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It Was A Long Time Ago And I Wasn't There Anyway
No moral quarter can be given to crimes against humanity if we are to be true to our common Creator
It’s late, but not too late said the posters in Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne in mid-2013.
The final push to bring to justice the remaining perpetrators of the Holocaust has been spurred by the successful prosecution in 2011 of the now deceased Ivan Demjanjuk.
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Looking Up To Others
Famous people have the most diffused power to influence others, but more concentrated power lies closer to home.
Role models have always featured in culture but never more so than now.
Girls In The Hood
God is present in the estates the Church talks about reaching; unlike his followers, he never left these spaces. It is to be seen whether the furore over the lack of black actors among the Oscar nominees for 2016 will make a difference
The Word Made Flat
- People need poetry to inspire a sense of vision; a pity that so much jargon clutters the view. The Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) has done us all a favour by exposing the most irritating cases
One Nation Under God?
- As Britain slowly unpicks the threads that once wove it together, where does Christianity now belong? An EU ruling in April 2014 that Cornwall is recognised as a national minority has been heralded by the Cornish
It Was A Long Time Ago And I Wasn't There Anyway
- No moral quarter can be given to crimes against humanity if we are to be true to our common Creator. It’s late, but not too late said the posters in Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne in mid-2013.
Zero's Darkness
- A gripping film of the hunt for Bin Laden quietly asks us what values we stand for when confronted by those who mean us harm. Among a growing body of films devoted to the aftermath of 9/11,
No More Heroes
- Ours may now be a post-heroic era, but the foundation of a good character which respects opponents should remain the basis of our politics.
Even before his death, Nelson Mandela was hailed as the last great hero of ...
What Are Men For?
- The social landscape is changing for men and one generation in particular is not adjusting well. A report commissioned by the Samaritans has overturned assumptions about the most ‘at risk’ categories for suicide.
On Being Wired
- Christians should have a spiritual curiosity over the internet; it might enable them to take a lead in establishing values. Beeban Kidron’s documentary, InRealLife (2013), explores the impact of the internet on human life
Theatres Of The Absured
- Two political deaths within a day afforded a salutary reminder of the use and abuse of power.. They are an unlikely couple to be joined at death. Vaclav Havel, the dissident playwright and reluctant president and Kim Jong-il