Freddy Gray, Author at Catholic Herald

Freddy Gray

The ‘Catholic vote’ is an elusive thing. Which way will it go?

May 15, 2020

“At this moment, I would like to thank the Evangelical and religious community,” said Donald Trump, accepting his nomination at the Republican National Convention on July 21 2016. “Because, I’ll tell you what, the support that they’ve given me, and I’m not sure I totally deserve it, has been so amazing and has had such

Diary: I wanted to weep when the Mozart of Wimbledon lost

July 18, 2019

Like so many others, I spent my Sunday afternoon trying to watch the Cricket World Cup and Wimbledon finals at the same time. I tried channel-hopping. I tried double-screening, switching gaze between television and iPad, but couldn’t focus on either game. I ended up just watching the tennis, and it broke my heart. I’ve long supported Roger

‘My filth crackles as He seizes hold of me’: an interview with Sister Wendy Beckett

December 27, 2018

The Copthorne Tam Hotel is a tall, nondescript tower-block that sheds a thick shadow across the back of High Street Kensington station. The reception area is predictably uninspiring, at once bustling and hushed. Large revolving doors endlessly funnel somnambulant guests in and out. Suddenly, a rotation ushers someone different into this soulless lobby: a tall,

Washington Diary: Something strange is happening to Donald Trump

December 13, 2018

After President George HW Bush's death, Donald Trump did a convincing impression of a sombre statesman

Arts essay: The man who laughed at liberal pomposity

May 24, 2018

One of the best moments of my life was getting my first rejection email from Tom Wolfe. I’d sent a gushing fanmail asking him to write an article for the Spectator. He declined in style. Now, typically, I can’t find the message in my inbox. I just remember Wolfe’s tremendous manners, the crazy trademark panache

Freddy Gray: Why I stood up for Toby Young

January 18, 2018

You’ve probably read about my colleague Toby Young. Last week, Toby decided to resign from the board of a new quango, the Office for Students (OfS), after a huge and splenetic media campaign against him. Toby had made a number of rude remarks on Twitter and, in his two decades as a journalist provocateur, written

So who’s praying for a Trump victory?

August 25, 2016

Polls suggest Trump is deeply unpopular among Catholics. So why do evangelicals find him so appealing?

Freddy Gray: So who’s praying for a Trump victory?

August 25, 2016

‘This will be an election that will go down in the history books for the evangelicals, for the Christians, for everybody of religion,’’ said Donald Trump last week. “This will be maybe the most important election the country has ever had.” Trump was speaking to a gathering of evangelicals in Florida, and supplicating his audience

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