Paul Vallely



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Full name: Paul Vallely CMG

Area of interest: Ethics, culture and politics

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Current position/role: Associate Editor at The Independent


 * also writes/written for: The Church Times and Third Way Magazine

Other roles/Main role: Director of The Tablet

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Awards/Honours: created a Companion of St Michael and St George (CMG) "for services to journalism and to the developing world" on 17 June 2006. 2008 Orwell Prize for political writing (shortlisted)

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 * Mother Teresa may deserve to be made a saint. But why now? - Canonising in haste is a big mistake. As time passes, a candidate’s weaknesses fade from public memory - 31st August 2016
 * Is the pope serious about confronting child abuse? - Pope Francis promised zero tolerance of paedophile priests, but his actions don’t yet match his words - 15th February 2016
 * Has Pope Francis just cast the first vote in the US presidential race? - An implicit papal endorsement of Democratic party policy might prove crucial among America’s Catholics in November next year - 29th September 2015
 * The truth of the Vatileaks scandal is that there is no scandal - The pope is an uncompromising operator and his new broom at the Holy See is ruthless when it comes to cleaning up the finances - 6th November 2015
 * Rotherham abuse report: protection is what matters, not blame - The scale of the sexual exploitation revealed in the Jay inquiry is shocking, but let's avoid racial stereotyping - 27th August 2014
 * For the first time, the Holy Land will witness a fearless pope - Unlike his predecessors, Pope Francis won't hide his sympathies for the Palestinians on his Middle East visit this weekend - 23rd May 2014
 * Noah has returned to save us from ourselves - Every era needs its own Noah. It is a way of holding a mirror to the age - 6th April 2014
 * Why the Pope is sprinkling stardust on Obama - The President needs a mid-term boost. In return he must back a list of international priorities - 28th March 2014
 * Pope Francis should give us a break from this flurry of papal saints - Elevating John XXIII and John Paul II to sainthood is political and divisive. It's time the church closed its dead popes society - 30th September 2013



