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Doubtless, many believe that the House of Commons debate last Friday on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill was about death. In fact, the decision MPs...

Sir John Hayes MP has joined farmers and growers from South Holland and the Deepings in a mass rally of Parliament on Tuesday November 19th. Sir John met a...

In George Orwell’s seminal novel 1984 ‘thoughtcrime’ is the offence of thinking about things disapproved of by his fiction’s dictatorial regime, which Orwell’s...

Thirteen years ago, with the death - at the age of 110 - of the last veteran of the First World War a chapter in our nation’s history ended. Claude Choules left...

In recent years sudden events beyond our shores have had a devastating effect on Britian. The Covid pandemic, which began far away, soon affected our country...

Mankind’s capacity for kindness and mercy is endless and timeless, but sadly so is our capacity for cruelty. There is little more cruel than enslaving a fellow...

“For all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword". That warning from Jesus, recounted in St Matthew’s Gospel, followed his betrayal by Judas. The...

In 1971 the then American President, Richard Nixon, launched a ‘War on Cancer’, aimed at channelling U.S. national efforts to find a cure. This pivotal crusade...

The UK’s last coal power station, in Nottinghamshire’s Ratcliffe-on-Soar, has closed permanently. For nearly 150 years, coal was at the core of our country’s...