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CofE priest in retirement. Refugee from the mess that used to be Twitter.
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Remembering Pope Francis: “We must not be taken aback by [numbers of asylum seekers], but rather view them as persons, seeing their faces and listening to their stories, trying to respond as best we can to their situation”.

Who’s wearing the wrong shit now

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The reality is that no matter how shit Labour is, if we don’t actively work to remove the threat of Reform now, it’ll be exponentially harder in the future. It’d be nice if the actual fucking government did that by not giving credence to their culture war bullshit but in lieu of that, it’s on us.

“ Keir Starmer seems to want to handle Trump’s bullying trade tactics by trying to get him to be nice to Britain... However, it isn’t possible to placate or do deals with people who are deliberately trying to undermine your fundamental core values”

It is astonishing how many of the self-professed ‘defenders of Christian culture’ attacking the transfer of St George’s day don’t get that actual Christians think that the Resurrection is quite important.

"I think we are in a moment where Jesus is a victim of identity theft. I don't know what Bible folks are reading—attacking the poor in the name of the faith." Sen. Rev. Raphael Warnock

Happy “it’s not St George’s Day til Monday” to all who celebrate.

Why not?

Requiescat in pace

Perhaps someone could now persuade the BBC to question all the shady Tufton Street thinktanks and spokespersons they wheel on at every opportunity. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...

There are so, so many reasons to do anything possible to avoid a Conservative government but this is a big one!!

This is what happens when people who know nothing about the complexities of real world systems are let loose on them www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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