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...However, far from seeing himself as some high priest of austerity, Schäuble contended that his fundamental principle was the sustainability of the public finances over the long term....
...Tony Barber’s article “Russia gives an updated lesson in distorting history” (Opinion, August 12) was a magnificent illustration of George Orwell’s warning provided by Big Brother in Nineteen Eighty-Four...
...Not all are politically active, but those who are cut memorable figures, such as the Orthodox priest Oleg Batov, who paraphrases St Augustine: “A state devoid of justice is no better than a band of robbers...
...tony.barber@ft.com Letters in response to this article: Did Russia’s priests have a part in Putin’s palimpsest?...
...My father, Canon Tony Williamson, was an example of this approach....
...“The strongest of us was the one who managed to stay inside for 10 minutes with ghosts,” says the Tony award-winning playwright....
...The priest Juan Tusquets was “obsessed with finding Freemasons even under the serviettes”, as one contemporary commented....
...Hattie Morahan as Helene and Stuart Thompson as Osvald bring a mesmerising intensity to this mother-son dance of death, and there’s welcome black comedy from Paul Hilton as the self-serving priest....
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...Directed by Tony winner Rachel Chavkin....
...Indeed, officials dismiss arguments that he has actually reinforced his position by ridding himself of a turbulent priest as little more than Russian propaganda....
...The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Destruction of the Old Ottoman World by Eugene Rogan (Allen Lane)One of the watershed moments in the history of the Middle East is vividly recreated in this...
...The 61-year-old priest has a leading role in Notre-Dame’s renaissance....
...Tony Abbott, the former conservative prime minister of Australia, said the church had lost a “saint for our times” and compared Pell’s incarceration with a “modern form of crucifixion; reputationally at...
...As Alastair Campbell warned during Tony Blair’s premiership: “We don’t do God.” Against this, Williams pits his favoured model of so-called procedural secularism....
...He is well supported by Tony Gardner’s pompous superintendent, Jordan Metcalfe’s bullishly stupid detective and Shane David-Joseph’s hapless constable....
...(Patrick Temple-West) A criminal waste of potential Paul Cowley’s memoir Thief Prisoner Soldier Priest recounts a life that took him from crime and homelessness to prison, and then from the British army...
...The regime’s secret police kidnapped and murdered Poland’s most popular pro-Solidarity priest. But the amnesty preceded the era of Soviet liberalisation under Gorbachev....
...There followed unfair trials and gruesome executions of several dozen innocent Catholic laymen and priests....
...If you have any thoughts or suggestions, get in touch — you can reach me at tony.barber@ft.com....
...Maybe, it was from the Jesuit priests who taught him at Stonyhurst....
...In the first place, it shouldn’t surprise us that the Russian Orthodox Church — with the exception of some very brave low-ranking priests — is firmly at Putin’s side....
...That’s not to say that there are no high-profile premieres: one notable coup is the opening film, Matthew Warchus’s adaptation of the Tony and Olivier award-winning musical version of Roald Dahl’s Matilda...
...He found a common interest in Christian socialism and a spiritual mentor (Anglican priest Peter Thomson) with another very political contemporary: Tony Blair, the future Labour prime minister....
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