Sunday, 2 August 2015

Time to "rediscover what it is to be human."

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It’s good to see religious leaders standing up to denounce immorality – especially when for once it isn’t sex they’re talking about. It’s ...
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Saturday, 1 August 2015

A fairy tale with a touch of reality: not sparing the rod, to make the Prince

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Remember all those fairy tales we’d hear as children, with their courageous, handsome princes, who’d suffer a bit (perhaps living as a frog ...
Thursday, 30 July 2015

The traces of that great convenient institution, slavery

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Hasn’t it been interesting to watch the recent incidents in South Carolina? First there were the killings in Charleston’s Emanuel African Me...
Wednesday, 29 July 2015

Labour: the greatest fun for the greatest number

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No one’s ever disappointed by the British Conservative Party. It always entirely fulfils expectations, which it has learned to set painfully...
Monday, 27 July 2015

Not to be missed. NOT to be missed. AND there's two...

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It sometimes shames me to think how much mediocre TV I’ve sat through. So it’s comforting to be able to report on not one, but two great ser...
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Saturday, 25 July 2015

Consolation from religion, in a bad week for politics

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It’s been a bit of a dismal week for politics, so it’s a comfort to be able to turn to some rather better news from the world of religion. ...
Thursday, 23 July 2015

WOMAD and bucket lists

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There are bucket lists and then there are reverse bucket lists. Bucket lists contain the things one feels one really ought to do at least ...