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It is rarely easy to determine which events in history will prove to be seismic, and yet it is hard to frame the events of the past fortnight as anything other than a watershed moment: we have no precedent</p><div class='dateSeperatorMain'></div><p class='articleDate articleDateMain'>22 Nov 2024</p></div></a></div><div class='seperator'></div><div class='categorySubArticles'><a href='/articles/2024/15-november/comment/leader-comment/leader-comment-lessons-learned'><div class='image'><img src='/media/2091/ct_masthead_black-text-copy.jpg?center=0.38562091503267976,0.50390625&mode=crop&width=572&height=292&rnd=133730270840000000' /></div><div class='content'><h2>Leader comment: Lessons learned?</h2><p>WITH social media alight with resignation demands, an online petition gathering steam, and journalists canvassing his colleagues, the days leading up to the Archbishop of Canterbury’s announcement on Tuesday afternoon carried all the hallmarks of a ministerial career on the brink</p><div 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matters</h2><div class='dateSeperator'></div><p class='articleDate'>01 Nov 2024</p></div></a></div><div class='categoryArticleSnippets'><a href='/articles/2024/25-october/comment/leader-comment/leader-comment-down-under-the-debate-continues'><div class='image'><img src='/media/2091/ct_masthead_black-text-copy.jpg?center=0.38562091503267976,0.50390625&mode=crop&width=292&height=168&rnd=133730270840000000' /></div><div class='content'><h2>Leader comment: Down under: the debate continues</h2><div class='dateSeperator'></div><p class='articleDate'>25 Oct 2024</p></div></a></div><div class='categoryArticleSnippets'><a href='/articles/2024/18-october/comment/leader-comment/leader-comment-vacant-posts'><div class='image'><img src='/media/2091/ct_masthead_black-text-copy.jpg?center=0.38562091503267976,0.50390625&mode=crop&width=292&height=168&rnd=133730270840000000' /></div><div class='content'><h2>Leader comment: Vacant posts</h2><div class='dateSeperator'></div><p class='articleDate'>18 Oct 2024</p></div></a></div><div class='seperator'></div><div class='categoryArticleSnippets'><a href='/articles/2024/11-october/comment/leader-comment/leader-comment-now-is-not-the-time-for-assisted-dying'><div class='image'><img src='/media/2091/ct_masthead_black-text-copy.jpg?center=0.38562091503267976,0.50390625&mode=crop&width=292&height=168&rnd=133730270840000000' /></div><div class='content'><h2>Leader comment: Now is not the time for assisted dying</h2><div class='dateSeperator'></div><p class='articleDate'>11 Oct 2024</p></div></a></div><div class='categoryArticleSnippets'><a href='/articles/2024/4-october/comment/leader-comment/leader-comment-surviving-soul-survivor'><div class='image'><img src='/media/2091/ct_masthead_black-text-copy.jpg?center=0.38562091503267976,0.50390625&mode=crop&width=292&height=168&rnd=133730270840000000' /></div><div class='content'><h2>Leader comment: Surviving Soul Survivor</h2><div class='dateSeperator'></div><p class='articleDate'>04 Oct 2024</p></div></a></div><div class='categoryArticleSnippets'><a href='/articles/2024/27-september/comment/leader-comment/leader-comment-in-praise-of-unity-just-as-i-break-away'><div class='image'><img src='/media/2091/ct_masthead_black-text-copy.jpg?center=0.38562091503267976,0.50390625&mode=crop&width=292&height=168&rnd=133730270840000000' /></div><div class='content'><h2>Leader comment: In praise of unity (just as I break away)</h2><div class='dateSeperator'></div><p class='articleDate'>27 Sep 2024</p></div></a></div><div class='categoryInline seperator'><div class='hymnsMarketingPlaceholder' data-advert-type='5' data-is-homepage='0' style='display:none'></div><div class='hymnsMarketingPlaceholder' data-advert-type='5' data-is-homepage='0' style='display:none'></div></div><div class='categoryArticleSnippets'><a href='/articles/2024/20-september/comment/leader-comment/leader-comment-back-in-the-ring-in-the-climate-fight'><div class='image'><img 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