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Paul Vallely: When a leader has crossed a line HERE IS a very modern dilemma. Subscriber only	Giles Fraser: Why equality belongs with freedom The radicals who met in my church in 1647 demanding the franchise for all men, irrespective of birth or wealth, were soon thwarted by the machinations... Subscriber only	Respect the sacrifice and the irony Most of us would agree that war is brutal and horrible. Few would instinctively add that it is also ironic Subscriber only

Leader: The 28-day limit is long enough THE GOVERNMENT has not, so far, committed itself on extending its right to hold terrorist suspects longer than the present 28 days without trial. Subscriber only	Britain’s Christian Right has reason to feel blue ‘David Cameron’s Conservatives are largely an irrelevance in moral politics’ Subscriber only	Thaxted Cathedral? THERE is something, perhaps, a trifle unseemly in the rivalry among towns for the honour of becoming Cathedral cities. Subscriber only

Simon Parke: Throwing a sheep WILL YOU or will you not join? Welcome to the Valley of Decision. Subscriber only	Soldiers, war, killing, and peace STILL the killings go on in Iraq, and some important questions are being asked by the public. Subscriber only	A stronger, clearer case is essential ‘If unchecked, the cuts will alter chaplaincies fundamentally’ Subscriber only

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