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What does it mean to be on the right politically?
As UK Tory MP John Redwood points out today, the liberal media tends to call anyone “right” as a term of abuse for people they disagree with. The “right” within the Conservative party is a term used to describe a...
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When Rowan Williams saw Jesus as he had never seen him before
While specialist theologians regard Archbishop Rowan Williams as a creative and powerful thinker, others often find him complex and difficult to follow. I shall never forget sitting in the sunshine on a summer afternoon in the beautiful Cathedral Close in...
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Why taxation hinders the growth of capital and reduces consumption
In Chapter 8 of his book On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1817) p. 152 David Ricardo reflected on the impact of taxation and concluded: There are no taxes which have not a tendency...
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Inside Story: ´best biography he has read´
In ´Evangelicals Now´ for February 2010, Baptist Minister Rick Battenfield wrote this of Roger´s ´Inside Story´: In reading this biography of John Stott the reader will find that the title of the book is eminently appropriate. One does feel like...
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Sitting at the feet of the Abbot of Buckfast
Sunday 9 October 2011 Yesterday, at a Biblefresh Festival at the Mint Methodist Church in Exeter, I joined a group led by Father Abbot David of Buckfast Abbey. The Abbot talked engagingly and inspirationally about Benedictine Spirituality and Lectio divina...
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Why great men (or women) are almost always bad men (or women)
Lord Acton (1834-1902) was one of the great historians of the Victorian period and one of the greatest classical liberal historians of all time. His theme was “the history of liberty”. He wrote to Bishop Creighton in a series of...
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Memories of a visit to the House of Terror, Budapest
Friday 7 October 2011 Perhaps the most vivid and moving memory of our visit to Budapest last week was that to the House of Terror just down the road from our hotel in Andrassy Street. It contains exhibits related to...
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Next stage with rogersteer.com
Wednesday 5 October 2011 You will see that my website has a new look. We are still working to iron out some teething problems. When we have got it right, you, the welcome visitor to this site, and I will...
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How are things down Maggie Burleigh way?
The Tamar Belle nosed out of its moorings at the Barbican, Plymouth, with my wife and me aboard, bound for Cotehele Quay. Our skipper told us about Drake's Island, Plymouth Breakwater, German frigates and atomic submarines berthed in the Hamoaze...
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From the hedgerows of Devon to the Foreign Office
The earliest known photograph of Ernest Bevin shows him as a little boy of three wearing a wide-brimmed straw hat and sailor suit at a Sunday-school treat in 1884. He was born in Winsford, Somerset, on 7 March 1881. His...
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