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Arts & Books

52 Jessie Childs

Hoax: The Popish Plot that Never Was by Victor Stater 53 A S H Smyth

Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless Invisisble War by Phil Klay 54 Piers Brendon

The Bride by Roger Hardy 55 Theo Hobson

Liberalism and Its Discontents by Francis Fukuyama 56 Michael White Exaggerated greatness:

The Wreckers reviewed a ess: wed

Life & Soul

57 Nick Riptrazone

The virtue of games 58 Jack Kerouac at 100 How the Beat poet’s faith shaped his life and work Benjamin Ivry 61 Arabella Byrne Off the Beton track:

Confession reviewed

62 Ben Stephens

Ritual matters 63 The Garden Incentivising insects

Cha rlie Hart 64 Pointed Arch Sir Giles Gilbert Scott

Michael Hodges 67 Richard J Ounsworth

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The fall of Satan 68 Diary

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Fr Liam Carpenter 70 Obituary Sir Harrison Birtwistle

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Kemi Badenoch MP is Minister of State for Equalities, Local Government, Faith and Communities Dr Piers Brendon is an Emeritus Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge Benjamin Ivry has written biographies of Francis Poulenc, Arthur Rimbaud and Maurice Ravel Dom Hugh SomervilleKnapman is a monk of Douai Abbey, and parish priest of Scarisbrick in Lancashire Fr Liam Carpenter is a Priest of the Diocese of Nottingham

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