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Leader: A bad war, on bad premises IT IS IMPOSSIBLE to comment on the attack on Gaza without stumbling over assumptions. Subscriber only	100 years ago: Madame Guillotine CAPITAL punishment, which was on the point of being abolished by law in France, was revived on Monday in a revolting spectacle. Subscriber only	Where has the sense of responsibility gone? ‘The act of choosing in itself has no particular value’ Subscriber only

Simon Parke: Light song, heavy burden IT IS crazy. It is like asking a thin, balsa-wood bridge to carry heavy convoys because no other bridge is available. Subscriber only	And God said: ‘Let there be light’ ‘The environment must be appeased, whatever the cost’ Subscriber only	This is not a balanced conflict ‘There is no excuse for contrived neutrality’ Subscriber only

Giles Fraser: Being canny in the raw church The Cathedral Church of the Ascension in Sefwi-Wiawso, in Ghana, challenges all my Western assumptions about the way a cathedral is supposed to look... Subscriber only	Obama ‘does God’ in a mature way AS WELL AS all the other things imputed to Barack Obama, he does, it seems, do God. Subscriber only	Paul Vallely: Celebrate the epochal moment The smart thing now is to play down the Obama moment. Subscriber only

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