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DOMINIC LAWSON: What happened to love thy neighbour ? Or, even more difficult, love thine enemy ? The Bishop of St David s, Dr Joanna Penberthy, has been very unforgiving lately about Conservative voters.
The shapeshifting Tories have grown their base – but this could be their downfall
on Tory limits
“Conservatism is stretching its boundaries in Britain,” writes Andy Beckett in The Guardian. “Electorally it is extending ever further into previously hostile parts of England” and while the Conservatives “seem to be moving both leftwards and rightwards”, their opponents in the Labour Party have found “the sheer profusion of Tory manoeuvres” almost “paralysing”. But while many believe that British Conservatism is “uniquely flexible”, stretching to include “almost any policy, strategy or interest group”, that simply is “not true”. After the pandemic, “when the government’s Covid bills come due” then we’ll discover whether Boris Johnson’s “elastic Conservatism is going to snap”.
Intensely moving, luminous and rather magnificent - The Times
It was one of the most startling moments in the modern history of the City of London. In 2011, the Occupy movement set up camp around St Paul s Cathedral.
Giles
Fraser, who was Canon Chancellor of the Cathedral, gave them his support. It ended in disaster.
This remarkable book is the story of the personal crisis that followed, and its surprising consequences. As
Giles
Fraser found himself crushed between the forces of protest, the needs of the church and the implacable City of London, he resigned, and was plunged into depression.
As his life fell apart and he battled with ideas of suicide,