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Craig Nelson

@craigne.bsky.social
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Interested in politics, religion, philosophy (especially German Idealism). Politics mainly centre Left, Social Democrat. Labour Party member. Posting from 🇬🇧 UK.

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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“Those who defend the right to life of the weakest among us must be equally visible in support of the quality of life of the weakest among us, including the elderly and children, the hungry, the homeless, and undocumented immigrants.” — the future Pope Leo XIV
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
MAGA: The woke Pope Leo XIV is contradicting 2,000 years of Catholic teaching on the death penalty. Pope Nicholas I in 866 AD:
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 09/10/2026
This is as treasonous as it gets
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
MAGA has spent the past 48 hours lecturing Pope Leo XIV on Catholic teaching. People who do this are foolish bigots. We stand with Pope Leo.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Americans stand with Pope Leo XIV.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The U.S. bishops called the Trump administration’s plan to livestream an execution barbaric, and they were right. Pete Hegseth has quoted the Bible publicly more than 120 times since taking office, and not one of those quotes came from Jesus or the New Testament. Why? He doesn’t believe in it.
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Pope: “The mind must not simply compile data — as an algorithm now does more quickly than we can — but recall lived experiences, which contain depths of meaning that only the human soul can recognize, and connect more deeply with the goodness of these experiences.”
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NEW: Dashing conservative hopes of a rollback, Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday defended Amoris Laetitia, the Pope Francis document that widened the path to Communion for divorced and remarried Catholics.
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Dashing Conservative Hopes, Pope Leo XIV Defends Pope Francis’s Amoris Laetitia
Opening a weeklong Vatican summit on the exhortation’s 10th anniversary, the pope put mercy and the freedom of the Holy Spirit at the center. Critics hoping for a rollback heard none of it.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“Intelligence must draw on memory. The mind must not simply compile data — as an algorithm now does more quickly than we can — but recall lived experiences, which contain depths of meaning that only the human soul can recognize.” — Pope Leo XIV
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Craig Nelson @craigne.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Truly shocking
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Pope Leo at Angelus: “I wish to recall a laborer who worked with great fruitfulness in the Lord’s vineyard: Saint Francis of Assisi, whom Jesus himself asked to repair his Church.”
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Michael Caine "I voted for Brexit... I'd rather be a poor master than a rich servant... You get lost, and then you find your way, and it will be alright." This Brexiteer lives in LA, has never been a poor anything, and there are zero consequences for his actions on him.
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Craig Nelson @craigne.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
UK membership without opt-outs is a non-starter, specifically the euro and Schemgen. It's as simple as that. There's no point starting the negotiations if that's not an option.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
ICE have confirmed that a 58th person has died in their custody in just 1 3/4 years. This does not include all the people they have murdered in the streets. It really is the Gestapo.
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DAPPER DON DHARSHI @dapperdondharshi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A marine biologist films this octopus changing colors while dreaming and it’s spectacular
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Instead of respecting the law, those in power invoke it when it serves their interests and disregard it when it restrains them, treating even justice itself as though it were a commodity to be bought and sold.” — Pope Leo XIV
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Tom Jamieson @tomjam.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Was ahead of the curve with this one
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 12/09/2026
More than a festival. More than a day out. Black On The Square puts Black culture and creativity centre stage in the heart of the capital.
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A Philadelphia nun named Sister Rose Kuhn drives to a Texas immigration court weekly to sit next to unaccompanied children as young as 4 who are facing deportation hearings alone without relatives or an attorney so that they won’t have to face the judge by themselves. Heartbreaking and horrific.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Full story.
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A Philadelphia Nun Sits With Unaccompanied Children at Texas Deportation Hearings
Sister Rose Kuhn drives to the Harlingen immigration court every week to pray beside children who face a judge alone, some as young as four.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
NEW: Every week, a Philadelphia nun drives to the immigration court in Harlingen, Texas, to sit beside unaccompanied children, some as young as four, who face a deportation judge with no lawyer and no parent. An undocumented migrant who is facing deportation called Sister Rose Kuhn his “angel.”
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
1936 public order act prohibits uniforms for political purposes bsky.app/profile/sund...
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Craig Nelson @craigne.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
His course in Applied Ethics must be riveting
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 05/09/2026
How could an associate professor in divinity at Cambridge be expected to know that lying is bad? thecritic.co.uk/mone...
Ah yes, James Orr. A lot of us had been hazy about what it is exactly that associate professors in a divinity department do all day. It doesn’t seem to involve a lot of work: Orr is often to be seen at Reform events in London, which take up the whole morning even for those of us with offices down the road. Now we know he was also sipping cocktails while discussing ways in which wealthy foreigners might be able to get round the laws that ban them donating to the party.

