MANCHESTER SQUARE
April 2012
'We all — all classes, races and genders of every sexual persuasion — have a stake in restoring the authority of marriage, because our civilisation depends on it'
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March 2012
One of the strangest sights in contemporary intellectual life has been the apotheosis of the secular saint. Like the
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January/February 2012
'It is true that certain faiths, ideologies and cultures make submission the supreme virtue, while the civilisation that emerged from Athens, Rome and Jerusalem has cherished liberty in all its forms'
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December 2011
'It is profoundly irresponsible for priests, rabbis or imams to make excuses for breaking the law'
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