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Tributes continue for popular swimming coach Paul Johnson
Remember the Republican response to Obama's speech that day? One of the most famous ones was Bobby Jindal's reaction. He just buoyed the stimulus plan that was just approved by the Congress.
The Catholic Herald
Discussion of the Best Hits of the 90s Selection
when people tell me that our president has delivered his 7th state of the union speech recently, i always correct their mistake and tell it ...
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High Quality Templates
when people tell me that our president has delivered his 7th state of the union speech recently, i always correct their mistake and tell it ...
The Catholic Herald
High Quality Templates
when people tell me that our president has delivered his 7th state of the union speech recently, i always correct their mistake and tell it ...
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Macron has more in common with Trump than he'd like to admit
Trump's populism and Macron's haughty liberalism are, in substance, not significantly different
Dr David Cowan
Vatican-backed journal attacks American conservative Catholics
US conservative Catholics have formed an 'ecumenism of hate' with Evangelical Protestants, Civiltà Cattolica has claimed
Staff Reporter
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...
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