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For those of you who are fans of the Britcom Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister and I m not the least of these to paraphrase St Paul you ll enjoy this behind-the-scenes look at life at 10 Downing Street in which Tony Blair was amused to find himself seemingly stuck in that 1980s sitcom

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We don t normally advertise upcoming events but this one looks great nbsp Bringing together a wide variety of voices on the question of abortion is this conference at Princeton University nbsp Check out the participants Open Hearts Open Minds and Fair Minded Words A Conference on Life and Cho

Robert Mickens at the Tablet tipped us off to the official press release from the Vatican on the pope s extraordinary meeting with the Irish bishops over the sexual abuse crisis nbsp It is also on the Holy See s website PRESS RELEASE ON THE MEETING OF THE HOLY FATHER WITH SENIOR IRISH BISHOPS AND

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Tim Reidy our online editor is also an inveterate nbsp moviegoer and savvy critic nbsp Here s his take on The White Ribbon as part of our online Culture section nbsp The critically acclaimed film which has been nominated for an Academy nbsp Award for nbsp Best Foreign Language Film is nbs

Lindsay Lohan the actress-cum-fashionista has posed provocatively on the cover of Purple a French fashion magazine to which--zut alors --my subscription just ran out as Jesus Christ nbsp H T to David Gibson at Politics Daily Sort of nbsp nbsp Ms Lohan is wearing a crown of thorns and nb

Happy Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes nbsp The first apparitions to St Bernadette Soubirous a poor girl living in Lourdes a small town in the High Pyrenees in Southern France began on this date 151 years ago nbsp

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