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The materialist humanists are winning — or have, perhaps, already won — the battle for possession of the moral conscience of the modern western world. The issues involved should have been brought into focus by public debate over the Human Fertilization and Embryology Bill, but in reality all the debate has done is to demonstrate how little understanding there is, how insensitive the modern world has become to attitudes to human life that posit the existence of external standards of judgment or of non-material values.
New light on a dark age
Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom, by Tom Holland
Books Of The Year
A further selection of the best and worst books of 2008 , chosen by some of our regular reviewers
Love between the lines
Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell,
edited by Thomas Travisano and Saskia Hamilton
Arts
Depth to the dynamics
Triple Bill
Royal Opera House
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To some of us solitude may be sitting on a park bench amidst a bustling city.
Style & Travel
Spain’s secret kingdoms
Few tourists see the buildings, birds and flowers of Leon and Burgos, says Simon Courtauld
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Thank goodness we can have a run on the pound when we need one
Martin Vander Weyer looks ahead to next week’s Pre-Budget Report and reflects on George Osborne’s contentious remarks about the devaluation of sterling. It looks like Gordon Brown is getting away with his borrowing binge — leaving the Tories isolated
Martin Vander WeyerI loved Oliver Stone’s Bush film — and I know why the critics hated it
The movie W. did not provide the crude anti-Bush agitprop that the reviewers craved, says Rod Liddle. This was precisely its strength: we need to get inside the minds even of those we most deplore
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