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Leader comment: In service
THE knife attacks on the 18.25 LNER train from Doncaster to King’s Cross on Saturday have horrified all right-thinking people. Reports of passengers hiding in toilets and the buffet carriage, as a man wielding a blade went on…
Next in Gaza — and around the world
AT THE time of writing, the ceasefire in Gaza is barely holding. The pause in the general fighting means that the agony for most of the Israeli hostage families has ended, and the bombardment of the people of Gaza is at…
First, read — and then mark, learn, and inwardly digest
THE Education Secretary, Bridget Phillipson, is on a mission to get children and young people reading. “Reading holds the key to so much of children’s education; so the decline in reading for pleasure among young people…
Leader comment: Free spirits: liturgical anarchy?
THE use of unauthorised texts for the eucharist is not confined to new worshipping communities, a new report from Cranmer Hall observes: “It is common to find Anglican churches in the evangelical tradition which hold…
Leader comment: Mullally understands the scale of the task
COMMENT about the nomination of the Bishop of London as the next Archbishop of Canterbury has focused, above all, on her being the first ever woman to hold the office. This is, of course, unprecedented — and was even just a…
Leader comment: What works?
“I COMMIT this Labour Government to nothing less than the abolition of long-term youth unemployment,” the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, declared in a speech to her party’s conference on Monday. In an initiatve building on the…
Seismic? Change in the Church in Wales
THE Governing Body of the Church in Wales met last week for the first time since the abrupt retirement of the former Archbishop of Wales, the Most Revd Andrew John, in the light of the Bangor crisis. This was no small thing.…
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