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George W Bush and Paris Hilton: An Affair?!?!? A Short Play by Sabina England

Published: July 2, 2007, 11:03 am

Tags: Art, Bizarre, Conversations, George Bush, Paris Hilton, Playwriting, Politics, Sabina England, Taqwacores, Theatre, Weird

Written by Sabina England Copyright 2007 by Sabina England CHARACTERS JAMILA, an Iraqi teenager STAGE MANAGER, a wanker GEORGE W. BUSH, the former President of the United States of America PARIS HILTON, a whore socialite LAURA BUSH, former First Lady MARY CHENEY, Dick Cheney’s Lesbian daughter TIME Summer 2009, at an

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FREEDOM: TO BE FREE, TO BE DUMB?!?!

Published: June 21, 2007, 6:45 am

Tags: Bizarre, Democracy, Freedom, Freedom Of Speech, Sabina England, Weird

A Question Essay by Sabina England When I was a li’l girl, I didn’t have no freedom to be free. I was kept on a leash whenever I wanna go outside to play. I couldn’t eat more than 2 cookies from the jar. I wasn’t allowed to swear. I wasn’t allowed to watch R rated movies. When I first saw ‘Top

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'Six of the best' for Rowan

Published: July 26, 2007, 1:01 pm

Tags: Archbishop Of Canterbury, Church Of England, Global South, Lambeth Conference

See our report today on another Lambeth boycott threat, this time from none other than the mother ship herself. Up to 60 per cent of the CofE's bishops might boycott Lambeth, according to our fifth most senior bishop, Winton. And...

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Synod Days 2,3 & 4

Published: July 9, 2007, 10:24 am

Tags: Anglican Communion, Church Of England, Disestablishment, Gay Debate, Global South, Liturgy

The importance of the debate on the Anglican Covenant that we report in today's paper cannot be underestimated. Had it been successfully stopped at this point, the signal to the rest of the Anglican Communion, as well as the Church's...

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General Synod: Day One

Published: July 6, 2007, 12:36 pm

Tags: Church Of England

The Church of England's General Synod is meeting in York this weekend. The most important debate will be on the covenant on Sunday, when West Indies Archbishop Drexel Gomez will address the synod. Behind the scenes, battle lines are being...

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Dow, Decadence and the Deluge

Published: July 3, 2007, 8:28 am

Tags: Charismatics Pentecostals, Church Of England, Eschatology, Humour, Theology, Weather

I had a little fun yesterday revisiting the past to write about the Bishop of Carlisle, Graham Dow, who has been making headlines by linking the recent floods in Britain to the moral decadence of our society. In my piece...

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CofE 'would shut down' without its gay clergy, says +Gene.

Published: July 27, 2007, 1:29 pm

Tags: Anglican Communion, Church Of England, Gay Debate

Andrew Collier, a freelance journalist based in Scotland, has just interviewed Bishop Gene Robinson in London. This is the bit I liked best: 'I think the thing that is the most mystifying to me and the most troubling about the...

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New England White

Published: June 11, 2007, 9:55 am

Tags: New England White, Stephen Carter, Fiction

he's done it again in New England White. The setting is the same as before, the scenic New England college town of Elm Harbor (all due deference to the whole idea of author's extending themselves, but we sincerely hope Carter keeps returning to Elm Harbor for the rest of his natural life), and the plot features campus and even national

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Age catching up with Tendulkar

Published: July 29, 2007, 10:32 am

Tags: England

Paresh Soni sees an all-time great battle the ravages of time

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Live - England v India

Published: July 29, 2007, 5:08 am

Tags: England

England begin a rearguard action after India are bowled out for 481 to take a first-innings lead of 283 in the second Test.