“SPIKY ENOUGH to draw blood and sweet enough to give you a sugar rush”, is how Dan Hitchens describes his new venture, The Pineapple, a newsletter now available on the Substack online platform: https://dan hitchens.substack.com/

Hitchens – son of Peter, nephew of Christopher – has the family knack for fluency and conviction. But even when he is commending the “magnificently unoriginal” Humanae Vitae and lamenting the dark night of confusion and muddle that has descended on the Church he’s never less than brilliant company.