Leader: What MPs might do this summer

WHEN PARLIAMENT reassembles on 12 October, MPs will not be asked to account for their 82-day break, which includes 57 working days.

Christianity is losing its privileges

ARE CHRISTIANS in the UK dis­criminated against? Increasingly, we hear of incidents that suggest that they are

100 Years Ago: Man walks on the moon

THERE has never been a Sunday quite like it before. While men knelt on earth in familiar adoration of the Most High

Giles Fraser: If I have to push, I shall push

AS I WRITE, my daughter is cough­ing in her bedroom. She is a pretty bad asthmatic, and often finds it difficult to get her breath.

Faith gives no right to be offensive

TWO OBSERVATIONS from John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty provide essential reference points when considering questions of tolerance and liberty

Paul Vallely: A moral response to terrorism

IS IT morally acceptable to shoot Osama bin Laden? Supposing the al-Qaeda could not

Simon Parke: Never-ending war story

EVEN Napoleon was shocked by what took place on 7 September 1812, near the Russian village of Borodino.

Mission was behind the US vote

MANY RESPONSES to last week’s decision by the Episcopal Church’s General Convention

A challenge for students of the Bible

ESTABLISHMENTS are everywhere — in education, the Church, Marxist analysis, Sloane Square, and infant-school playgrounds



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