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David Davis as William Gladstone

Perhaps an even closer parallel in Gladstone’s career was his resignation from Palmerston’s administration in 1855. Lord Aberdeen had called together the Peelite faction of the Conservative party, to which Gladstone belonged, and told them they must ...

From CHRISTOPHER HOWSE, The Telegraph,  12 Jun 2008

Is the virus that deadly?

The video likens secularisation to a virus, and the presenter, Sameth ed-Shahat, appears in one scene wearing a face-mask of the kind Japanese people are fond of. For decades, clever people have been predicting that religion would soon die in the face ...

From CHRISTOPHER HOWSE, The Telegraph,  11 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Charles Taylor

On the road to Santiago

I’m off on the road to Compostela, and next week I’ll be near the village pictured here, in the middle of a very wide nowhere in the province of Segovia.  Los Huertos, Segovia, a photo by Colin Jones from the Confraternity I’m not walking all the way ...

From CHRISTOPHER HOWSE, The Telegraph,  29 May 2008

Murderers are like us

I’ve known quite a few people who’ve killed someone – murdered them, even. Sex and death are the stuff of a folk song Bill Moore killed a man after he escaped from a prisoner of war camp, and though Bill was always a bit odd and dangerous I couldn’t ...

From CHRISTOPHER HOWSE, The Telegraph,  27 May 2008

The next big disaster

The Burma cyclone disaster and China’s earthquake are gloomy enough. But Prof Philip Stott, the down-to-earth earth scientist, puts them in perspective with a league table of natural disasters on his blog Global Warming Politics. He puts a prehistoric ...

From CHRISTOPHER HOWSE, The Telegraph,  19 May 2008

Bob Dylan connections in London

Bob Dylan did a little dance of excitement on the pavement as he chanted a flight of ideas inspired by the inscriptions on a wall in London. Who built the house that inspired Dylan? It is a striking piece of footage at the beginning of the second half ...

From CHRISTOPHER HOWSE, The Telegraph,  17 May 2008
Related Topics: Bob Dylan,  Martin Scorsese

Was, is, and will be

The Daily Telegraph first came out on June 29, 1855. It was named after the electric telegraph, a device that has been called the internet of its day. The telegraph brought news across continents in a flash. Dispatches from the Crimean war reached ...

From CHRISTOPHER HOWSE, The Telegraph,  15 May 2008

Thatchers can’t be choosers

Thatchers are rare in Parliament. Thatch, though, was the subject of a strange debate last week. Sir George Young was explaining the absurd impasse into which people with thatched roofs have been forced. The wrong kind of straw is the bureaucrats’ ...

From CHRISTOPHER HOWSE, The Telegraph,  12 May 2008
Related Topics: George Young,  Oliver Letwin,  Iain Wright

Peace at the Charterhouse

A moving ceremony was enacted at the beginning of the week by 20 Brothers at the Charterhouse in London, the wonderful medieval complex hidden like some Oxbridge college in the middle of Clerkenwell. The Charterhouse, like a hidden college in ...

From CHRISTOPHER HOWSE, The Telegraph,  9 May 2008
Related Topics: Chelsea F.C.,  John P. Hale,  James Thomson,  John Cooke

The secrets of London N19

I discovered a blinding truth today, thanks to a trip to Archway. The truth was the origin of London’s postal district numbers. The questions is why I had never known this before.  Why is the N19 postal district between N6 and N7? One is used to the ...

From CHRISTOPHER HOWSE, The Telegraph,  7 May 2008

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