A look at The Spectator’s Easter broadcast offering |
How religious is Britain? Last week the Bible Society was forced to pull their report into the ‘Quiet Revival’ of Christianity, which was published last year, after YouGov found their polling used faulty data. This report gained significant attention and was the basis of much inquiry in 2025 – including from The Spectator, through our Holy Smoke podcast.
The Spectator has a number of broadcasts this Easter that explore religious faith in Britain. The first is our weekly Edition podcast, where this week Lara Prendergast is joined by Anglican priest Fergus Butler-Gallie, the historian Tom Holland and former Supreme Court Justice Jonathan Sumption. They start by discussing our latest cover article, written by Madeline Grant. Maddie says that the next election may be the most religious in Britain for generations.
Fergus takes listeners through a quick history of explicitly religious British........