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 * Fifteen-minute home-care visits are indefensible, so why do we allow them to happen? - The next cohort will be different. The baby boomers have a far stronger sense of entitlement - 31st January 2016
 * Our modern-day Massacre of the Innocents - Children all over the world are suffering as a result of the cruelty and inhumanity of adults - 28th December 2015
 * Shaker Aamer released: Another prisoner let out. Another empty promise on torture - The Government promises to end a barbaric practice, but it’s taking an age to acknowledge how complicit the UK is - 1st November 2015
 * Two faces and a forked tongue: The key components of a political toolkit - David Cameron tells China to invest in the UK and profit, but tells himself not to invest and so save money - 25th October 2015
 * Refugee crisis: Suddenly everyone agrees 'something must be done.' But what? - The British government has a creditable record helping refugees in countries bordering Syria. If only that were enough... - 6th September 2015
 * Calais migrant crisis: We're looking in the wrong place to solve this problem - Instead of sending dogs and police, we need to extend a helping hand, as other European countries have - 2nd August 2015
 * Mediterranean migrant crisis: Where has Britain's altruism gone? - The Government's refusal to take any of the boat people arriving on European shores is a symptom of a broader malaise - 27th June 2015
 * Ireland gay marriage: The Church's decision not to lead the No campaign marks a new reality - In less than three decades, the church has lost its grip on the Irish - 24th May 2015
 * Lord Janner: Justice has to be seen to be done – even in the case of the Labour peer - A court should have decided if he was fit to stand trial on charges of child abuse - 26th April 2015
 * Ebola crisis: Beyond the money, this forces our leaders to take action - The more singles Band Aid 30 sells, the more seriously our political masters will fight Ebola. So buy the record - 15th December 2014
 * Ebola is a political AND a medical disease - As Bob Geldof is at pains to point out, the purpose of the Band Aid single is to maximise pressure on politicians - 22nd November 2014
 * A move that will bring yet more deaths for Africa's desperate boat people - The Government claims that knowing they will be rescued is what encourages migrants – but this is based on flawed logic - 2nd November 2014
 * The Ebola outbreak and Boko Haram prove that different rules apply in Africa - Thousands are dying from the virus, and the Islamist fanatics terrorising Nigeria, but the West is not that concerned - 5th October 2014
 * Ian Paisley: humanity got the better of the bigot - Forgiveness and redemption became more than theological concepts - 14th September 2014
 * Rotherham child sexual abuse scandal - the lessons: We need solutions, not scapegoats - The media's blame game is avoiding the issue of safeguarding - 31st August 2014
 * Israel-Gaza conflict: Israel's mowing of Gaza's lawn is an unjust war - The means must be in proportion to the end. In this, Israel has been found wanting - 10th August 2014
 * The microbe is mightier than the market - Appointing an economist to save us from superbugs might seem odd but, as with many problems, money is at the root of it - 6th July 2014
 * If something is wrong, do you dare say so? - My car stopped in traffic the other day by a bus stop at which a young mum sat, earphones in, che..... - 22nd June 2014
 * Looking for my Dad on the D-Day beaches - Would we rise to the challenge, as the Second World War's generation did? We'd struggle to identify a worthy cause - 8th June 2014
 * We need real sleep, not the laptop kind - Our age-old slumber patterns play a complex role in the body's productivity, and no drugs or machines can fill the gap - 18th May 2014
 * Meat is all about money, not morality - The hysteria over halal chicken has nothing to do with animal welfare. It's phoney outrage that tastes of Islamophobia - 11th May 2014
 * The 96 reasons the jokes about Liverpool are wearing thin - The abusive comments posted about the dead are shocking – but not as surprising as they should be - 27th April 2014
 * The church has lost its way on the road to gay marriage - Since Victorian times, when marrying for love became commonplace, this weekend’s change has been inevitable - 30th March 2014
 * Ukraine crisis: Is the West trying to upset the Russians? - This is not the Cold War. Ukraine should not be forced to take sides, but the EU and US are behaving provocatively on Moscow's doorstep - 16th March 2014
 * Pope Francis - the first year: Is the rebel too good to be true? - He is cleaning up the Vatican bank. He thinks the Catholic Church should worry less about homosexuality and more about the poor - 8th March 2014
 * Northern Ireland: The responses, not the IRA amnesties, damage peace - The slow running peace process in Northern Ireland has not been helped by the posturing on all sides after the IRA amnesty revelations - 2nd March 2014
 * Prince Charles is right about climate change - Ignoring global warming and its causes is a comforting path for politicians paralysed by self-interest and the consolations of denial - 2nd February 2014
 * As 'Benefits Street' shows, we are quick to demonise and slow to understand - In its attempt to chase ratings, the Channel 4 programme merely reinforces stereotypes about people who rely on the state - 12th January 2014
 * Pope Francis can heal the Catholic Church - 'Time' magazine's Person of the Year appeals to believers and atheists alike with a message that could bring redemption to a troubled faith - 29th December 2013
