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Grooming gangs and the truth
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Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
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The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
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Be the Church you want to see in the world
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was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
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The ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished
Britain should speak up for Egypt’s persecuted Christians
We should oppose blasphemy laws at home and abroad
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.