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David Goodhart: Don’t blame me for May’s election woes
stephen bush argued in the new statesman recently, with back-handed flattery, that my analysis of british politics based around diverging va...
David Goodhart
Triumph of the box-tickers
the old soviet system of over-bureaucratisation did not die with the ussr; it transmigrated into britain’s higher education system. when i s...
John Charmley
A rare glimpse of Raphael’s path to perfection
raphael: the drawings , a wonderful exhibition at the ashmolean museum, oxford (until september 3), is the first opportunity in britain to s...
David Scrase
Music: Harry Potter set fails to rescue Debussy
for anyone who thinks of opera as a semaphore activity with sweeping gestures, heaving chests and high anxiety, debussy’s pelléas et mélisan...
Michael White
Fearing the knock of the papal police
anna and tranquillo by kenneth stow, yale, £20 in may 1749 anna del monte, a young jewish woman, was escorted by papal police to the roman h...
Jonathan Wright
Word this week
15th sunday of the year is 55:10-11; rom 8:18-23; mt 13:1-23 (year a) the parable of the sower and the seed must rank among the most readily...
Bishop David McGough
Prize crossword 0499
cryptic across 7 are you able to change character finally and pass? (6) 8 journalist left speechless over drain on rainforest land (6) 9 she...
Alun Evans
Harry Mount: You’re all so vain
over the past five years, i’ve noticed an exponential boom in showing off. everyone’s at it. one friend tells me, every time i meet him, “yo...
Harry Mount
Don’t blame me for May’s election woes
A more skilful politician could have appealed to the big new Tory working-class group while also holding enough liberals from the Cameron era
David Goodhart
Anthony Burgess, lapsed Catholic bore
what with all the seminars and symposiums, it has been a busy year for burgess scholars. this week the carnival continued in manchester, whe...
Jonathan Wright
Music: A Billy Budd that hits you like a bus
good music festivals start well but end amazingly, and aldeburgh – the best of music festivals – ended last week with something that amazed,...
Michael White
Fine art: Punk, black tulips and the art of letting go
a slight pall of melancholia hangs in the air at the camden arts centre at the thought of jenni lomax’s last few exhibitions in charge. loma...
Victoria Perez-Fragero
Is there a better way to honour our war dead?
fierce imaginings by rachel mann, dlt, £12.99 rachel mann’s grandfather, sam, owned a brown leather wallet, as “masculine as a shaving brush...
Jonathan Wright
Briefly noted
on living by kerry egan (penguin life, £12.99) . egan, a graduate of harvard divinity school and a hospice chaplain, has written an upliftin...
Staff writers
Prize crossword 0498
cryptic across 5 disastrous blow to harem seeing an apostle (11) 7 sanctimonious press man’s patchily colourful (4) 8 joy’s transport? (8) 9...
Alun Evans
Piers Paul Read: Behind the Iron Curtain with Tom Stoppard
a glittering party was given last saturday by sabrina stoppard in the chelsea physic garden to celebrate the 80th birthday of her husband to...
Piers Paul Read
Anthony Burgess was a gifted writer, but had the theology of a lapsed Catholic bore
When it came to religion, the dazzling novelist was achingly dull
Jonathan Wright
In removing Cardinal Müller, Pope Francis is sending a powerful message
The Pope is making clear there is now only one centre of power at the Vatican
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
Majority of Canadians think religion does more harm than good
The study also found only 29 per cent of Catholics said their religion was important to their political thinking
Catholic News Service
What rock climbing taught me about God
"do you think balthasar will have a lasting influence?” that was one of the questions fr kacper malicki asked on the trail down from the mni...
R.R. Reno
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