Guantanamo

The hypocrisy of outsourcing the death penalty for Islamist extremists

July 23, 2018
Archbishop Cranmer
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The UK Government has had a longstanding and principled moral objection to the death penalty. Whether you agree with that opposition or not, it has hitherto been applied consistently: under UK law there is now no crime which is considered…

Trump and torture: you don’t fight Islamist fire with the embers of Christian virtue

January 26, 2017
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President Donald Trump wants to keep his country safe from Islamist terrorists. He'd also like to destroy ISIS and wipe them off the face of the earth. In pursuit of…

Battle of Waterloo 200 years on: did Napoleon finally win?

June 18, 2015
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There is a certain concomitance, in the week that we commemorated the 800th anniversary of King John setting his seal upon Magna Carta to secure certain rights and liberties…