Readers of The Independent may have spotted that April 25th was World Malaria Day, the only British sourced reference I have managed to find.While our politicians squabble over which party is better placed to deliver the fat of the land to British citizens, in other countries over a million people die every year from malaria. Every 30 seconds a child...
Rabu, 31 Maret 2021
Muslim Extremist Outrage
In The Telegraph today:http://www.Telegraph.Co.Uk/news/uknews/crime/7657600/Muslim-walks-free-as-court-told-Osama-bin-Laden-graffiti-not-religiously-motivated.HtmlIt is intolerable that brave heroes who gave their lives for our freedom should have their memorial treated with such utter contempt. The freedom they died for was not to allow extremists...
Campaign castrated
Before dinner I was watching the George Alagiah show at 6 o?Clock on BBC1. He referred to today?S Gordon Brown ?Bigot? Gaffe four times. First in his preamble, then in the main story which was again summarised after the mid-show break (during which gesticulating George as the star of the show shuffles and sometimes signs his papers, pretending that...
Selasa, 30 Maret 2021
Former Archbishop Prophesises Doom
The former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey, has warned that Judges risk sparking riots by making ?Disturbing and dangerous? Rulings in religious discrimination cases. What? Christians causing civil unrest in Great Britain!Other religions perhaps but surely not Christians, especially Anglicans, a significant minority of whom are used to being walked...
Leaders Debate, Round 3
The third debate was a disappointing anticlimax.Perhaps my expectations had been too high giving way to an overwhelming feeling of boredom. Regardless of the questions asked the session became a re-run of the same over-worked lines, the main variations coming from the party leaders? Deliveries.At last David Cameron delivered as people had expected...
What They Won’t Tell Us
Unlike the previous ‘Leaders’ debates I found this evening’s Election Uncovered: What They Won’t Tell Us programme on Channel 4 very illuminating and didn’t drop off once this time. I was initially concerned about an unexplained empty chair and the absence of Shirley Williams, one of my long time favourite politicians regardless of party (she was one...
Senin, 29 Maret 2021
Tory Candidate Scrapes the Barrel for Muslim Vote
If the Tory candidate for Blackburn unseats the Secretary of State for Justice in the coming election the Conservative whip is not the whip he deserves..The Telegraph reports today that he circulated a leaflet, now withdrawn on the orders of HQ, which challenges Labour?S claim to serve the Muslim vote.It says:??We cannot be deceived by their hollow...
‘X’ – How to use it wisely
Today is decision day. Some will already have cast their votes while others, unless they have an unbending party allegiance, still look for inspiration. There is no point in looking to the press, since most of the newspapers serve their paymasters not the readers.I have generally regarded the BBC as impartial but today the Mail Online runs the story:...
Bishops to Abandon the Faithful
Following the example of their close neighbours in Wales, Church of England bishops are preparing to welch on their promise to provide acceptable oversight for those who do not accept their church?S departure from traditional orthodox teaching.In the Church in Wales there was no replacement for the highly respected Provincial Assistant Bishop David...
Minggu, 28 Maret 2021
Two Faced
I found the ‘Two faces’ in my previous post amusing but being ‘two faced’ is quite a different matter particularly when people describe themselves as Christians. The majority of people in Great Britain think of themselves as Anglicans especially at times of baptism, marriage and burial but few attend church regularly and many of those who do have forgotten...
Two Faces
Oliver Letwin?S face was a picture when William Hague announced that the Tories had ?Gone the extra mile? To promise an Alternative Vote referendum. Written all over it was the sense that government was slipping from their grasp and Lord Ashcroft might ask for his money back. No surprise that the Tories made their concession only after Gordon Brown...
The Resurrection of TINA
It is time for the old Thatcherite mantra ‘There is no alternative’ to be resurrected given its relevance to the new Lib Con coalition Government, what the new Prime Minister likes to call a new form of politics.The coalition is not what one would have expected given the divide between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats but what was the alternative?...