The associate professor of divinity was filmed explaining to an undercover reporter that so long as everyone kept their mouths shut, there was no way that the authorities would ever find out. Orr spent four years as a postdoctoral fellow in theology, ethics and public life at Oxford, and it would be fascinating to know at what point he developed this theory of What the Electoral Commission Don’t Know Won’t Hurt Them. Perhaps he was off sick the day they opened the gospel of Luke: “What you have said in the dark will be h
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The Electoral Commission appears to be straightforwardly wrong about its role and responsibilities in law as the regulator when it says publicly "Information about any potential attempt to evade the controls on donations is for the police to consider". It is the core job of the Electoral Commission
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Craig Nelson @craigne.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Disgusting
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
That Channel 4 video is very obviously fake news. For a start, it claims to show Nigel Farage actually in Clacton.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Farage was - once again - lying when he said counter terrorism police had delayed his speech because of threats. West Midlands police confirm they gave no such advice.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I can't remember a clearer smoking gun than that Channel 4 News footage. Nigel Farage and his senior aides all filmed discussing apparent plans to break the law by funnelling foreign money into British politics, plans which at least partly went ahead. A criminal investigation surely must follow
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Nigel Farage filmed celebrating illegal foreign donations Undercover footage reveals plot to break the law by funnelling offshore funds through a UK donor. Donations funded a series of widely reported polls boosting Reform ahead of the local elections channel4news.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
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Craig Nelson @craigne.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It's clear something has gone very wrong in this trial. It is testing the system to its limits.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Just a reminder, Professor James Orr, Reform UK head of policy, teaches 'ethics' to undergraduates at Cambridge University youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI
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Craig Nelson @craigne.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I am very much in favour of Britain defending the Falkland Islands against any threat, under international law and the UN Charter. It is very important that Britain develop good defence of the Islands. However, if a deal could be done to settle their future that would be better.
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 04/09/2026
Nigel Farage is very lucky that he didn't know what was being discussed at the lunch where he was discussing it
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Reform hates foreigners unless they’re wealthy donors & then they’ll do whatever they want
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Matthew Stadlen @matthewstadlen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Has Nigel Farage stepped down as an MP to trigger another by-election to clear his name yet?
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
2:05 pm 2:21 pm @atrupar.com
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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations Undercover footage reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. Lolz
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 03/09/2026
One mother believes that had she not received treatment within the U.K.’s trailblazing maternal mental healthcare system after being diagnosed with “tendencies of postpartum psychosis,” both she and her daughter might not be alive today.
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Lindsay Clancy trial: How the U.K. treats postpartum psychosis in Mother and Baby Units
Britain’s trailblazing maternal mental healthcare program gains attention as the serious psychological condition comes under greater scrutiny.
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Craig Nelson @craigne.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Ultimately this will have saved thousands of lives and saved many young people (thousands) from respiratory illness.
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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Sadiq achieved this by leading not following. A follower would never have done what he did. It is a lesson that will go largely unlearned. But by being politically brave, Sadiq has literally saved countless London lives.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Reform UK, which promises to "defend free speech" at all costs, has again banned Byline Times from its conference
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Craig Nelson @craigne.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
An interesting analysis. And by interesting I mean compelling.
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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Enjoyed Burnham’s speech about a ‘series of wrong turns’ in this country. Centralisation Privatisation De-industrialision Austerity Brexit All true
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Craig Nelson @craigne.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Very much liking his analysis
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Craig Nelson @craigne.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Not a true quote, I think, but something he should have said.
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Craig Nelson @craigne.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I'm not so certain. If he obtained an international post he'd have to have a by-election and with no say over when that might be. This way the by-election is at a time relatively favourable to Labour.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 26/08/2026
Dolly Parton's legacy extends beyond her extraordinary music. She touched countless lives through her generosity, including through her Imagination Library in London, bringing the joy of reading to children across the capital. My thoughts are with her loved ones and fans around the world.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton did all the good she could, for all the people she could, for as long as ever she could. From her legendary songwriting to the Imagination Library—which sent 1 million books a month to children across the country—she was the best of America. Dolly, we'll miss your great heart.
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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
To unite left and right, men and women, old and young, black and white, gay and straight. Dolly Parton, a legend, an icon, a force for good. The good ones seem to be leaving us.
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