Failing with the best of them

It was a little moment of epiphany on one of those interminable Sunday train journeys, when the world — or the part of it that runs on rails — slows to...

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Giles Fraser: Is Fairtrade the same as fair?

The Adam Smith Institute has just exploded a bomb underneath Fairtrade Fortnight.

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Baptism should not involve perjury

In all my years as a parish priest, I advocated that “it is desirable that every minister having the cure of souls shall normally administer the sacrament...

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Can Poles integrate in the UK?

When Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor travels to Warsaw next week to confer with the Bishops’ Conference of Poland, much will be at stake.

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Simon Parke: Mistaken mergers

“DOCTOR, doctor! I keep making false assumptions about people. Do you know what is wrong?”

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Don’t wait: plan your funeral now

THE FUNERAL began with the words, “Hello, everyone, and thank you for coming.”

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Leader: Taking a lead from Bargain Booze

IN NOVEMBER last year, Off Licence News lamented that not a week went by without “yet another attack on alcohol and alcohol retailing”.

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100 years ago: Novelist as historian

A CORRESPONDENT sends us a cutting from a North country newspaper, giving an account of a lecture by the Rev. R. H. Benson.

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Children can cope when given the chance

‘More than anything else, young people need to know they are loved’

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