England gave the world many great gifts. It gave us the Magna Carta, parliamentary democracy, Shakespeare, Newton, and George Orwell, whose 1984 warned of the terrifying inversion of truth into falsehood.
Yet England also exported one of Europe’s darkest ideas: the blood libel against the Jewish people....
The former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, has accused Vladimir Putin of “heresy” after the Russian President claimed his invasion of Ukraine was a “holy...