Tag: Notebook

Notebook: Anthony Seldon

Beacons of light“WALK to Auschwitz? You’re mad!” was the verdict of my family. But walk there I did; and this week I completed the final edits to The Path to Light, the book about it.It is a sequel to The Path to Peace, which…

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Serving citizens SOMEWHAT to my surprise, I have just turned 75, at which age one has to stand down from active duties as Deputy Lieutenant (DL) of Oxfordshire. One of the duties that I will miss is the citizenship ceremonies…

Notebook: Sister Teresa FCJ

Sister Act? NUNS seem to hold a special place in the popular imagination. Say the word “nun”, and people picture a saintly woman, usually veiled and wearing a medieval, monastic-style habit, eyes looking heavenward and hands…

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Driving force ON A Saturday afternoon almost exactly five years ago, I had tea in the vicar’s garden, and he told me about that morning’s 8 a.m. reopening after three months of forced closure. “You know who was first through…