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I grew up in a top-secret spy camp

1 day ago | telegraph.co.uk | Peter Stanford

Alistair Wood was instructed never to talk about his cloak-and-dagger upbringing at Fort Monckton. Fifty years on, he shares his storySpying is in Alistair Wood's DNA. Both his parents were agents in the SIS - the Secret Intelligence Service - better known now as MI6. So was his great aunt Agnes, while among his mother's circle of trusted friends was Harold "Shergy" Shergold, head of SIS's Soviet Bloc operations and credited as the model for John le Carré's George Smiley.
Pope Francis buried after funeral attended by world leaders, royals and 400,000 mourners – as it happened | Pope Francis | The Guardian

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Amy Sedghi |Tom Ambrose |Sam Jones |Harriet Sherwood |William Christou |Angela Giuffrida | +5 more

Italy’s interior minister says 400,000 mourners in St Peter’s Square and surrounding area for funeral of Pope Francis
There is a cancer at the heart of the Catholic Church and Francis's successor must tackle it

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Peter Stanford

Yet to measure Francis against his pledge, soon after his election, to take "decisive action" quickly is to see him fail. The Commission for the Protection of Minors was his structural answer, established in 2014 as part of the Vatican bureaucracy, known as the curia. It even included on its board victims of clerical abuse.
Pope Francis obituary

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Peter Stanford

The election of Jorge Mario Bergoglio as pope in March 2013 was unexpected, even to the then cardinal archbishop of Buenos Aires himself. He may have come a distant second in the previous papal conclave in 2005, but at 76 and, following the resignation on the grounds of old age of the candidate who had come first back then, the 85-year-old Benedict XVI – Bergoglio was convinced that a younger man was needed.
I understand why people are angry

1 month ago | msn.com | Peter Stanford

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I understand why people are angry

1 month ago | msn.com | Peter Stanford

Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
I understand why people are angry

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Peter Stanford

Reform UK, riding high in the polls, is calling for an end to net zero altogether, blaming it for high energy bills and deindustrialisation. According to deputy leader Richard Tice, the current push towards renewable energy is a "massive con". "I understand why people are angry," says Pinchbeck, who was head of Energy UK, the trade body of the big energy companies, before she joined the CCC last November.
Chine McDonald: Mary and the myth of perfect motherhood

1 month ago | thetablet.co.uk | Peter Stanford

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'I was propositioned for sex by a TV director at 22'

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Peter Stanford

The presenter and 'apprentice farmer' on sexism, the rural-urban divide, and why she doesn't need children to feel fulfilled in her lifeKate Humble has been up all night doing the lambing on her Wye Valley farm in Monmouthshire. And now, she explains apologetically, she just has to pop out into the kitchen to check on the bread she is baking. "It is all sounding very Felicity Kendal," she jokes with her trademark broad, toothy grin as she disappears.
Robert Harris: If I wrote a book about Trump, no one would believe it

2 months ago | yahoo.com | Peter Stanford

Robert Harris will not be at the Oscar ceremony on Sunday night to see if the screen adaptation of his novel Conclave lands Best Picture. “Not invited,” he says, “though I was at the Baftas” (where the film won four prizes, including Best Film).