Although every now and then he can’t help himself, for example, when he brings up the suggestion that Henry VIII was responsible for the Drab Age because he had the heads cut off …

Oct 14, 2025 · “Can there be a better example of the philistine supremacy than the graffiti in Canterbury Cathedral? Again and again we see that the people who are in charge impose …

Oct 16, 2025 · (ANALYSIS) In ordinary times, the arrival of a new archbishop of Canterbury would be a headline that stood alone, especially if England's monarch had just approved the first …

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The US vice-president JD Vance has criticised a graffiti–style art installation at Canterbury Cathedral for making a “beautiful historical building really ugly”, while Elon Musk has called it …

Oct 10, 2025 · Vance and Musk attack ‘shameful’ graffiti art at Canterbury Cathedral US vice president leads criticism of display with one church figure saying it ‘belonged in a car park’

Oct 11, 2025 · Even apart from its ugliness, every message in the Canterbury Cathedral graffiti exhibit is postmodern question-posing slop. Nothing faith-affirming. The medium very much of …

Oct 15, 2025 · Canterbury Cathedral is a vast, cruciform structure combining Norman Romanesque solidity with the soaring lightness of Early English Gothic. It stands as one of the …

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Oct 14, 2025 · A Los Angeles-based writer reflected in an October article that this year’s annual Catholic Mass at the now-Anglican Canterbury Cathedral in the United Kingdom was …