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President Macron’s “mad” promise will be kept. Notre Dame will reopen by Christmas.
There wasn’t the usual levity when I walked into my French village’s southern boulangerie early on Tuesday morning. The queue was quiet...
Richard Pooley
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The Curse of Partition
In 1973 I was one of group of aspiring British diplomats undergoing the Foreign Office selection process. For one exercise we were...
Michael Carberry
7 min read
The First Internationalist
For the last six months or so, I have been engaged in a mammoth reading project which is the biggest one I have ever undertaken...
Dr. Jehad Al-Omari
5 min read
In praise of Jewry
I am frequently surprised by concatenation, when a series of events, issues or conversations occur more or less at the same time...
Dr. Mark Nicholson
7 min read
Believe it or not
Walking across Edinburgh’s Waverley Station, I happen to be following a man carrying a holdall with a big logo on it announcing “Crusaders”.
Vincent Guy
6 min read
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