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Not So Divine Intervention

Damian Thompson on how some Anglican bishops are closing down large parts of their church NO ONE who missed the first run of Rac- ing Demon, David Hare's play about the Church......

An Unfulfilled Eccentric

Martin Vander Weyer talks to Lord Palumbo, a tycoon with much to be defensive about LORD PALUMBO was somehow not quite as I had imagined him. In pho- tographs, the millionaire......