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Cats have a part in God’s purposes
YOU would not know it from the Common Worship calendar, but 17 March is the feast day of St Gertrude of Nivelles, the daughter of a Frankish nobleman. Gertrude rejected several marriage proposals to found a Benedictine…
Malcolm Guite: Poet’s Corner
RATTY’s famous remark, in The Wind in the Willows, that there is nothing half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats has been something of a watchword for me. It holds true even for what some might consider the…
Dario Amodei’s Economist grilling evokes Stalinist show trial
EVERYONE compares Trump to Hitler, but there is a lot to be said for comparisons to Stalin, too. When I watched Dario Amodei, the chief executive of the AI company Anthropic, being interviewed by Zanny Minton Beddoes of The…
Malcolm Guite: Poet’s Corner
March month of “many weathers” wildly comes In hail and snow and rain and threatning hums And floods. . . JOHN CLARE, that close observer and celebrant of the seasons, is, as always, right. The past week or two have, indeed,…
Iran bombing wreaks chaos in the Middle East
AYATOLLAH Ali Khamenei was prepared for death. He was aged 86 and had nominated his successor. It wasn’t the only plan that he and his Islamic elite had put in place — as Tehran has shown in its response to President Trump’s…
Angela Tilby: Democracy’s outcomes can surprise
IN 1992, just after the end of the Cold War, the American political philosopher Francis Fukuyama published a groundbreaking book, The End of History and the Last Man. In it, he argued that, with the emergence of Western…
Electors vote for postures — not for policies
AT THE last General Election, I decided that I had spent far too much time writing about politics and not nearly enough discovering how it’s done; so, I decided to do some canvassing for whichever party had the best chance of…
No, the monarchy is not in crisis
AT THE BAFTAs the other night, as the Prince and Princess of Wales arrived, a voice rang out from the press pack: “Your Royal Highnesses, is the monarchy in peril?”It was shouted, not asked. The oafish tone was not…
Why I will not cross the Tiber as Robin Ward has
I WAS not entirely surprised to hear that Canon Robin Ward had been received into the Roman Catholic Church. When he was Principal of St Stephen’s House, and I was at Christ Church, Oxford, I had several conversations in…
Reform would list churches — and the country
THE TIMES carried a really excellent fact-check and demolition job by its religious-affairs correspondent, Kaya Burgess, on Reform UK’s proposal to help save Britain’s “Christian heritage”. The proposal had been outlined by…
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