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Extremists: action here needed now
12:49pm Tuesday 5th January 2010
FOUR weeks ago I wrote in this column that the war in Afghanistan is a senseless waste of our soldiers’ lives. I added: “In any case, the leaders of al Qaida are not only in the border country shared by Afghanistan and Pakistan: they are in Somalia, Sudan and the Yemen.”
Sobering thought for 2010
10:22am Tuesday 29th December 2009
AS the year 1939 faded and the tumultuous year 1940 loomed in the winter darkness, King George VI read a poem by Minnie Haskins over the radio to the nation.
Partying over the recession
10:33am Tuesday 22nd December 2009
RECESSION – what recession? Here in the City of London they are partying like the last days of the Roman Empire. Perhaps that’s it, one final fling before the lights go out?
Why ban on BNP leaves me bugged
10:17am Tuesday 15th December 2009
WE clergy have been told by our ecclesiastical superiors that we must not join the BNP. Well, I wouldn’t join a thuggish gang like the BNP if they gave you free beer and double points on my Tesco Clubcard.
Afghanistan and a fatal confusion
10:16am Tuesday 8th December 2009
THE more I see and hear of US President Barack Obama, the more he reminds me of one of his predecessors, Jimmy Carter: a disastrous mixture of sentimentality, indecision and ineptitude.
Go to the bottom of the class
11:44am Tuesday 1st December 2009
WHEN is the Labour party going to apologise for spoiling the lives of the poor by failing to give them a decent basic education?
I’m sticking rather than twisting
11:59am Tuesday 24th November 2009
SO, did the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Pope have a big row when they met last week in Rome? And what about the Pope’s offer to Church of England priests who are sick of the modernising tendencies in the C of E to go over to Rome? Neither question can be answered without understanding recent historical background.
What Brown should really apologise for
11:54am Tuesday 17th November 2009
"CURIOUSER and curiouser," said Alice of her experiences in Wonderland.
I've changed sides over Afghanistan
12:46pm Tuesday 10th November 2009
ON Remembrance Sunday I was honoured to conduct the annual service for the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, as their chaplain. We began at the war memorial in Holborn, London. Hundreds attended: bright young cadets, proud veterans and many serving soldiers.
Hypocrisy of the ‘war’ on drugs
11:20am Tuesday 3rd November 2009
YEARS ago, when I was a teacher at a secondary school in Bolton, Lancashire, I marvelled at the way pupils were entranced by two annual visitors from the local education authority.
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