 * Comic Relief scandal: There are red faces behind the red noses - The charity is under fire after a ‘Panorama’ exposé, but the laws governing investments are complex - 15th December 2013
 * Scientology: If religions don’t need a God, what do they need? - We have got to the point where individuals can pretty much define it as they want - 12th December 2013
 * Brutalised men do brutal things - It is understandable, if inexcusable, that men such as Marine A, who will be sentenced this week for murdering an Afghan, overstep the mark - 1st December 2013
 * Wanted: A vision for two-thirds of the UK and the chance for David Cameron to polish his tarnished green credentials - The PM has a chance to revitalise the countryside - but his recent record suggests he has other priorities - 24th November 2013
 * Our love of soap opera is a real killer - The collective urge to simplify events such as the Baby P case means these grim tragedies will continue to happen – and make headlines - 3rd November 2013
 * Politicians must share our shame over neglect of Britain's elderly - Jeremy Hunt is right. We need to tackle the neglect and loneliness of old people, but he is looking at the issue through rose-tinted glasses - 20th October 2013
 * Pope Francis is launching a Vatican Spring - This week his committee of eight cardinals began work on a radical reform of the scandal-hit Vatican - 5th October 2013
 * Sex Box: Can TV ever take sex seriously and without titillation? - There is something inescapably voyeuristic about this piece of reality TV - 24th September 2013
 * Whatever happened to climate change? - Despite the overwhelming consensus among scientists, the media are letting politicians off the hook – and the deniers are taking advantage - 22nd September 2013
 * The good, the bad and global inertia - The answer to disagreement at the UN is not to break international law but to keep looking for consensus. It's difficult, but not impossible - 8th September 2013
 * Heroes and villains – a modern definition - Whistleblowers are vilified or intimidated while the wrongs and the wrongdoers that they expose go uninvestigated - 25th August 2013
 * Bongo Bongo Land: His Excellency the Ambassador replies - After Godfrey Bloom's outburst on foreign aid, our writer is copied in on a confidential letter to David Cameron - 11th August 2013
 * Pope Francis puts people first and dogma second. Is this really the new face of Catholicism? - 'Gay' was not a word which would even pass the lips of his predecessor, Benedict XVI - 1st August 2013
 * The Oxford child sex abuse case shows how the media talks in stereotypes but misses the big picture - Muslim community activists are not given enough credit for challenging distorted notions of masculinity - 19th May 2013
 * The Oxford child sex abuse verdict highlights a cultural problem, but not a specifically Muslim one - Parallels between the Oxford case and last year’s case in Rochdale raise some difficult questions. But the issues are much more complex than they seem - 15th May 2013
 * On a one-way street to social inequality - Lashing out at the freakshow of Mick Philpott won't solve the problems of our overstretched welfare system - 7th April 2013
 * Humility has had a bad press. It could be ripe for a comeback - The new Pope prompts Paul Vallely to consider an unfashionable virtue in an age of individualism - 17th March 2013
 * Pope Francis I: a humble man who moved out of archiepiscopal palace into a simple apartment - The extent of the revolution which has just taken place in the Catholic Church was evident when the new Pope stepped out on to the balcony of St Peters around an hour after the white smoke had emerged from the chimney of the Sistine chapel and the mighty bells of the Vatican pealed out - 14th March 2013
 * Keep your redactions. We want the whole truth - These Byzantine structures are riddled with secrecy, privilege, careerism, intrigue... - 10th March 2013
 * A conclave haunted by the pope next door - Insiders are ready for a factious, fractious conclave... 10 men are in with a chance - 3rd March 2013
 * Bruce Reynolds, mastermind behind Great Train Robbery, dies aged 81 - Bruce Reynolds never captured the public imagination in the way that his fellow Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs did - 1st March 2013
 * Cardinal Keith O'Brien has been sacked by the Pope, rather than left to retire - At last winds of change blow through the Vatican - 26th February 2013
 * Do the math: peace is cheaper than war - War destroys people, roads, farms, water supplies... and creates havens for terrorists - 24th February 2013
 * Benedict XVI turned out to be a pope of surprises – a tradition he maintained with his shock decision to resign - Greatest weakness may have been loyalty to the church’s old clandestine self-protective culture - 12th February 2013
 * Don't blame me. I'm only the boss - No one will be punished for the deaths at Stafford – it was the fault of 'the culture'. And those in charge at the time have been... promoted - 10th February 2013
 * Paradox player who is modestly vain - David Beckham's move to France is the latest of his self-promoting gestures. Or is it the engaging act of a thoroughly nice guy? - 3rd February 2013
 * Political tinkering is the enemy of education - For a self-styled visionary Mr Gove demonstrates a paucity of imagination - 27th January 2013
 * Don't go to war over a band of zealots - Alarming as the hostage crisis in Algeria is, memories of Iraq teach us that this is no reason to make an already volatile area more unstable - 20th January 2013
 * Savile's escape has put our public institutions on trial - From his own relatives to BBC executives and charities, those who could have stopped the abuse had incentives not to ask questions - 13th January 2013