Sabtu, 27 Maret 2021
PC Causes Death of Humour
Do you find this funny??THIS WAS NOMINATED FOR BEST JOKE OF THE YEAR - WORTH SHARINGA Somalian arrives in London as a new immigrant to the UK .He stops the first person he sees walking down the street and says ........ 'Thank you Mr. British for letting me in this country, giving me housing, money for food, free medical care, free education and no...
Absolute scum
That was not thought a fair description of two 16-year-old boys who "wrote sexual and racist graffiti on prayer books and bent an ancient St John the Baptist cross causing ?3,000 worth of damagedanquot; after being invited to have a look around the cathedral in Blackburn. On sentencing them the chairman of the bench said: "This court is disgusted by...
Whitsun Treat
Children paddling in Roath [Cardiff] during Whitsun Treat - c 1930sToday on Whit Monday in years past children would have been off on their Whitsun treat. Intrigued to see how others spent their childhood treat I ?Googled? And was surprised to find just the one image (above)...
Jumat, 26 Maret 2021
Turn the Other Cheek David
While The Daily Telegraph continues to take its few pieces of silver for disclosing what it judges to be wrongdoing, there is news from The Guardian that David Laws could play an informal role in advising Danny Alexander who replaced him as Chief Secretary to the Treasury. Good news indeed putting our recovery above self and a good lesson for The Daily...
Question Time for No 10
Full marks to the BBC for not giving into pressure from No 10 to decide who should appear on the Question Time panel.Http://news.Bbc.Co.Uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8710081.StmA small but welcome blow for the defence of freed...
Bedroom Farce
Pity poor David Laws, the latest victim of British stone throwing.He sacrificed a lucrative career as a city banker for public service. In doing so has become the latest victim of the Thatcher government?S MPs Expenses scheme. The rules were open to interpretation and many MPs have already paid the price. In a statement Laws said "At no point did I...
Kamis, 25 Maret 2021
Harriet’s Half n Half
Acting Labour leader Harriet Harman told a Unite union conference in Manchester that Labour party rules should be changed so that half the shadow cabinet are women. She said the party had more women MPs than all other parties added together but still had twice as many male MPs; it was time for Labour women to step out of the shadows.What is it about...
“One Church, one Faith, one Lord”
In my youth, our church choir used to sing the last line of each verse of Thy hand, O God, has guided, with great gusto: “one Church, one Faith, one Lord”, lingering lovingly on those last words.The fifth verse said much:And we, shall we be faithless?Shall hearts fail, hands hang down?Shall we evade the conflict,and cast away our crown?Not so: in God’s...
The Telegraph Fiddles while Britain Burns
How much more expenses poison will The Telegraph drip-feed in its attempt to kill off ministers and derail the coalition Government’s attempts to sort out our economic mess? Not satisfied with getting rid of possibly the best person for the job they are now after his successor. Who next? We must draw a line under the expenses saga.If The Telegraph...
Rabu, 24 Maret 2021
“Compassion rather than judgment”
Compassion rather than judgement was the message Dr Katharine Jefferts Schori, presiding bishop of the US Episcopal Church, wanted to leave with the congregation in Southwark Cathedral where she preached yesterday:http://www.episcopal-life.org/79425_122868_ENG_HTM.htmbut her address was self-serving. It was not so much the message that was off key...
Hatless
Mrs Jefferts Schori was allowed to preside and preach in Southwark Cathedral (see below) but she was not allowed to wear her hat.Http://blogs.Telegraph.Co.Uk/news/damianthompson/100043931/southwark-cathedral-allows-woman-bishop-to-carry-mitre-but-not-to-wear-it/That?S alright th...
Charity? - Not for WATCH
I shall not repeat what can be read here:http://www.Christiantoday.Com/article/archbishops.Proposals.On.Women.Bishops.Met.With.Mixed.Feelings/26185.HtmOf their charity the Archbishops of Canterbury and York have struggled against the tide of liberalism to find a formula that will avoid splitting the church further.As usual the women of WATCH are having...
