Charlie Lee-Potter
Articles by Charlie Lee-Potter
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Society
It's a woman's job now
- 26 June 2006
The opponents of female ordination have lost the war: 50 per cent of those entering training for the priesthood are now women. Before long, they will be in the majority, reports Charlie Lee-Potter
Society
The homeless deserve new books, too
- 19 December 2005
You wouldn't give a friend a second-hand gift, so why a stranger in need?
Books
Sweat and soil
- 06 June 2005
The Farm: the story of one family and the English countryside Richard Benson Hamish Hamilton, 230pp, £15.99 ISBN 0241142229
Society
Can celebrity endorsement save the planet?
- 28 February 2005
Fair trade special - Any charity appeal now wants a celebrity backer, plus T-shirts and wristbands. This raises hard questions about the stars' motives - and ours. Report
Society
Why everybody's got a headache tonight
- 01 January 2005
2005: The decline of sex - A girl's dream date is now seductive music, candlelight . . . and yoga for one. Blame IVF, two-career families, stress and all that talk of equality
Books
The good life
- 07 June 2004
News from Somewhere: on settling Roger Scruton Continuum, 177pp, £16.99 ISBN 0826469302
Politics
The real roots of Middle England
- 24 May 2004
Scared of modernity, obsessed with tidy houses, they call the lower orders orcs (or is it oiks?). What do the Hobbits remind you of?
Society
No room for the dead
- 29 March 2004
Thanks to the Victorians' ban on reusing graves, both urban and rural cemeteries are crammed and burial is becoming a rich man's pastime. Charlie Lee-Potter digs around for an alternative
Society
The sweet scent of carbon monoxide
- 08 March 2004
Tony Blair once admitted to Charlie Lee-Potter that he longed to move to the countryside, but Cherie wouldn't have it. Which makes them a typical couple. It's men who long for meadows; women prefer tarmac
