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Peter Sellick

@pjsllk.bsky.social
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Husband. Father. Step dad. UK Mental Health Chaplain. Fan of Expressionist Art.

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Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Plough Subscribers can access this week’s free ebook, *My God and My All: The Life of Saint Francis of Assisi* by Elizabeth Goudge, in the Downloads section of their account.
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My God and My All | Plough Books
The captivating story of the world’s favorite saint is now retold for a modern audience by one of the great novelists of our time.
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Peter Sellick @pjsllk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Heathrow third runway plan is utterly ludicrous. Harm for climate, environment and more comfort for the wealthy. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Heathrow’s third runway is a bottomless money pit. Stop it now | Simon Jenkins
It won’t promote growth, will take decades and will swallow up billions of taxpayers’ money, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
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Peter Sellick @pjsllk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
USA is being renamed North Urea by Donald J Trump
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Peter Sellick @pjsllk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I wonder if Artificial Intelligence wrote Trump's post for him.
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Peter Sellick @pjsllk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Birmingham... Best viewed in the dark!
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Peter Sellick @pjsllk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
SYLVIA the musical on tour, powerful in its third incarnation, telling of campaign for power from those who are excluded and looked down on by the mighty... Story that still is necessary today. Great music and dancing too. Go and be moved...
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Robert Jenrick’s handling of donations to his failed 2024 Tory leadership campaign has come under fresh scrutiny, after the UK donor at the centre of the row claimed that the politician and his senior campaign staff knew about the involvement of an overseas donor. www.ft.com/content/38a5...
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Reform UK’s Robert Jenrick faces fresh accusation from campaign donor
British businessman Phillip Ullmann says the politician was aware of his relationship with potentially illicit US donor
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If I never hear from Sharon Graham, ever again, it will be several months too soon. She is typical of the intellectual dishonesty plaguing this country, which demands radical change, but objects to anything actually changing.
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 21/09/2026
Miguel Masaisai, qui traversait l’Afrique à vélo pour demander la fin de la guerre en RDC, est mort percuté par un camion
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Miguel Masaisai, qui traversait l’Afrique à vélo pour demander la fin de la guerre en RDC, est mort percuté par un camion
Le jeune homme, originaire de Goma, dans l’Est de la République démocratique du Congo, s’était fixé pour mission de pédaler jusqu’à Rabat, au Maroc, pour demander la fin de la guerre dans son pays. Son périple a pris fin sur une route du Congo-Brazzaville.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is the part many Americans -- including the Bezosites at the Washington Post -- don't understand. Canadians don't see this just as a Trump thing. It's that America elected him twice, and the second time with an even bigger mandate. The problem we're addressing is America, not Trump.
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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
For those in the Church of England: To find out who's standing in this year's #Synod elections who is committed to equality in our Church (not just limited to equal marriage) do check out the Inclusive Synod candidates here and share with friends and colleagues togethercofe.org.uk/elections/
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INCLUSIVE SYNOD ELECTION CAMPAIGN – Together for the Church of England
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Gene Haunt 👻🇨🇦🇵🇸 @avin-oops.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Middle England today
Kombucha girl meme. Positive face: concentration camps. Negative face: concentration camps near my village
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Peter Sellick @pjsllk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Tales of torture, blackmail and theft by Saudi leadership .. still part of daily life in Saudi Arabia. Shocking report in FT.. while US leadership embraces Saudi evils.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10/09/2026
Don’t sashay away! The BBC’s decision to cancel Ru Paul’s Drag Race UK is sickening in all the wrong ways
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Don’t sashay away! The BBC’s decision to cancel Ru Paul’s Drag Race UK is sickening in all the wrong ways
The hyper-flamboyant and hilariously filthy show is an inclusive, celebratory platform for queer culture. The broadcaster’s choice to nix it is giving stupidity
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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is an overtly political statement unbecoming for a chief rabbi that conflates Jews and Israel and does not represent the views of me or people like me I could say more, but it’s almost Rosh Hashanah and I don’t want to start the new year badly - and, frankly, its awfulness speaks for itself
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This was the point I emphasised about Palantir when I wrote about tech soverignty - their model is to make bits of the state dependent on them and them jack up the price. samf.substack.com/p/sovereignt...
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Sovereignty for sale
Tech monopolies and the future of the nation state
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Peter Sellick @pjsllk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is how Tech companies rake it in... Set up a system that is dependent on their own software. Money for old rope.. Money for Peter Thiel.
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Peter Sellick @pjsllk.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I found it very odd. No idea what it was supposed to be about. Would not read it again!
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Who would ever have thought that the BBC’s political editor would put out a single source claim that was both false and also great propaganda for Reform…
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“Restoring Van Gogh's Ear & Mending His Broken Heart” 🎨 #asmr #satisfying #vangogh #papercraft #stopmotion IG: @paper_pepper (페이퍼 후추)
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Mark @quigonsmith.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
He really is the world’s most credulous man.
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It took a lot: the threat of an IPSO investigation, insults and rank hypocrisy from Michael Gove, refusal to publish a right to reply & a last minute excision without consultation, but at last I got The Spectator to publish a counter to its propaganda war against Project Spire.
Letter published in The Spectator correcting some of its misinformation about Project Spire’s historical basis.
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Peter Sellick @pjsllk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
James Orr seems keen on two tier Justice: one law for the wealthy, one law for the common people
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Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 03/09/2026
Ah, that would be the devout Christian soul I was reading about this morning, yes? www.ft.com/content/c2d0...
