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Time to rise again

31 March 2018

9:00 AM

31 March 2018

9:00 AM

I bought a different brand of diary for this year, and it has dropped Easter. Easter Day is plain Sunday 1 April. An April Fool’s joke? I’d say more a metaphor of the state of our ‘pluralist’ society. The most sacred festival of the year for those people (still a majority in this country) who consider themselves Christian, and the diary doesn’t want to know.

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