Violet Wood
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A crime is not a crime
One of the fundamentals of living in society is that you are entitled to know whether something you might do is legal or not. How do you know? One starting point for individuals is the legal maxim 'Everything which is not forbidden is allowed'. In modern criminal law,
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Contemplation 7: The Julian Meetings
The Julian Meetings is a national, UK-based organisation which fosters the teaching and practice of silent prayer. It works primarily through a network of local groups but its resources are available to individuals also. The Julian Meetings began in 1973 when an Anglican laywoman, Hilary Wakeman, wrote to a
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Auntie Claus and the moral imperative
Auntie Claus is one of my favourite children's books. Our heroine lives in a New York penthouse. She is stylish, she wears a red velvet gown with white ermine trimming, and she is mysteriously absent from November to February every year. She has a famous brother. She also
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Green Party: Zionism is racism
Disclaimer: I am not a member of any political party, although my position is closer to the Greens than to other parties in a range of policy areas. Last Sunday, the Green Party annual conference voted in favour of a motion whose two headline points were: 1. Zionism is a
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Lady Maisery
Lady Maisery are an all-female English folk trio from Sheffield. They’ve been together for at least 15 years while also maintaining their separate musical careers. Musically they are very talented: they all play a range of instruments and their singing is beautiful. They combine in a rich vocal
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How to be divisive
This is William Taylor, the rector of St Helen's Bishopsgate in the City of London. In a previous article entitled Love and hate, I described how his church had started work on setting up a separate province within the Anglican communion so as to preserve doctrinal purity in
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