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Latest issue: 6 June 2008
Last updated: 4 February 2012

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Religion and the premier league

Peter Hennessy

Spirituality is usually relegated to the sidelines in British politics. But with Tony Blair faith is back in the game – where, on closer examination, it has been for more than a few post-war British Prime Ministers Free 

 From the editor’s desk


Good news across the pond Free 

The most interesting American presidential primary contest in living memory has drawn to a close, with an outcome that 12 months ago would have seemed truly extraordinary. The young Illinois Senator Barack Obama, whose father was Kenyan and mother ...

42 days are too many

 Texts in full

Prayer for Queen's Diamond Jubilee
Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral issue text

The Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral has written a prayer for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee which will be used at the cathedral's service of thanksgiving on 5 June. The Archbishops of ...

Beware suspicion, inertia and impatience
Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor on the 'enemies of ecumenism'

Two memorable events in my thirty-five years of being a bishop have been the visits of successive Popes here to our country. First of all, Pope John Paul came thirty years ago this ...

 Features

 Columnists

Clifford LongleyClifford Longley

‘The answer to the evangelical preacher’s “Are you saved?” is a laconic “From what?”’

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Christopher HowseChristopher Howse

‘Finding a Mass in Gaelic in Scotland would be harder than finding a kilt in Krakow’

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 Books and arts

The rise of the Asian giants Free 
Rivals: how the power struggle between China, India and Japan will shape our next decade
Bill Emmott

China and India are invoked as bogeys by British politicians seeking to persuade the public that the economy must become more competitive to survive in an age of globalisation ...

       
Goodwin the scapegoat
Elena Curti

There was an old Sixties TV series, Branded, about a disgraced soldier that always began ...

The pain of being a coeliac Catholic
Sr M, guest contributor

"Whoever comes to me, I shall not turn (him) her away" (John 6:37). Many readers will recognise ...

Why the Benedictine family will survive
Christopher Lamb

When do the bad actions of a few completely overshadow the good of the past?
This question ...


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