CONTENTS 6 NOVEMBER 2010 COLUMNS


5 DAVID BLAIR ‘Terrorists will always gather in areas that diplomats call “ungoverned space”’


7 CATHERINE PEPINSTER ‘Now St Paul’s Cathedral has been turned into a backdrop, a stage set’


15 LAURENCE FREEMAN ‘Just as we feel proud of human altruism, we feel degraded by inhumanity’


16 LISTEN TO THE WORD 18 PARISH PRACTICE 19 NOTEBOOK 20 LETTERS 21 LIVING SPIRIT 22 PUZZLES


BOOKS


23 ROBERT CARVER The Berlin-Baghdad Express: the Ottoman Empire and Germany’s bid for world power 1898-1918 Sean McMeekin


RUSSELL SPARKES The New Economics: a bigger picture David Boyle and Andrew Simms


NICK GARRARD And the Land Lay Still James Robertson


ARTS


27 FEATURE Rick Jones Elgar: The Music Maker


THEATRE Mark Lawson National Anthem


RADIO D.J. Taylor The Ghost Trains of Old England


TELEVISION John Morrish Coppers


12 A goat is not just for Christmas Sam Adams Yaks, teachers, bicycles and toilets will all be under trees across the land as the alternative virtual gift market continues to flourish


14 Buyer be fair Elena Curti We prove that ethically produced goods are not always pricier as we compile a guilt-free Yuletide shopping list on a budget


31 THE CHURCH IN THE WORLD Islamists massacre Catholics at prayer in Baghdad church


34 LETTER FROM ROME


35 NEWS FROM BRITAIN AND IRELAND Liverpool to lose 40 per cent of clergy by 2015


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6 Filling the housing gap Alison Gelder With cuts to housing benefit, what alternatives are there to help people find cheap, decent housing in expensive areas like London?


FEATURES


4 From cradle to grave Anthony O’Mahony Christianity’s very existence in Iraq is under threat from confessional violence, further weakening an already dwindling population


8 Virtues in the storm Vincent Nichols In the face of a new age of austerity, the Archbishop of Westminster argues that society needs to practise Christian virtue to see it through


10 ‘Opaque and clumsy’ Raymond G. Helmick A theologian involved in the 1960s English translation of the Missal writes of a grave disquiet about the new version’s rendering of the text


ETHICAL CHRISTMAS SHOPPING


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