Selasa, 23 Maret 2021
Let These People Go
From The Guardian looking forward to the forthcoming Synod debate on women bishops and the Archbishops’ desperate last hope amendment to maintain some integrity for the church:?Sally Barnes, from Women and the Church [WATCH], said: "If you institutionalise this kind of discrimination,...
Chaplain to the House of Commons
It has been reported that Mr Speaker Bercow has appointed the Rev Rose Hudson-Wilkin to be the new Chaplain to the House of Commons.According to The Telegraph, Mrs Hudson-Wilkin was picked by John Bercow ahead of the preferred candidate. The Rev Rose Hudson-Wilkin denied that she was a “victim” or a “token”, and insisted she could perform well in the...
A pox on them all
That was the message received from WATCH and their allies after yesterday?S Synod vote. Those in favour of the ordination of women succeeded in denying those who disagree with them an honoured place in their New Anglican church simply brushing them aside with false accusations of discrimination against women. Their spokesperson Ms Rees with her usual...
Senin, 22 Maret 2021
Spot the Difference?
YES YES NO?Woman and the Church? (WATCH) constantly claim discrimination but that deception is part of their feminist propaganda campaign.Contrary to what supporters would have us believe, opponents of the ordination of women are not misogynists. Many devout women and men are...
Slap for Rowan
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, was slapped in the face yesterday by the very people he has done most to help, today's clergy.True to form, women from 'Women and the Church' (WATCH) were yelling discrimination because the Archbishop dared to show Christian charity...
'Great' Minds Think Alike!
A report in Wales Online shows Katharine Jefferts Schori, the Presiding Bishop of the American Episcopal Church, and the Archbishop of Wales, Barry Morgan, to be in complete agreement on how religion should be brought into the third millennium to make it more relevant to society today.Unhappily for those trying to keep the faith, these church leaders...
Minggu, 21 Maret 2021
Flushed away
Http://www.Telegraph.Co.Uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7890673/Middle-Eastern-style-squat-lavatories-fitted-in-Rochdale-shopping-centre.HtmlYou can have almost anything you want in Great Britain today other than traditional orthodox Anglicanism. Since WATCH squatted in the...
Space to think...
Christ AbandonedI have noticed that some Blogs are taking a break during the summer so perhaps I should take the hint and leave some space to ponder for a while, in particular on what has happened to Anglicanism and where we go from here.When I came across the above image a...
Lies, damned lies and statistics
The Church Times today (23 July 2010) is carrying an article showing that “a poll by YouGov, which was not commissioned by any external organisation, found that 63 per cent of those questioned agreed that the Church of England should appoint women bishops, while ten per cent objected to the move. Nearly a quarter (24 per cent) said they had no opinion...
Sabtu, 20 Maret 2021
Game, set and match?
I watched the election of the new Pope as an interested Anglican but when Pope Benedict appeared on the balcony I had an overwhelming but inexplicable feeling that we were witnessing something truly holy. This is now clear. During Pope Benedict’s official visit to Great Britain...
Water of life - and of death!
In Britain our weather is rarely far from our lips. When it's not a 'Nice day!' it is too hot, too cold, too dry or, more often, too wet.We can't live without water while too much can cause misery and death. The tragedy that has struck Pakistan has brought this home even more forcefully but for some it is part of the on-going struggle to provide for...
Burning issues
Watching books burn is an unpleasant experience for those old enough to recall newsreel footage of Nazi excesses. With e-books and Library deposits the notion of denying or limiting knowledge to others is a thing of the past in the free world. Now the act is more a gesture of...
Jumat, 19 Maret 2021
All roads lead to Rome – except the Anglican one!
‘United we stand, divided we fall’ could never be more apt. Anyone involved in the Synodical process should remember that.Some Anglo-Catholics are already in the lifeboats hoping for a safe arrival in their promised land but while details are awaited, squabbling has broken out...
