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Joshua Bonehill-Paine. What a name to conjure with! Did it influence the path in life he has taken (nominative determinism) or is it just well suited to the person he is (an aptonym)?

In our increasingly authoritarian age, there are some areas in which, rather bizarrely, we have more choice than ever. In terms of personal relationships, there is nowadays a wide variety of choices.

On 28 December each year Western Christian communities around the world mark the Feast of the Holy Innocents, commemorating the horrific events recounted in the Gospel of St Mathew (Ch 2 vv 16-17) when, having learned of the birth of Jesus Christ, Herod the Great, King of Judea (modern day Israel/Palestine) ordered the killing of all babies under the age of two years in Bethlehem and the surrounding district. Herod had been told of the prophecy that from among these childre

On 27th January 2025 the world commemorated the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi extermination camp at Auschwitz – Birkenau...

To escape the dullness of January and the deep despair of the anti-Trumpers – “He moved the whole thing inside so nobody could see how...