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Leader: Criticising the clergy? It’s not all bad IT IS possible to say anything about the clergy and for it to be broadly correct. Subscriber only	100 Years Ago: Mackay put into All Saints’ ASCENSION DAY was chosen by the Bishop for the the collation and induction of the Rev. Henry F. B. Mackay to the vicarage of All Saints’, Margaret-street... Subscriber only	Wake up to how people really see the C of E ‘It is folly to continue to do what one has always done, and expect a different result’ Subscriber only

Giles Fraser: When mere anarchy is loosed upon the world There is something very biblical-sounding about the current financial crisis. Subscriber only	History repeats itself in the US Alternative history is the stuff of fiction, but occasionally a historical scenario repeats itself, and we can watch as it reaches a different ending... Subscriber only	It is time for Labour’s moral crusade Harold Wilson believed that “The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.” Subscriber only

Simon Parke: We shall not be moved WHEN a big red bus meets a large white van, in the high noon of rush-hour traffic, who blinks first? Subscriber only	Hope for the ‘Beloved Country’ The eruption of xenophobic gang-violence in South Africa last month was deeply disturbing. Subscriber only	When should Christians speak out? ‘The question becomes what moral orientation underwrites the state’ Subscriber only

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