 * The case for an independent Falklands - In 30 years' time, a Spanish-speaking president may be in the White House - 6th January 2013
 * Where there’s hope – life after terror - Returning former child soldiers to their families is only the beginning of a long process of psychological reintegration - 4th January 2013
 * Can these men restore trust in our public institutions? - Hopes are high for lasting change as the Bank of England, the BBC and the Church of England welcome new heads in 201 - 30th December 2012
 * HMG's response to corruption? More secrecy - When a new James Bond film hits the screens, an expert is wheeled out to opine that 007's "licence..... - 16th December 2012
 * The NHS was forged from care, not box-ticking - At Stafford hospital, the guidelines were fulfilled, but patients died needlessly - 9th December 2012
 * Rwanda's dark past is no reason to withhold aid - A country trying to mend itself needs more, not less, help - 2nd December 2012
 * Manners makyth man. Etiquette's just nonsense - The idea of social cohesion is under threat from modern eating practices - 25th November 2012
 * There is worse to come in Gaza - The Arab Spring has shifted alliances in the Middle East, bringing new dangers to this latest Israel-Palestinian conflict - 18th November 2012
 * The whole thing is shabby and badly thought out - Roy Warren, a candidate for police commissioner in Manchester, is battling a tide of voter apathy - 14th November 2012
 * Why I won't be voting for a police commissioner - Anyone who has spent time in the US is aware of the dangers of politicised policing - 11th November
 * The Brothers Obama – who's the role model now? - Barack and George were saint and sinner. But as the President's term of office closes, they appear to be exchanging roles - 27th October 2012
 * Football's custodians drag their feet - This is not the kind of thing a white man should say. But Jason Roberts seems to have got it wrong - 21st October 2012
 * The ultimate heroism is forgiving the enemy - We tell three stories about how a human being can respond to barbarity. One is the tragedy of revenge - 14th October 2012
 * Rock'n'roll beats 'shaken not stirred' - Paul Vallely weighs up Sixties beacons James Bond and The Beatles - 7th October 2012
 * Legacy of a gentle rose cut down in hate - Why did drunken teens kill a young goth? - 30th September 2012
 * Richardson – not a prince of darkness, just a bully - Dead or alive, the sad or sadistic are glamorised - 23rd September 2012
 * A few individuals have shown what integrity means - The independent report on Hillsborough demonstrated that only those outside the usual authorities persisted in getting to the truth - 16th September 2012
 * What that Nokia ad was really about - They are not selling products so much as association: power, glamour or success - 9th September 2012
 * Exams not fit for purpose? Neither are you, Mr Gove - Ill-timed and ill-judged, Education Secretary's assault on GCSEs is the failure - 2nd September 2012
 * Breivik was narcissistic and racist - but sane - There was something unutterably banal about the defendant's chubby face and silly pencil beard - 26th August 2012
 * Euston, we have a problem - There are only two ways to make more money from the railways - increase fares or cut staff - 19th August 2012
 * Sometimes the only person to beat is yourself - The expectations of the public, says Rebecca Adlington, can be different from those of the athlete - 12th August 2012
 * Will's right - better a witty fool than a foolish wit - Too much modern wit is merely paradox for its own sake - or oxymorons for the oxymoronic - 5th August 2012
 * Power needs more courage than opposition - 'Dialogue has replaced conflict,' said McGuinness. 'And respect has replaced mistrust' - 29th July 2012
 * How to change the Bollinger mindset - Rules to promote trust, in practice, undermine it - 1st July 2012
 * The planet looked to Rio again, and Rio looked away - We may now need a bottom-up mass movement of individuals to get real progress on saving the planet - 24th June 2012
 * The Russians will help us in Syria only if we help them - The danger is that Syria could turn into all-out sectarian war - 17th June 2012
 * Spain – too big to fail, not too big to bail - A run on the banks has, in effect, started in Spain and Greece - 3rd June 2012
 * America and Pakistan do their dance of death - The countries are not bitter enemies so much as bitter allies - 27th May
 * Greek lessons that Cameron really should heed - The Prime Minister's rhetoric on austerity sends one message to European leaders, but he is doing the opposite at home - 20th May 2012
 * Add a few irrelevant facts, stir and let prejudice do the rest - To focus on the wrong aspect of the Rochdale child-grooming cases would do a disservice to other vulnerable children - 13th May 2012
 * Big trouble hits British asparagus - Cooks must make do with... foreign brands - 6th May 2012
 * Cheap music brings out the best in us - Admiring our ability to feel the pain of strangers - 29th April 2012
 * Shakespeare gets top billing, but we ignore the rest of the cast - English is shot through with the Bard's words and phrases, but what of his harder plays, and the work of his successors? - 22nd April 2012
 * Sanctions helped give Burma a new start - Withholding trade does work on intransigent regimes, and now it could force President Assad to back down in Syria - 15th April 2012
 * Our extradition treaty is unjust - The number of British citizens in US jails shows how lopsided is the current arrangement between this country and America - 1st April 2012
