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Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 6h

Some of the most frustrating people on God’s earth are those with passionate beliefs but no grasp of how to go about achieving their goals tactically 😬

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Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 7h

Telegraph. The CofE Today’s Daily Media Digest.

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Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 9h

Not sure ‘the people who won’t let low pay and high stress stop them being vicars’ is quite the recruitment publicity we needed. ‘Low’ and ‘high’ compared with what?

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Emily Richardson @emjric.bsky.social · 21h

BEST. NAME. EVER.

The organ voluntary by Oliphant Chuckerbutty

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Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 20h

I remember the Green Party when it was a small well meaning bunch of environmentalists. Now it’s a small unhinged bunch of extremists.

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Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So presumably the conspirators in Acts 23 starved to death?

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Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

As I read my way through the great Russian classics it’s thought provoking to discover how many of these famous authors were actually … Ukrainian 🤔

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Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Fellow bibliophiles, buy as many actual books as you can. Then when a demented society gives them a wokeover to rid them of ‘problematic’ language and ideas you’ll still have the real ones.

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Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Well today I discovered that McVities plain digestives (the acknowledged food of gods) have been renamed McVities Gigglings. Their chocolate digestives are now Togethers and their chocolate hobnobs are Buzzings. Is it me or has someone in their advertising department sprained a synapse?

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Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

See that black bundle with just one eye exposed? There’s a woman in there. What’s her name? What’s her story? What does she look like? What’s her perspective? This photograph is viscerally disturbing.

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Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

In a nod to this classic, a handy guide is available in this diocese called ‘How it Works THE ARCHDEACON 😆

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Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Good morning synodical skylarks. Everybody standing for General Synod is ‘inclusive’. The question is what they include and what they don’t. Make sure you’re clear on that point before casting your vote.

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Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Watch out. An excess of tomatoes can do terrible things to your bladder 🫤

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Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

To those who believe there is a place in society for assisted dying, the obvious next step is to bend your campaigning efforts towards ensuring excellent medical and palliative care for everyone who needs them. Then and only then should this bill be brought forward again.

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Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Good morning, churchy skylarks. In the forthcoming General Synod elections vote for the Save the Parish candidates because if you don’t there may soon be nothing left for anyone with other sets of priorities to be a part of or feel excluded from.

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Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

After careful consideration my new Russian read is Dr Zhivago. Pevear and Volokhonsky translation again. Originally banned in Soviet Russia for political incorrectness, it was first published in Italy in 1957. It won Pasternak a Nobel prize for literature.

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Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The swallows are all wired and flighty. Any day now they will be gone. Winter well, little swallows. See you in the Spring.

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Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

A careless first glance registered that as ‘scandal-loving vicar’. Best wishes for next steps, Andrew 🤗

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Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The thing is, what to read next …

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Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

My favourite chapter in The Brothers Karamazov has got to be ‘Gold Mines’, where Mitya and Madam Khokhlakov end up talking at complete cross purposes about how he can raise the money he desperately needs. Perfectly timed and executed.

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Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The Brothers Karamazov contains many blackly comic scenes. Check out the bit where the body of the much admired monk, instead of emitting the expected odours of sanctity, starts to stink, to the consternation of his devoted followers.

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Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Well I have just finished reading The Brothers Karamazov, another crazy Russian ride. Everyone in it is quite mad. Pevear and Volokhonsky translation.

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Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Let me tell you about our plane flight yesterday to a Scottish island; there were 18 people on the manifest but 19 people on board. Cue much head scratching that was not resolved but in the end it was decided to take off anyway.

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Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Good morning skylarks. Would it save time if we simply rename every geological feature some combination of either ‘Trump’ or ‘America’?

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Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Yes, of course but that’s not the scenario I’ve described above.

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Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Yes to all that. I should have been more specific. What I had in mind is a situation where Y is the best candidate, X is the second best candidate but X is appointed because there’s a quota to fill or for the optics. That’s demeaning to both candidates and bad for the employer.

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Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

It seems to me that the work of levelling the playing field is better done differently and much earlier. What’s missing can’t usually be factored back in at the point of offering a job or making an appointment.

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Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

They will, yes. And there are many guises in which privilege, favouritism and bias can operate. But the affirmative action policies that many institutions are operating today don’t actually address those factors and can indeed function alongside them or even enable them.

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Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The problem with DEI is that it leaves all women’s appointments and achievements open to suspicion. People can always say ‘but if you hadn’t been a woman …’ That’s not empowering, it’s undermining. You will always doubt yourself.

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Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Having appointed a number of people to a number of posts in my time I’ll say this. It is not a kindness to appoint someone to a post for which they are under qualified. Do not do it, no, do not do it.

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Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Appointing a woman over the head of a better qualified man is not feminism, y’all. We call it ‘progressive misogyny’.

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Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Morning skylarks. Is it ever right to appoint the female person instead of the best person? As a feminist I say it is never right.

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Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

They just did something about it. They sent you a message warning you not to start a runaway wildfire.

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Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Good morning to everyone who thought they were receiving a four minute warning yesterday

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Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Congratulations to @countbinface.bsky.social on achieving just under 27% of the vote in the Clacton by-election. Many so called ‘mainstream’ political parties have not performed nearly so well in by-elections in past years.

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Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Hasn’t Hirsch, by claiming that fellow black academics covered up for Arday, dealt them a far more deadly wound than he did?

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

For thousands of years, a solar eclipse has been a prophetic harbinger of a spectacular, epoch-making event. Just saying. #VoteBinface #Clacton

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Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

According to this article Arday’s fellow black academics all had concerns about him but ‘they did not voice them publicly because … we would all be damaged in the process.’ I hadn’t thought I could feel any more depressed about this affair but suddenly I do.

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Patrick Smith @psmithjournalist.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The eclipse reminds me of my favourite Viz letter

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Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I’d be lying if I said I didn’t know the feeling 😆

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Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Do you want to know what tragic looks like? This is what tragic looks like 😢

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Jane Charman @janeeecharman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Presumably they’ll carve out some kind of class exemption that includes these two. Another factor is that releasing them now might put them in danger of public reprisals. Safer if they’re let out quietly when their normal sentences expire.

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