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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... Subscriber only	Giles Fraser: Is Fairtrade the same as fair? The Adam Smith Institute has just exploded a bomb underneath Fairtrade Fortnight. Subscriber only	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... Subscriber only

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. Subscriber only	Simon Parke: Mistaken mergers “DOCTOR, doctor! I keep making false assumptions about people. Do you know what is wrong?” Subscriber only	Don’t wait: plan your funeral now THE FUNERAL began with the words, “Hello, everyone, and thank you for coming.” Subscriber only

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”. Subscriber only	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. Subscriber only	Children can cope when given the chance ‘More than anything else, young people need to know they are loved’ Subscriber only

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