Cognisant of its dwindling membership, the Church of England is in survival mode, adopting fashionable ideologies in an attempt to remain ‘relevant’ whilst maintaining a semblance of orthodoxy to keep the pew-dwellers happy. The latest example is of the Anglican charity, United Society Partners in the Gospel (USPG), pledging £7m to Barbados over the next […]
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Of all kinds of humour, political satire is the one that authoritarians tolerate least, for it has the habit of releasing suppressed feelings of defiance among the governed that might coalesce into rebellion. Two Serbian journalists, Srdja Popovic and Mladen Joksic, demonstrated this way back in 1998 with a prank. They and colleagues from the
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Martha Gill’s recent article in The Guardian (‘A Tory MP wants a minister for men. How about one for white people, heterosexuals and the upper classes?’, 9 September) is a masterpiece of hypocrisy, fallacy and ignorance. It is an exercise in fragile feminism. So, what is her problem with MP Nick Fletcher’s idea of appointing
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What to do with the word ‘evil’? It is the ultimate description of the depraved depths to which some humans descend. Here we find infanticides, serial killings and genocides. Here we meet Ian Brady, Ted Bundy and Adolf Hitler. Yet our age’s anodyne response is to avoid the word altogether. We are the philosophical descendants
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