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Giles Fraser: Is football in a moral bubble? “It wasn’t a sermon,” said Sepp Blatter with a rather grizzly gravitas: “it was a message.” Subscriber only	Faith groups have nothing to fear The Charities Act, with its removal of the public-benefit presumption from religious charities, among others, has caused considerable anxiety for many... Subscriber only	Paul Vallely: Whom to believe: torturers or liars? There is something more than a little distasteful in being lectured to on terrorism by a royal from Saudi Arabia. Subscriber only

Enjoying the crack THE MAN wandered through the old house, a shell of what it once was. Subscriber only	A new chance to heal old divisions ‘Those who like social policy liberal or authoritarian might be confused’ Subscriber only	Goodbye, Natasha. Hello, Trevor LAST MONTH, Natasha Kaplinsky swapped jobs. Subscriber only

Leader: ’Tis a gift to be gloomy THE LINK between the church season and the cycle of nature is tenuous, and sometimes artificial, as at Christmas. Subscriber only	100 years Ago: Shaky start to CEMS THE Conference of the Church of England Men’s Society held last week was in some respects a great success. . . Subscriber only	The Church should stop confirming the young ‘Our present practice is a celebration of conformity, of justification by works of law’ Subscriber only

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