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James Orr and the gospel of the new British right
Reform’s policy head is a Cambridge theologian with an enviable contact book and a belief in ‘faith, family and flag’
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Peter Sellick @pjsllk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Christian Theologian and Cambridge University Academic James Orr up to his neck in conspiracies to break electoral law and deceive media, politicians and public.
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Peter Sellick @pjsllk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Oh dear. Sounds dreadful. You aren't trying to live up to your ident image, are you?
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Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This. Is. Not. Journalism. - It's letting Farage shine. I genuinely do not understand why the BBC does not seem to be able to competently challenge Reform and Farage.
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Reform up against 'complainants' society', Nigel Farage tells BBC
The Reform UK leader said a "whole ecosystem" didn't want "new kids on the block succeeding".
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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Amazing. It seems that plagiarism is only a problem for The Times when black people do it
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Alistair King @alistairking.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Struggling to work out why Jenrick would single out these three Commonwealth countries rather than, say, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, whose citizens have exactly the same rights. It’s a head-scratcher.
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Peter Sellick @pjsllk.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Has Trump died too?
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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Professional wordsmiths at the BBC are mixing up their modal auxiliary verbs, accidentally positioning Reform as a government in waiting. The use of 'will' signals the future tense carrying implied certainty, rather than the hypothetical scenario suggested by 'would.' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Reform says it will prioritise British-born young workers for social housing
Labour called the plan "unserious and unworkable" and accused Reform of pushing "gimmicks and division".
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Rev Peter W Nimmo @peternimmo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Orr will be the next big Cambridge scandal. The Church of England and other bodies ought to warn their students in the Cambridge Divinity Faculty against contact with Orr
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Peter Sellick @pjsllk.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Cambridge Christian Professor, and Clergy Spouse, James Orr has been briefing JD Vance to get US to put an end to the Online Safety Act, which was being set up to protect vulnerable children from social media. So FT reports..
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I think the ultimate test of this is actually Boris Johnson. Boris *was fired from his first job* for making up stories, only to go on to be hired into a prestigious role at the Telegraph and spend years lying about the EU at Brussels. And I mean literally lying here; not bad punditry.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.
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Electoral Reform Society @electoralreform.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Electoral reform needs a process that can bring people together. A time-limited National Commission could give voters and experts the space to examine First Past the Post and set out the alternatives. We need to reach 100,000 names - Sign today: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
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Petition: Set up a National Commission on Electoral Reform to review the electoral system
I ask the Government to set up a National Commission on Electoral Reform, as advocated by the All Party Parliamentary Group for Fair Elections. It should be an independent, time limited, expert led…
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Peter Sellick @pjsllk.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Israeli Government and military using their learning from annihilating much of Gaza, to do the same to southern Lebanon. We need stronger sanctions against Israel.
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Peter Sellick @pjsllk.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Money gets Billionaire out of Corruption charges in US Court: his lawyer is Donald Trump's personal lawyer and Dept of Justice drops case against him.
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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
If only the quiet collapse of our universities got as much attention as Jason Arday has. Here’s @gsoh31.bsky.social’s recent piece for Arguably on the “slow, grim dribbling away of one of Britain’s great triumphs and economic advantages”. www.arguably.uk/p/the-quiet-...
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The quiet collapse of British universities
One of our great triumphs and economic advantages is fading away
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Peter Sellick @pjsllk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Not sure this is infographic very helpful.. excludes taxes by businesses, VAT and other taxes.. Some people pay more in VAT than they do in income tax. Also depends on formal geographic boundaries :eg BRADFORD pays more income tax than NOTTINGHAM.. ? That is a very bizarre statistic
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Peter Sellick @pjsllk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Birmingham Quakers were also involved in gun and chain trading for the slave colonies.
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churchtimes.bsky.social @churchtimes.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The latest issue of the Church Times is out today 🗞️ In the news: The campaigning group Save the Parish has launched its manifesto for the elections to the next General Synod 📜
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Peter Sellick @pjsllk.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Thanks @channel5tv.bsky.social . After highlights of Commonwealth Games, 5 catchup at 10 pm offers us viewing of PEPPA PIG or HOME & AWAY.. What sort of people are also watching the games?
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Peter Sellick @pjsllk.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I don't understand why train drivers get to make this argument.. and everyone agrees.. and ignores bus drivers, coach drivers, taxi drivers, postal workers, delivery drivers.. etc etc. Where is @dawnbutlerbrent.bsky.social campaign for them?
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Peter Sellick @pjsllk.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
How about bus drivers? What are they supposed to do?.. at least most train sets have a toilet on board..
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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Good grief, this hits home.
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omgisme @omgisme.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Symbiotic: a close, long-term biological or social relationship between two different species or entities.😍
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WobblyGoose/Dr Rachel @wobblygoose.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
A great conversation about my 'Seeking the Disabled Christ ' Exhibition Leicester Cathedral this evening. Thank you for all the fabulous questions and comments.
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Exhibition: Seeking the Disabled Christ
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Peter Sellick @pjsllk.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Don't trust Ryanair? Some nervous passengers behind us on Saturday flying back from Italy when they discovered how flimsy the interior cabin window was.. Pilot had to come out and reassure them that a floppy inner window was normal! www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Ryanair says its planes are safe despite passenger being nearly sucked out of window
Airline says crew did a “great job” after incident and that it has been in touch with family of man saved from death
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Gabby: What was your highlight of the half time show? Wayne Rooney: When it finished. I thought it was crap. 10/10 punditry. No notes.
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