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William Oddie

Cameron supports same-sex marriage and opposes our right to wear the cross. Is this ‘the most aggressively atheistic government in our history’?

March 23, 2012

If the Prime Minister doesn’t want this perception to take hold, he had better start listening

The political exploitation of the Toulouse killings revealed Sarkozy’s rivals as contemptibly opportunist

March 21, 2012

The massacres never had anything remotely to do with the French debate on immigration

The Church of England being what it is, no Archbishop of Canterbury can succeed: but Rowan Williams has failed more disastrously than most

March 19, 2012

He is supposed to be a theologian: but his actions have been theologically incoherent

The ‘war on drugs’ is the problem, not the solution. It never made sense: now we have the proof

March 14, 2012

Legalising drugs reduces both crime and addiction

This is a time for passionate language; Cardinal O’Brien and Dr Sentamu are right to speak as they do about gay ‘marriage’

March 05, 2012

It would be a disaster almost impossible to reverse: this is the time to put a stop to it

Bishop Davies of Shrewsbury says we need to face the reality of hell during Lent. It’s such an unusual thing for a bishop to say that it made a Herald headline

March 02, 2012

And yet, without understanding this reality, what is left?

Secularist attacks on the Catholic faith get worse, on both sides of the Atlantic: here it’s the TUC; in the US (where at least there’s a fightback) it’s Obama

February 27, 2012

Now, Mother Angelica has drawn her sword: watch out!

Greek accusations that Merkel is behaving like a Nazi are unjust: it might, though, be a good Lenten exercise for Germany to embark on a penitential self-examination

February 22, 2012

This massive “bail-out” is intended to save the eurozone, not the Greeks

Yet again, we are wrecking the life of an innocent man by handing him over to US ‘justice’ without any decision from our own courts

February 20, 2012

Blair’s shameful subservience to Bush spawned the 2003 Extradition Act: it should be repealed forthwith

The visit led by Baroness Warsi to the Vatican ended in feelings of good will all round: all the same, the Holy See made it plain it is preparing for battle

February 17, 2012

The Church’s values are not those of the Cameron government; there could be trouble ahead

David Mellor, former Home Office Minister, says we are under no legal obligation to obey the Strasbourg Court’s ruling on Abu Qatada. Is he right? No one’s denied it

February 15, 2012

If he is, let’s have this poisonous man on the next plane back to Amman

The night Dickens had a Marian vision

February 15, 2012

As we celebrate 200 years since Dickens’s birth William Oddie recalls the writer’s uncanny vision of a woman in blue

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