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Iconic clerics from the vicar of Dibley to Archdeacon Grantly can be a source of comfort for us real ones

The reviews for the new film Wonka are somewhat mixed. Some critics have been impressed with the musical fantasy imagining the early days of Willy Wonka from Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Others say it’s appallingly “sugary and sentimental”. Two words that would never come to mind concerning Roald Dahl himself, who specialised in depicting cruelty and was, as I can testify, a man who possessed the most repugnant anti-Semitic ideas.

An intelligent person should be able to distinguish between creator and creation

You know how it goes – someone, somewhere, buys the Italian cake, from where it embarks on a long circumnavigation of various friends and family

The judge on “The Great British Baking Show,” whose new book is “Bliss on Toast,” recommends “The Joy of Cooking” along with M.F.K. Fisher and Elizabeth David: “Both the latter are a real pleasure to read.”