“WE JEWS used to keep our heads down, so no one would notice us. We didn’t want to stand out or be seen as different. We just wanted to get on and be accepted as part of British society like […]
By Michael Williams It could hardly be more be surreal. Here I am discussing the significance of the Lord’s Prayer, that most emblematic totem of the Christian liturgy, with the most powerful woman in British Judaism in the […]
I have just spent three years in the company of some of the most remarkable people in Britain. You probably won’t know them personally – or even bother to think about them, yet they are everywhere in our midst. Often […]
The invitation to breakfast came out of the blue from a former Sunday Times colleague who I hadn’t seen for years. As we chatted over scrambled eggs and smoked salmon in a fashionable Soho café, I realised the plan wasn’t […]
It was an astonishing admission from one of Rupert Murdoch’s most faithful executives. We’d gone to lunch to reminisce about our years together working at Wapping on Murdoch’s broadsheet papers. This was a man who was once so “on the […]
Could there be anything closer to paradise on earth? Long shafts of late afternoon sun were streaming through the west windows of Quarr Abbey as I awaited the start of Vespers, setting aglow the distinctive orange brickwork of Dom Paul […]