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The rich get richer ...

IT’S BACK TO THE THIRTIES Huge inequalities in society are unjust and deeply damaging, says Stewart Lansley

Bring people together with a new moral purpose, says Christopher Jamison

Voodoo, pythons and the Pope David Willey’s diary of Benedict XVI’s African tour Flame of desire Laurentia Johns begins her Advent meditations

PLUS JIMMY BURNS ON SPAIN’S NEW GOVERNMENT • CHRISTOPHER HOWSE - CAN POETRY REPLACE RELIGION?