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it is often said that the test of first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain...

Georgia L. Gilholy

the windsors at war: the nazi threat to the crown alexander larman weidenfeld & nicholson, £25.99, 432 pages when the king and queen ret...

Alexandra Lloyd

the los angeles dodgers have announced a relaunch of their "christian faith and family day" following a recent controversy over the guest li...

Hugh Kerr

tell me good things:  on love, death and marriage  james runcie  bloomsbury, £12.99, 224 pages marilyn imrie died in august 2...

Margaret Nicholson

a long-lost chapter of biblical text has been discovered nearly 1,500 years after it was initially written. according to the study published...

Hugh Kerr

mary magdalene: a cultural history philip c almond cambridge university press, £30, 386 pages ‘will the real mary magdalene please stand up?...

Alexander Faludy

the old faith of england is this year’s focus of the sixteen, finds serenhedd james . a wise, sharp-eyed owl peers out from the programme of...

Serenhedd James

one of the great novels on sickness and death is thomas mann’s the magic mountain. i have been reading it because of a norfolk-based interes...

sarah sands

the irish government plans to hold a series of referenda in november 2023 to further alter the irish constitution as the next stage in its r...

Dubhaltach O Reachtnin

a bull has the ability to charge at you at up to 35mph. there are 10 40  possible moves in chess. if a cue ball hits half of the intend...

Karl Gustel Warnberg