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- Giles Fraser: Is Fairtrade the same as fair?
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- Don’t wait: plan your funeral now
- Leader: Taking a lead from Bargain Booze
- 100 years ago: Novelist as historian
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Failing with the best of themIt was a little moment of epiphany on one of those interminable Sunday train journeys, when the world — or the part of it that runs on rails — slows to... |
Giles Fraser: Is Fairtrade the same as fair?The Adam Smith Institute has just exploded a bomb underneath Fairtrade Fortnight. |
Baptism should not involve perjuryIn all my years as a parish priest, I advocated that “it is desirable that every minister having the cure of souls shall normally administer the sacrament... |
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Can Poles integrate in the UK?When Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor travels to Warsaw next week to confer with the Bishops’ Conference of Poland, much will be at stake. |
Simon Parke: Mistaken mergers“DOCTOR, doctor! I keep making false assumptions about people. Do you know what is wrong?” |
Don’t wait: plan your funeral nowTHE FUNERAL began with the words, “Hello, everyone, and thank you for coming.” |
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Leader: Taking a lead from Bargain BoozeIN NOVEMBER last year, Off Licence News lamented that not a week went by without “yet another attack on alcohol and alcohol retailing”. |
100 years ago: Novelist as historianA CORRESPONDENT sends us a cutting from a North country newspaper, giving an account of a lecture by the Rev. R. H. Benson. |
Children can cope when given the chance‘More than anything else, young people need to know they are loved’ |
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