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ARTS AND CULTURE

Shakespeare's war criminal? Henry V and the problem of heroism
- Peter Craven
- 14 March 2025
Shakespeare’s Henry V has long been celebrated as a stirring hymn to English valour, a theatrical counterpart to Churchill’s wartime oratory. But beneath its rousing rhetoric lies a darker truth of a king who breaks hearts as easily as he wins battles, a war epic that disguises the brutality it glorifies.
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RELIGION

The Church has never been far from Papal crises
- Constant Mews
- 13 March 2025
The Catholic Church has weathered centuries of crisis, from ancient schisms to modern scandals with each era bringing calls for reform. As Pope Francis reshapes the Church’s leadership, his successor must decide how the papacy will adapt to present and future challenges.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Flesh is a revelation of what fiction can do
- Peter Craven
- 07 March 2025
David Szalay’s Flesh unfolds with quiet, mesmeric intensity, charting a life shaped by desire, disappointment and disaster. As the ordinary shades into the catastrophic, Szalay’s controlled, unshowy prose builds a world of betrayals, longings and subtle devastations, proving, once again, that no one writes the ache of being alive quite like him.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

If he be an honest man, so much better
- Warwick McFadyen
- 06 March 2025
What does a forgotten cemetery job ad from 1860 reveal about the lives we honour, the work we overlook, and the honesty we still hope for? A chance discovery in the archives becomes a meditation on honesty, mortality, and the curious poetry of forgotten lives.
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RELIGION

Lent was never just about giving things up
- Andrew Hamilton
- 05 March 2025
Lent is often reduced to private acts of restraint. But its history tells a richer story; of communal memory, public reckoning, and the need to confront human suffering. As new crises unfold, from war to political decay, Lent reminds us that forgetting the past is a luxury we cannot afford.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

What makes a writer, and what breaks one
- Gillian Bouras
- 28 February 2025
What makes a writer? Is it exile, loss, or the relentless pull of history? In One Another, Gail Jones traces the lives of two outsiders—Joseph Conrad and a young Australian academic—both adrift between worlds, both seeking meaning in words. A novel about displacement, identity, and the burden of storytelling.
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Keywords: Death

Shakespeare's war criminal? Henry V and the problem of heroism

The Church has never been far from Papal crises

Flesh is a revelation of what fiction can do

If he be an honest man, so much better

Lent was never just about giving things up

What makes a writer, and what breaks one