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Leading the good life

Peter Ainsworth 1956-2021

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Misquoting Shakespeare and a rounded sense of humour

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An actor’s story is a late career marvel

Cleverness is a virtue in itself but is never sterile or without purpose

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The Church of England’s race to the bottom

The Church of England should not be putting ideology before history

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Marcia Mallow

“Nice” people need to read this book

How women have been hounded throughout the gender wars

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Victoria Smith

The Meloni effect

How the Italian prime minister could reshape European politics

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Francesco Giubilei

The problem with petty scandals

They distract us from state failure and institutional decay

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Niall Gooch

Amicus curAI?

The implementation of AI into the judicial process must be handled with care

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Michael Reiners

Is this just fantasy?

Sir Brian May is wrong: farmers do care

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Patrick Galbraith

What does it mean to be Christian?

We are in danger of reducing faith to the shallow depths of personality and politics

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Steve Dew-Jones

Soporific Starmer

The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness

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Robert Hutton

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