The war on drugs hasn’t worked. Cigarette smoking, on the other hand, has declined steadily since the Second World War
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Taking drugs should be legal but discouraged in the same way as smoking

We should never give in to moral relativism
Whether one is Labour or Tory, believer or not, you can’t change the natural laws
How Catholic was Puccini?
A new, Freudian study suggests the composer’s Catholicism was skin deep
Jeffrey John, Dean of St Albans, celibate homosexual and man of principle, twice denied a bishopric, may now sue the C of E: it would be a sad and secularist falling away

His non-appointment as Bishop of Southwark was a prime example of Anglicanism’s inability to think theologically
Downside can emerge renewed from this crisis

The school must reform swiftly to remain a beacon of Benedictine education
It is right and Christian to build bridges with North Korea
David Alton’s inspiring attempts to open up the ‘hermit kingdom’ is an example of Christian diplomacy at its best
Believe it or not, the new BBC series on the Crusades is excellent

Presenter Thomas Asbridge confronts the brutality of the Crusades without lapsing into polemic





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