accounting for Failure in Afghanistan (Hurst Publishers, 2021), pp. 368. I am delighted to be able to post this fine review by my good friend and Senior Associate of Oxford House, former Major […]

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China in Pakistan: Will CPEC build or destroy a nation?

The Nobel Prize-winning British American economist Sir Angus Deaton’s (b. 1945) The Great Escape: Health, Wealth and the Origins of Inequality (Princeton, 2013) is a trenchant critique of a world where inequality prevails and advances in medicine are not matched by equality in care or provision. To Deaton, health and wealth are almost always connected; […]

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Christian minority rights in Pakistan: tragedy, truth, loyalty and triumph

Setting the scene Life and faith are mysteries. We enter and experience both through factors beyond our understanding and control. Our parentage and DNA, our appearance and abilities, our predispositions and cultural formation are among life’s ‘givens’, it seems as if by chance. We sometimes – no, often – wish it were not so. Hence, […]

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‘Geopolitical warming’: tragedy, responsibility and Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Recent events in Israel and Gaza have shocked the world. No reasonable, moral person can feel anything but outrage and disgust. To Jews, here is another ‘massacre of the innocents’; to Palestinians of every kind, another reason to hate and hope against hope to flee Gaza or build a new homeland. To many outsiders, here […]

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