Absolute happiness
'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness'.. - Melville Cooke

Sleaze in Canada
MONTEZUMA HAD his revenge. So now, it seems, has Jean Chretien. The former prime minister of Canada was bumped rather unceremoniously from his throne by his finance minister, Paul Martin, back in 2003. - John Rapley

Chief Inquisitor, Chief Bishop
ON THE very day that Deacon Espeut was lashing my column, 'After John Paul II', 'fundamentalists' and me on page 8, a splendid Reuters report, 'Ratzinger selected as new pope', was run on page two. - Martin Henry