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Worm in the bud

Julia Langdon

New Labour’s red rose logo launched in 1986 marked the start of the party’s public relations offensive. It worked for a time, but under Gordon Brown the Government’s dependence on spin and populism at all costs is damaging politics as a whole Free 

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Israel must listen to its friends Free 

As Pope Benedict flies to the Holy Land, an unholy row has broken out over allegations that Israeli forces deliberately or recklessly fired on United Nations personnel and property in Gaza during January's military action against Hamas, killing staff ...

Celibacy or survival?

Secularism - good or bad?
Archbishop Nichols and Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor take opposing views

The two most senior clerics in England and Wales set out on the same day contrasting visions of the threats posed to Christianity by secularism.

In a lecture at ...

Clare Short: ‘Church gave me best of values that have continued into my political and adult life'
Former Labour minister offers candid and fond reflection on her Catholic upbringing

I've chosen as my theme the link between a Catholic childhood and radical politics. I fear this may be slightly self-indulgent and autobiographical but there are some points ...

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‘The impoverished and inarticulate are still not admitted to the “garden” of education’

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 Books and arts

Before the rumble of a distant drum Free 
The Morbid Age: Britain between the wars
Richard Overy

Kingsley Amis said that there were two types of hangover: the physical, characterised by headaches and nausea, and, infinitely worse, the metaphysical, which induced profound feelings ...

       
Bishop Davies: leading or dividing?
Christopher Lamb

He has only worn the mitre for 18 months but Bishop Mark Davies has already made a big impression ...

Without justice, charity is undermined
Abigail Frymann

There comes a time when you have to stop pulling bodies out of the water and go upriver ...

Errant Knights need to show some humility
Elena Curti

Precisely why has the British branch of the Knights of Malta had a huge falling out over ...


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