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[Poster's note: Telegraph news story and leading editorial on the subject.] Modern isn't the same as good, Prime MinisterBy Tom Utley(Filed: 14/06/2003) You can tell a lot about the sort of person you are from your reaction to the news that Tony Blair is to brush away the 1,400-year-old office of Lord Chancellor, with a flick of his wrist. Did you, like the Guardian, rub your hands together and think: "Yippee! That's one in the eye for the old fogeys! At last Britain will be able to hold up its head in the modern world"?Or did you, like me, feel...

Charles Moore talks to Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, at Lambeth PalaceQ: Have you ever not believed in God? A: No. There's never been a time when I've been an unbeliever. There have been times when I have not been able to make much sense of it but I never had a period right outside the Church. Q: But the Church for you wasn't originally the Anglican Church, was it? A: No, it was the Presbytarian Church of Wales. Q: Were you conscious of a change, or was it just family circumstances? A: It was a bit more...