What was Greenbelt like? 20 home truths about this year’s festival

The new site is a magical place, enchanting and visually spectacular. The look and feel of site resonates so well with what the Greenbelt festival stands for and wants to be.

An Important Announcement About GCSEs

If you are getting your GCSE results today, or your child is doing so, then you need to know - I mean really know, in your bones - that this is not life or death.

Reporting the news

Cole Moreton has covered some of the biggest breaking news stories of our time, from war and crime to sport and royal affairs Recent: HS2, Wonga, the funeral of Stephen Sutton, the floods War: 9/11 minute by minute, the death of a soldier, Marine A Crime: Milly Dowler, Shannon Matthews & Madeleine McCann, Ipswich murders Sport: The Olympics, Paralympics, Godolphin scandal Royalty: The royal wedding, the succession, the nextContinue reading "Reporting the news"

Is God Still An Englishman?

“A lyrical, almost elegiac taking of the nation’s spiritual temperature ... absorbing and colourful ... Moreton can make you laugh out loud, and generates a momentum that has you turning the pages wanting it never to end." Peter Stanford in The Observer Exploring the dramatic changes to British culture, spirituality and national identity over theContinue reading "Is God Still An Englishman?"

On You Go Son

There was a beautiful, touching moment in the FA Cup final that got lost in all the silly nonsense about Arsenal. It was about men and boys, fathers and sons, and not just football. Alex Bruce, the Hull City defender, had given his all for an hour. Sometimes he seemed to be holding Arsenal at bayContinue reading "On You Go Son"