Freedom of religion for all - except 'traditional' Anglicans
Pope Benedict's official visit to Great Britain has had a good start in Scotland. Faith seemed to matter again, not just Catholicism but faith in general. Even the Government says it will 'do God', whatever that may mean in reality. Religious tolerance is in the air.President Obama spoke of religious freedom in relation to the proposed mosque near...
How is it for you?
Frankly, appalling. 'NICE' teachers calling for pregnancy clinics in schools must live in a world of their own. Do they know nothing of the shortage of midwives scandal endangering the lives of babies resulting from wanted pregnancies.Granted mothers are mothers and babies are babies deserving the best of attention but 'school midwives' simply sends...
Kamis, 18 Maret 2021
For your prayers...
With elections to Synod getting under-way, we need to hold candidates and electors in our prayers. This is the last chance to right the wrongs of the last Synod and undo the shameful treatment of loyal, orthodox Anglicans. So appalled were our Archbishops at the mistreatment...
What the halal is going on here?
But at least one step in the right direction. We must stand up for what we believe, Muslims do."As part of Campbell Canada's commitment to diversity and extraordinary, authentic nourishment for all, our selection of Halal-certified products are here to help you meet your Islamic...
We were warned!
Back in 2008, the then Bishop of Rochester, the Rt Rev Michael Nazir-Ali, created a bit of a stir when he claimed that "Islamic extremists have created "no-godanquot; zones across Britain where it is too dangerous for non-Muslims to enter". Some agreed while others differed...
Rabu, 17 Maret 2021
Death by stoning
Allah is merciful! Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani is not to be stoned to death, she is to be hanged instead! But stoning is stll allowed to carry on in the twenty-first century in the name of religion. The perpetrators of this barbarism show no mercy persecuting Christians as well...
Conference time
Now three cheers for our wonderful bankerswho caused the mess the last government left us ...
The Ministry of Chaos strikes again
I can't think of a more absurd excuse than the Transport Secretary's for increasing the speed limit to 80 MPH on motorways in England and Wales - 'because so many motorists already break the law and the police don't enforce it'. This from the 'party of law and order'! Police...
Selasa, 16 Maret 2021
The Three Wise Persons
After a brief interlude, back to the story of the Three Wise Persons travelling from the East to the land of His Darkness to find a re-birthsolution to the mess created in the Church in Wales now that religion has given way to gender politics and relitivism. First, apologies...
Sorry Your Grace
My next Blog entry was to have been a tale of the 'Three Wise Persons' travelling from the East to the land of His Darkness to sort out the troubles that Ab Rowan's sidekick has created there but that will have to wait, although in reality the stories are not unrelated. It's...
Senin, 15 Maret 2021
Gay "marriage" (3)
"One of you may now kiss the bride!"Marriage is a partnership but a partnership is not a marriage whatever politicians think or s...
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Photo: PA/EPAThis weekend the Archbishop of Canterbury hopes to meet President Robert Mugabe to discuss the ugly situation in Zambia. The difficulties Archbishop Rowan face were highlighted in aTelegraph article on 30 September.The former Anglican bishop Nolbert Kunonga...
Head in the clouds?
As the Telegraph rightly reported, the 'last-minute' conference speech change on "households paying off their credit card debt" was an embarrassment" but not the only embarrassment for the Prime Minister as he appeared for his keynotespeech at their Party conference...
Minggu, 14 Maret 2021
Moral bankruptcy
To ensure that we in Britain did not starve during WW2, thousands of Merchant Seamen braved the cruel seas of the North Atlantic while Hitler'sU-boats stalked their convoys. Merchant ships were not allowed to pick up any survivors spotted in the icy...
"It's not rocket science."
Regulator calls for better care for the elderlyFifteen years after Ministers admitted that hospitals were failing the elderly, the Care Quality Commission has found that half of all hospitals that it looked at failed in standards of care for the elderly. The BBC website...
Sabtu, 13 Maret 2021
More disappointment!
The Prime Minister continues to be "disappointeddanquot; after publication of the latest unemployment figures but not half as disappointed as those who see private sector employment declining when they were promised that the private sector would soak up redundancies in the public...
