Issue: August/September 2022

Empathising with pill-popping Pandora

The voice of a poet whose chequered career reads like a cockeyed novel

If turbulent priests can reach an accord over food and drink, then so can politicians

Theft is the enemy of good business, leaving less for profit, wages and the taxman

The Anglican hierarchy is obsessed with management structures over the real issues of morality, theology and falling congregations

Raphael’s masterful depiction of divine light owes much to Dante, who incorporated the latest
optical thinking in his visionary poetry

What it’s like to fulfil a boyhood dream on the footplate of a classic steam locomotive

Portraits of six great leaders, from the pen of Henry Kissinger

Would getting Britons to close their storybook really solve Britain’s problems?

Some had talent, some did not