Society & Politics

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Grand Designs

Years ago when our children were really small we lived in a house that my…

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Magic in the Moonlight?

Woody Allen’s most recent offering augured so well. Colin Firth is a perennial favourite, and…

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Beyond question

John Roskam, director of the economic rationalist think thank that some critics fear is almost…

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Shallow Secularism

In my last View from the Centre I commented on the crisis in Iraq in…

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On being a ‘sinner’

The term ‘sinner’ is ridiculed today as medieval at best and psychologically damaging at worst.…

Article / Michael Bird

Ending religion won’t end the conflict

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In praise of antiheroes

A fascination with human evil is hardly new, but is the proliferation of recent television…

Article / Barney Zwartz

Baby Gammy and the complexities of moral outrage

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Seven deadly sins

For a list of “don’ts” officially codified by a sixth-century Pope, the seven deadly sins…