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Ordinary people outside hotels raging at ordinary people inside them: that’s the tragedy of this refugee controversy

Anyone who has met refugees sees the ordinariness of their hopes and dreams. If we reject their humanity, how can we be proud of ourselves, asks former archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams

The Guardian - UK

Ex-archbishop of Canterbury urges cathedrals to ditch banks funding fossil fuels

Dr Rowan Williams said he would like to see more cathedrals switching or committing to switch to greener banks.

Evening Standard

The Charity Commission must amend its report on Kids Company

Letter: This week’s judicial review should bring justice for the late charity founder Camila Batmanghelidjh, write Chris Martin, Joanna Lumley, Joy Madeiros, Susie Orbach, Rowan Williams and Alan Yentob

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Economic growth for its own sake is ruining Britain

Letters: Philip Wood, Daniel Scharf and Sheila Triggs respond to an article by Rowan Williams calling for a refocusing of Labour’s goals on wellbeing, not wealth

The Guardian - UK

When politicians tell us to focus on growth we need to ask: ‘Why, and for whom?’

Isolate growth from public good and you are simply planning for breakdown. My research shows that a resilient society should be rooted in wellbeing, not wealth, says former archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams

The Guardian - UK

City skyline to get huge new skyscraper next to Liverpool St station

The Brookfield scheme will deliver almost 100,000 sq m of office and other commercial space

Evening Standard

99 Bishopsgate: Huge new skyscraper in the City of London set for approval

Plans for new 54 storey tower have faced opposition amid fears it could harms views of St Paul’s Cathedral

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People everywhere are head down, lost in the oblivion of infinite scroll. Just stop and let the moment breathe

The pull of our feeds reduces our capacity to be present. Practising relaxed attentiveness – or prayer – can bring us back to what really matters

The Guardian - AU

What happens now the archbishop of Canterbury has resigned?

Justin Welby’s departure sets in train a process involving the monarch, the PM and a 17-strong voting panel

The Guardian - UK

Lib Dems put God on trial in court case of deselected Christian candidate

A deselected Christian candidate who is suing the Lib Dems has been told by the party that he must prove the truth of his faith in court

The Independent UK

Former archbishop warns it may be ‘impossible’ to represent the Lib Dems and be Christian

As the Lib Dems gather to meet in Brighton for their annual conference, a legal dispute over the way a candidate was deselected for his Christian beliefs has seen the party disavow two of the giants in its recent history, Charles Kennedy and Shirley Williams

The Independent UK

Axing of Cambridge mixed choir ‘regressive move for women’, say supporters

Open letter backed by Rowan Williams and Aled Jones says decision is backward step ‘for arts provision for women in the UK’

The Guardian - UK

Northern Ireland will leave the union, and Scotland could too. True devolution is the only way to save it

Yes, there are leadership crises everywhere, but make no mistake: the UK’s future rests on devolving more powers, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Guardian - UK

Remember the tenacity of 400,000 Welsh women a century ago. Then use your power to shape events today

As we celebrate the return to Wales of the peace petition sent to the US in the 1920s, we should also harness its spirit of togetherness , says former archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams

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Nick Cave speaks out against boycotting songs because of creators’ actions

Australian musician told Hay festival we should not ‘eradicate the best of these people in order to punish the worst of them’

Wales Online

'Wales isn’t known in parts of the world and that doesn’t create opportunities'

For the past year, the independent commission has been gathering evidence on how Wales is currently governed

Bangkok Post

Artificial idiocy and the rise of the chatbots

There is nothing new about "chatbots" that are capable of maintaining a conversation in natural language, understanding a user's basic intent, and offering responses based on preset rules and data. But the capacity of such chatbots has been dramatically augmented in recent months, leading to handwringing and panic in many…

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Residents react as Whitley Bay is named the best place to live in Northern England by The Times

The seaside town has been recognised as the best place to live for the first time, and the people of Whitley Bay are ecstatic

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Gordon Brown's report on UK constitutional reform treats Wales as an afterthought

In one of the rare references to Wales, the report alludes to “the Welsh Assembly Government” – a title that was discarded more than a decade ago

The Guardian - UK

The week in audio: The Reith Lectures; The Cost of Happiness: Tony Hsieh; Teamistry: The Untold Story of Concorde; i-Dentity

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie shows Rowan Williams how to give a proper lecture. Plus, history lessons from Concorde to club nights

The National (Scotland)

Welsh independence a 'viable' constitutional option, landmark report says

THERE are “significant problems” with the way Wales is currently governed within the Union of the UK and independence is a “viable”…

The Independent UK

Rushdie’s Satanic Verses would probably not be published today, says Adichie

Sir Salman’s fourth novel led to death threats in Iran in the 1980s.

The Guardian - UK

Rowan Williams urges wealthy to stump up cash for climate fund

Former archbishop of Canterbury says richest nations and individuals must take lead on ‘loss and damage’

The Independent UK

‘Shocking reality’: Food banks could close this winter because of energy bills

UK likely to see some charities being ‘forced to stop feeding the hungry’, warns Gordon Brown

The Guardian - UK

Ronald Blythe at 100: ‘A watchful, curious and gratefully amazed vision of life’

A life rooted in Suffolk has given the great nature writer Ronald Blythe a deep love of the countryside

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