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matruman.bsky.social
Former editor, Taxation Magazine; former LLM (Reader) Church of England; current PhD candidate researching implicit religion and lived theology in The Repair Shop.
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This is just absolutely perfect. Kennedy destroys Lutnick and vividly illustrates the absurdity of the Trump trade policy. bsky.app/profile/atru...

submitted 6 days ago • 251 comments

Fact: Each year, 27 million passengers fly from our airport. If they all joined hands around the equator, most would drown. Idiots.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

to be honest, whatever the medieval cathedrals cost to construct in relative terms to the wealth of the people at the time, it was in fact worth it we do these things, humans. thousands of people, enormous cost to make something that speaks aloud what we believe and who we want to be.

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

I would die for Biscuit

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

I run a not for profit, fair trade, business Made in Bethlehem (which does what it says on the tin…). If any #CofEpeeps are looking for ordination gifts this Petertide, I have this lovely olive wood chalice and paten for £60. Only the one available. #narthex

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Church House Bookshop, Westminster's hidden gem, is back home on Great Smith Street with a lovely new look. The best, and the friendliest, theological bookshop in London.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

From a disinformation and media literacy perspective, this completely vile piece of writing is a really interesting modern artefact. statedept.substack.com/p/the-need-f... Why on earth would *the US Department of State* need a *Substack* to write nonsensical and vaguely fascistic *op eds*?

submitted 14 days ago • 10 comments

Quite right from Sir Mick Davis. "The discomfort of scrutiny is a prerequisite for democracy." www.jpost.com/opinion/arti...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

🌟New article / rant for @theconversation.com 🌟 Why it's NOT true to say "everyone's a bit Autistic" theconversation.com/everyone-isn...

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

This reminds me of my favourite Chatham House rule story 🧵 Way back in the pre-crash boom period, Gordon Brown as Chancellor hosted one of his big global investment conferences at the QEII in London. Muggins here, a junior Treasury official, had a cheap seat as one of the organisers…1/

submitted 22 days ago • 5 comments

Nor do you get growth from keep cutting public spending. There really is an intellectual incoherence at the heart of this administration which is going to destroy it.

submitted 23 days ago • 8 comments

Mums attendance allowance has run out and i need to reapply for her. The form is 32 pages long with 65 questions.... this is designed to stop people from applying. Bastards.

submitted 23 days ago • 6 comments

Even if you think genocide is not the right word, you should be able to see why people use it: the scale of devastation, death, blockade. If you can't, and you are offended, then either 1. You've kept yourself ignorant 2. You don't care if it's true or not 3. You think Palestinians deserve it

submitted 26 days ago • 6 comments