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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?

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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 speech Obama needs to makeMichael Sean Winters Opponents of Barack Obama’s pro-choice policy are to picket one of America’s leading Catholic universities when it awards him an honorary degree this month. Here a Catholic commentator and Democrat supporter offers a speech for the President to silence his critics...	Ghetto’s own servant of the peaceIan Thomson As a former British colony, it is not surprising that Jamaica is predominantly Protestant. But amid its rainbow of religions a Catholic priest has spent more than three decades bringing calm and balm to the victims of poverty and violence on the troubled Caribbean island...
Keys to the Iraqi deadlockMichael Gunn Life in Iraq is uncertain for its ancient and frequently persecuted Christian communities, but the disparate groups have at least one thing in common – a commitment to the idea of a unified and multicultural country, and the peace it could bring...	First Communion folliesSarah Mac Donald and Isabel de Bertodano Irish parents are being urged to curb excessive expense on elaborate costumes and parties that has grown up around the First Holy Communions of their children as priests and politicians alike say that show business has no business at the altar...

Lift up your voicesAndrew Henderson The standard of music in Britain’s Catholic parishes has not always compared well with that achieved in their Anglican counterparts. But there are many useful lessons that can be learned, in terms of both the internal and external resources that can be drawn on...	Hype or hope?Jennifer Swift A major fillip for stem-cell therapies was claimed last month when a deal was cut by London University scientists and drug giant Pfizer. But can we really benefit when the main motive for research is money, not medicine?...
From old to newDaniel McCarthy The Prayer After Communion this Sunday focuses on the baptised faithful, says Daniel McCarthy, those who the Lord has filled with the heavenly mysteries, and who continually pass into newness as they mature in the Christian life...	Laying bare the LegionJason Berry Revelations that the founder of Legionaries of Christ led a double life has led to a Vatican inquiry into the order. Can it survive after the scandal that has beset it?...
By the light of the moonN. O'Phile

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Nicholas Pyke

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

Robert Mickens

Letter from Rome

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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 ...

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