Leader: reasons to spend fatly in the lean years

WHEN the General Synod debates the financial crisis in two weeks’ time, it will focus on the global picture

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Time to remake personal and collective culture

‘This is systemicfailure, born out of ideological deficit’

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100 years ago: Blessed Jeanne d’Arc

THE PROCESS of canonising the Maid of Domremy reached another stage last week, when the Pope ratified her claim to be entitled “Blessed”.

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Giles Fraser: Cry out for mercy in the grey zone

By the 18th century, Cape Coast Castle had become the centre for the British colonial government of the Gold Coast of Africa

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Being under- and over-confident

I don’t suppose the Pope has an email address — at least, if he does, it will, like so much else in the Roman world, be a closely guarded secret.

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The BBC should not be impartial

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Days before the Gaza ceasefire, I joined thousands of people in Trafalgar Square to protest against the invasion of Palestine. We...

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Simon Parke: A hero to my newsagent

SHOCK NEWS. My newsagent’s favourite politician is not Barack Obama, but Narendra Modi, the Chief Minister of the Indian state of Gujarat.

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An honest, vulnerable President

‘He has talked and written openly about his failures’

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Public suffering, but without grace

RICHARD NIXON came to David Frost bearing a burden

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