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US shows just how much it loathes Europe
I CANNOT imagine why the decision-makers of Europe don’t follow Church Times columnists on Twitter/X. They could learn so much. Earlier this year, after J. D. Vance’s performance at the Munich Security conference, Gerry Lynch…
Malcolm Guite: Poet’s Corner
I WAS sad to learn in the past week that the American poet Luci Shaw had died. It was not surprising news: she was in her late nineties and had been unwell, but it was still a loss. She was a very good poet and a great soul.…
Reminder of a hope beyond politics
ON HIS deathbed, the Emperor Constantine was baptised by an Arian bishop, Eusebius of Nicomedia. Yet, last Friday, he was remembered chiefly as the convener of the church Council that rejected Arius’s contention that the Son…
Prepare for turbulence this Advent
PRESIDENT TRUMP announced on the social-media platform Truth Social last week that he would “permanently pause migration from all third world countries”. It was a nasty, divisive message: an attack on his political opponents,…
Sir Andreas Whittam Smith was an ambitious editor who remained a good man
YOU don’t found a newspaper without ambition, and Sir Andreas Whittam Smith was a determined man who hated to lose. The other two founders of The Independent were the scions of privilege: Matthew Symonds, the son of a Labour…
Malcolm Guite: Poet’s Corner
THERE is no feast of Thanksgiving in the British national or church calendars, but it seems to me a good thing for any nation to set aside a day for gratitude, which is, in truth, the root of every other virtue. I am more…
Trump cares about money, not peace
FROM the sacred to the profane. After last Sunday’s sermon on Christ the King, I thought about the millions of Americans who took to the streets last month in “No King’” protests over President Trump’s “increasing…
Let children know the joy of singing together
ON THE eve of St Cecilia’s Day, last Friday, our cathedral in Portsmouth was full for evensong. The choir — boy choristers, lay clerks, and choral scholars — sang the opening responses as usual. The psalm set on this occasion…
In the American Empire, the law serves power
THE most prophetic book title of the century may have been Nothing is True and Everything is Possible. Peter Pomerantsev’s little book was, when it came out in 2014, an account of the way in which President Putin had…
Malcolm Guite: Poet’s Corner
I WRITE this on return from an extraordinary C. S. Lewis conference in Romania. How is it that more than 50 scholars from around the world, and many more students and interested members of the general public, all made the…
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