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gadwall.bsky.social @gadwall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is about the desire to force young people to speak or sing Their Words. It's utterly certain that "Christian hymns" means a right wing choice of words to that they approve, not just any words that some Christians might use. So Christians must object to this every bit as much as humanists.

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gadwall.bsky.social @gadwall.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We might also notice the ridiculous headline on that BBC article. Absolutely we need a long period of significantly above average rainfall before we should relax in any way about the state of our water supplies. But it's absurd to suggest that that rainfall needs to be "relentless".

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

You can demand a return to "Christian values", or you can attack empathy as "suicidal". You cannot do both.

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gadwall.bsky.social @gadwall.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

List of ingredients? And also, any geological analogue? I will forever remember a lecture from the geochemist/ mineralogist David (E.A.) Vincent using the comparison of magma to porridge.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

absolutely spot on re Nigel Farage’s speech - from Tom Peck

He was angry, mainly, at all the attention that has been given to the highly unusual sources of his now-considerable wealth. But don't worry, hes definitely earned it.
"Going back to the Nineties, I was in the commodity markets and I had a very, very good, high-earning career," he explained. "I gave that up at a huge cost. Being a member of the European parliament for 20 years cost me a huge amount of money." Being a member of the European parliament for 20 years earned Nigel Farage about two or three million euros. He also, as luck would have it, will be 63 next year and so eligible for a nice little £80,000 a year pension for his dedicated service to Brussels.
Since then, he has, he explained,
"had the equivalent of a lottery win".
This lottery win is the f5m that appeared in his bank one morning, shortly betore he became an MP, and which he didn't think it would be necessary to declare to anyone.
The standards commissioner is investigating this matter so we don't wish to pre-empt his findings, but if he does conclude it was the
"equivalent of a lottery win", then the matter will surely be declared over. Until now, it hadn't been known that millions of other people had bought tickets from the Thai-based crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne and one lucky man, called Nigel Farage, had been randomly chosen as the winner.

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gadwall.bsky.social @gadwall.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Yes, (granted that my experience was years ago) Indian sleeper trains in my experience being better, where they have a wider gauge (more stable) and some of the beds in the carriage lengthwise not sideways.

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Worth a read. "Reform’s success should be read as a signal, not a sentence. It tells us that growth concentrated in London, credentials-dependent, invisible to millions of working people, is not working. People have now found a vehicle for saying so at scale and they should be heard."

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Reform’s rise is a productivity warning, not a culture war victory | LSE British Politics

Reform’s wins at the local elections have attributed to identity and culture wars. But Grace Lordan argues that it’s economics that explains the results.

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gadwall.bsky.social @gadwall.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

In sunny times I think our unconscious works away at keeping multiple commitments on track for us. But my unconscious is currently loaded up with trying to process world events!

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gadwall.bsky.social @gadwall.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

For a middle-aged person at least, it’s worth having an optician checking one’s reading prescription. My inclination to read a book for an extended period had dropped but suddenly recovered when I got new reading glasses. My unconscious had been telling me this book-reading thing was too hard work.

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gadwall.bsky.social @gadwall.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

You are absolutely correct - many Christians in Europe. However, also many in Western Europe not professing any Christian faith, despite a strong moral sense. I’m suggesting a perception, not the reality. And in particular, a misguided perception of what is wrong with European liberal elites.

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gadwall.bsky.social @gadwall.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

To explain the tone: I suggest both the perception of European irreligiousness, and a Christian work ethic. Part of that ethic’s baggage is to despise the part of one’s self that questions it - and the next step is to project that dislike onto others - viscerally. Similarly for religion and doubt.

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