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Ireland / Catherine Connolly’s victory was no landslide

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The issues that will haunt the new Archbishop of Canterbury

03.10.2025 3

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There’s something vulgar about Freemasons

30.09.2025 30

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Right priorities / I like Pope Leo

15.09.2025 5

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In Our Time won’t be the same without Melvyn Bragg

03.09.2025 3

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Exhibitions / The masterpieces of Sussex’s radical Christian commune

05.08.2025 6

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The masterpieces of Sussex’s radical Christian commune

31.07.2025 2

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Radical to the end / The subversive genius of Tom Lehrer

29.07.2025 2

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We should be outraged by Lily Allen’s ‘four or five’ abortions

04.07.2025 4

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Should Chris Coghlan be denied Holy Communion?

30.06.2025 10

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Diane Abbott’s masterful Assisted Dying speech will come back to haunt us

20.06.2025 4

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MPs have opened the door to infanticide

18.06.2025 90

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Why isn’t the BBC telling us what caused the Ballymena riots?

12.06.2025 20

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Junk mail / Who stamped out the postal service?

13.05.2025 30

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Pope Leo probably isn’t that liberal

09.05.2025 4

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Junk mail / Who stamped out the postal service?

09.05.2025 10

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Does Leo see himself as an American Pope?

09.05.2025 10

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Who stamped out the postal service?

08.05.2025 8

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The two young women who blazed a trail for modernism in Ireland

01.05.2025 5

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Trans men using women’s toilets isn’t always a problem

28.04.2025 10

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Pope Francis’s funeral will be symbolic 

26.04.2025 5

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Pope Francis had his priorities right

25.04.2025 10

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Pope Francis had his priorities right

24.04.2025 4

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How Pope Francis kept the faith

21.04.2025 10

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Is it time for Christians to unite over Easter?

18.04.2025 4

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The catch of the King’s Maundy Thursday address

18.04.2025 40

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Why shouldn’t Livia Tossici-Bolt try and prevent abortions?

07.04.2025 20

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Grimm Tales / Children’s books are too depressing

25.03.2025 10

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Sham rocked / Which Saint Patrick are we celebrating?

17.03.2025 10

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Why should cohabitees get the benefits of marriage?

13.03.2025 9

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Are you Ramadan-ready?

28.02.2025 10

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Francis reveals himself to be a pope of two halves

14.01.2025 10

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The case for ‘long Christmas’

There comes a time right after the new year when the retail sector decides it’s done with fairy lights and sparkles. Out goes the party food, the...

27.12.2024 10

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When will the BBC stop adapting Julia Donaldson books?

Another Christmas, another BBC adaptation of a Julia Donaldson story. This time it’s an animated version of Tiddler, the story of a little fish who...

25.12.2024 4

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