Showing posts with label Religion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Religion. Show all posts
Saturday, October 24, 2026

Southwell Minster faces building repair bill of £20m

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Southwell Minster is in financial crisis, with more than £20m of building repairs needed and concern over its long-term future, reports West...
Saturday, September 26, 2026

The Joy of Six 1582

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"Watching him involved engaging a kind of cognitive dissonance: this desperate, thin man was the same person as a sweet 6-year-old sayi...
Friday, September 11, 2026

The Joy of Six 1575

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Zöe Franklin celebrates the 98th anniversary of the Equal Franchise Act, which gave women equal voting rights with men and calls for furthe...
Monday, August 31, 2026

Wells to Walsingham: The world's smallest public railway

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I travelled on the Wells & Walsingham some 20 years ago and remember it as taking itself commendably seriously. Walsingham had its heyda...
Sunday, August 30, 2026

After Dark podcast: Dr Louise Brangan on the Magdalene laundries

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  This edition of the After Dark podcast impressed me because it showed that what we English think we know about Ireland's Magdalene lau...
Friday, August 28, 2026

The Joy of Six 1568

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Tom Perry links to a review of the duty to report child sexual abuse brought in by the Crime and Policing Act 2026. It finds that because o...
Friday, August 21, 2026

David Campanale seeks £788,740.75 compensation from Lib Dems

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Embed from Getty Images David Campanale, the former prospective Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for Sutton and Cheam who was desele...
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Monday, August 17, 2026

Olly Lambert's The Devil in the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke

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Olly Lambert's three-part documentary The Devil in the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke , which is currently on the BBC website , is a br...
Saturday, August 15, 2026

The Joy of Six 1562

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"Every large fire has two causes, the spark that lights it and the conditions that let it become so severe. Naming the fire, though, ca...
Sunday, August 09, 2026

The Joy of Six 1559

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"Violence has prevailed against the freedom of the press. I was denied the right to report on the disgraceful acts which later unfolded...
Friday, August 07, 2026

The uncanny on the western front in the first world war

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Embed from Getty Images Malcolm Gaskill reviews A Supernatural War: Magic, Divination and Faith during the First World War by Owen Davies i...
Saturday, July 11, 2026

The Joy of Six 1546

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Toby Buckle argues that it's time for liberals to throw John Rawls under the bus. In his philosophy he guided the creed toward neutrali...
Sunday, May 24, 2026

The Shortest History of Ireland by James Hawes

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This review appears in the new Liberator – issue 435. You can download it free of charge from the magazine's website. The Shortest Hist...
Thursday, May 14, 2026

"The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate"

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Embed from Getty Images James Hawse's The Shortest History of Ireland reveals that the hymn All Things Bright and Beautiful, with its n...
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Monday, April 13, 2026

The Joy of Six 1503

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Marcus Hughes  on the many problems the Welsh government must overcome in achieving its laudable aim of removing private profit from the car...
Tuesday, April 07, 2026

Three Catholic churches have closed in Northamptonshire

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Holy Trinity, Desborough Opponents of the moved vowed to "take this fight to the Vatican" , but as far as I know the closure of th...
Monday, April 06, 2026

The Joy of Six 1500

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"They should pivot to the centre-right – announcing a bunch of sensible policies that pitch the Tories as a fiscally and socially conse...
Thursday, April 02, 2026

GUEST POST To realise the health benefits of nature we must first admit we are part of it

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Stuart Whomsley reminds us that, though we evolved as a species surrounded by the blue and green stuff, we also have the power to destroy i...
Tuesday, March 10, 2026

You can visit Noah's Ark in Williamstown, Kentucky​

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Embed from Getty Images Most Europeans who visit the United States go to New York or California, which are liberal, cosmopolitan places very...
Thursday, March 05, 2026

The Joy of Six 1484

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"It’s easy to believe that this is all a blatant and shameful effort by Republicans to distract from the Epstein files, shift focus fro...