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Assume A Virtue, If You Have It Not

Andrew Brown I n ten years' writing about religion, I made it a rule not to read Don Cupitt. I would meet his followers from time to time: pleasant, mild-mannered men, usual- ly......

As Like One Another As Half-pence?

Kevin Myers REBELS AND INFORMERS by Oliver Knox John Murray, £20, pp. 304 E ven more than the Easter Rising of 1916, the United Irishmen and the rebel- lion of 1798 fire the......

Clerihew Corner

'Shakespeare,' declared Bernard Shaw, 'As a technician was immature, raw; Which is why, at 80, I've rewritten Cymbeline, Act Five. Now that will survive.' James Michie......