 * A tax on bargain booze is a cheap trick - Raising the price of cheap alcohol fails to address the alarming rise in problem drinking among the middle classes - 25th March 2012
 * From across the Pond, Murdoch looks even murkier - Rupert Murdoch's luck may be running out, judging by a conversation I had with a group of British and US lawyers - 18th March 2012
 * That's me – at the pinnacle of evolution - Our writer relishes middle age. It means he is in his prime... - 11th March 2012
 * How did care became a four-letter word? - Attitudes, not words, convey disrespect - 4th March 2012
 * Why the West pussyfoots around Assad - Talk of the 'complexity and nuances' of the Syrian case has led to political paralysis, and will do nothing to help the city of Homs - 26th February 2012
 * There's something about Harry - The geezer name that can shape the way you live - 12th February 2012
 * Must honour really be a thing of the past? - We would do well to recall an age when those embarrassed by their own behaviour did the right thing before it became unavoidable - 5th February 2012
 * Fairness for the rich, nothing for the poor - The Government is adopting the language of the playground when it talks about being fair - let's talk about being just instead - 29th January 2012
 * Maybe cowardice seems so despicable because we worry we'd also run away - Whatever human-nature defence may be offered for Captain Francesco Schettino, can we be sure that we'd do any better? - 22nd January 2012
 * Who did give the green light to torture? - When they behave disgracefully, the military are imitating a contempt for human rights found higher up the chain of command - 15th January 2012
 * Hating chavs is also a form of prejudice - Was media interest in the death of Stephen Lawrence sparked less by distaste for racism than by regard for his blameless home life? - 8th January 2012
 * The Syrians have lost their fear. Is it time for a no-fly zone? - When President Assad finally falls in Syria, will he be shot like Gaddafi in Libya, tried like Mubarak in Egypt, or flee to Saudi like Ben Ali in Tunisia? - 1st January 2012
 * War is messy, but peace is demanding - The US withdrawal from Iraq shows how much there is yet to do in Afghanistan, much of it for women and children - 18th December 2011
 * Climate change - what's your excuse? - Only a psychologist can explain why most of us believe global warming is man-made yet limit our greenness to recycling - 11th December 2011
 * War on Iran has begun. And it is madness - The parallels with Iraq are disturbing: we are convinced of a sinister threat to the West and we have a dodgy dossier to prove it - 4th December 2011
 * Why I am proud to be a British journalist - The Leveson inquiry is revealing much that is inexcusable - including the PM's behaviour - but it is not a fair reflection of our press - 27th November 2011
 * Population panic is the rich world's folly - If we really want to cut the number of people on the planet, education, not contraception, is the answer - 30th October 2011
 * The definition of fat gets wider and wider - More Britons are tipping the scales, but an acceptance of obesity, and the food industry, make national belt-tightening unlikely - 16th October 2011
 * How Steve Jobs reinvented desire - Apple's founder was no latter-day Edison or Einstein. He just knew what kept men acquiring his gadgets - 9th October 2011
 * The present is a gift to unwrap every day - In modern society we are so little exposed to death that we rush headlong into the future, forgetting that it holds our demise - 25th September 2011
 * Just what South Africa doesn't need - Julius Malema is a charismatic, reckless firebrand who wants to seize white-owned land...and he just might do it - 18th September 2011
 * Baha Mousa and the choice of living a better life - Blame is the easy bit. You can look at the death of Baha Mousa and talk of how an entire nation has been shamed by the first member of the British armed forces ever to be convicted of a war crime. But there is a more interesting question - 11th September 2011
 * A Babylon in every repressed country - The world is full of the grandiose projects of dictators who are obsessed with showing their power through architecture - 4th September 2011
 * is no moral case for tax havens'' - They are the epitome of unfairness and injustice, leaving ordinary citizens to foot the bill for multinational corporations - 28th August 2011
 * is not the answer'' - Court sentences and communities seek revenge, but that merely perpetuates a damaging cycle - 14th August 2011
 * of 1980s riots, but there have been big changes since then'' - The similarities between the rioting in London and the race riots which shocked Britain in the 1980s are striking. But they do not tell the whole story - 9th August 2011
 * moan about supermarkets – act'' - When small shops are pushed to the edge, it undermines a community that has the power to fight back - 7th August 2011
 * is not the BBC's job to judge'' - Remarks made by its political editor blurs the line between analysis and commentary - 17th July 2011
 * for learning is a costly flaw'' - While a handful of schools take the lion's share of Oxbridge places, lack of motivation and money exclude many - 10th July 2011
 * over here, take our jobs ... Actually, no'' - Iain Duncan Smith has picked up the chords to Gordon Brown's tune on immigration, because voters like that refrain - 3rd July 2011
 * Weiwei is free – but what about the rest?'' - David Cameron must keep human rights high on the agenda when he meets China's premier - 26th June 2011



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