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How Dante shows up wokeness

the text came 45 minutes before year 1 started on 2 september. “just to let you know that sasha is now haruto (japanese name). we tried it o...

Wanted: backers for a religious thriller

in march 2020, with lockdown imminent, an old friend called laurie berg rang me to ask if i would read a synopsis for a religious film or pe...

The Thin End of the Wedge

the spectre of so-called “assisted dying” is rearing its head again, as the british medical association controversially changes its stance t...

SB8: President Biden defends abortion

this is what the second catholic president of the united states had to say about the texas decision to restrict abortion in the state. “rath...

Chaplain 'cancelled' over pro-life views vows to remain in post

a priest “cancelled” by the university of nottingham after he expressed pro-life opinions about abortion and assisted suicide has assured st...

Potshots at Winston miss the mark

churchill’s shadow: an astonishing life and a dangerous legacy by geoffrey wheatcroft bodley head, £25, 545 pages _________ ‘history with it...

Holding Cromwell to account

what an extraordinary historian ronald hutton is. he is justly celebrated as the author of two books on popular customs and the cycle of the...

Melanie McDonagh

The best shadows of the year

i long for the coming change in the feel of the garden. i am not a gardener who obsessively tidies in the autumn. in fact, i make great effo...

‘An indelible mark on the soul’

just four days after the assisted dying bill was introduced into the house of lords, bishop mark davies of shrewsbury issued a pastoral lett...

Canadian mum requests euthanasia for disabled four-year-old son

a mother of a disabled boy is asking the canadian government to extend euthanasia to children so a lethal injection might be given to her so...