Ashley Hirst Writing on community, artificial intelligence and insurance

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Community
10 September 2026

Dis-establishment by stealth, or How to live with difference

The bar on Catholics and Jews advising the King on bishops is not an insult to Catholics and Jews. It is the seam that holds the established church apart from the state. If you want to unpick it, say so, and let us argue.

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Community
8 September 2026

Hath Not a Jew Votes?

Apply your Moroccan standard, or your Turkish one, or your Crimean one, but apply one standard.

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Community · Note
12 November 2020

On Rabbi Sacks and the Jewish library

A mental image of the Jewish intellectual space — and what it meant to lose the person who stood by the open French window between Jewish and non-Jewish thought.

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