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The article explores the subtle yet significant shifts towards liberalization in the Middle East, highlighting emerging social movements and changing attitudes that challenge traditional norms.
ITV spent a year undercover with various elements of the Reform party. Last night, they published a taste of what is to come in the full programme this Sunday. The misogyny, racism, bigotry and stupidity is off the charts. Three councillors have resigned. Are they outliers? Or do they tell us what the party is really like? And is the Chairman right when he says this is just what ordinary Britain sounds like away from the cameras? We speak to former Reform insider Tim Montgomerie. The News Age...
How has Alastair managed to come back from some of the darkest places in his life, overcoming a breakdown while in the public eye? Is his obsession with work unhealthy, or necessary to achieving great things and what does it cost his family and those around him? And, beyond the personal, could the word he invented, “Persevilience”, be the antidote to populism, polarisation and post-truth? Listen to Rory Stewart interviewing Alastair Campbell for part one of Persevilience where they discuss al...
The article explores Sally Rooney's decision to boycott translations of her work into Hebrew, examining the implications for artistic expression and political activism in literature.
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"What We Seek is What We Are" Given that yesterday was the Feast of St. Francis, I’d like to start with a short reflection about St. Francis taken from the writings of Fr. Richard Rohr: God cannot be found “out there” until God is first found “in here,” within ourselves. Then we can almost naturally see God in others and in all creation too. What we seek is what we are. The search for God and the search for our true self are finally the same search. Francis’s all-night prayer, “Who are you, O...
Foucault at a Hundred This year marks the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Michel Foucault, one of the most influential French philosophers of the past fifty years. He is probably best known for his studies of madness, prisons, and sexuality (Madness and Civilization, Discipline and Punish, and The History of Sexuality), which all elaborated in different ways on his basic claim that power and knowledge are inseparable. During his lifetime, he was often vilified by the right as deviant an...