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[Gavin Drake @GavinDrake]

@Gurwinderkailay Hello, I work with the Methodist Recorder newspaper. Can we use a still from your footage in our coverage please, with credit to you?

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Archbishop of York: “Don’t be a shouty campaigner on safeguarding – we don’t listen to the shouty people”

The Archbishop of York can choose to ignore me and others; but if the Church had listened. perhaps Justin Welby wouldn’t be standing down.

https://t.co/rLkyrSanwf

[Steve Reeves @SteveReevesUK]

‘“People are still being harmed in the Church of England,” she says…She comes across as warm but firm – the kind of woman you would want in your corner.’

Ain’t that the truth! ⁦

@Jas_Sanghera_⁩ is a force of nature. I’m so very proud to know her. https://t.co/i4ArD5u07k

[Gavin Drake @GavinDrake]

Charity Commission responds to open letter on Church of England safeguarding fiasco

As the Charity Commission refuses to properly hold the Archbishops' Council to account, now is the time for a full public statutory inquiry.

https://t.co/A3YXRr2Dny

[Gavin Drake @GavinDrake]

Jasvinder Sanghera, sacked by the Archbishops' Council as its Independent Safeguarding Board's survivor advocate for advocating too well, is continuing to work with the ISB-11 - those victims and survivors the ISB were working with before it was scrapped.

https://t.co/aKogpxmjjw

[Tom Bacon @TomABacon]

And yet again, Elon Musk is trending in the UK. It's worth beginning by taking a step back and asking: what's really going on? Why does he launch so many attacks on the Starmer government? And... does he have a point? 🧵

[Gavin Drake @GavinDrake]

@davidvance I assume that you do not understand that "the flu" is not just a bad cold.

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[Gavin Drake @GavinDrake]

@ChildCofe @NormanLeedsPhD @SewellMartin @cathynewman @JanetEastham @AndrewGraystone @SteveReevesUK @BishopNewcastle I am honoured by the suggestion. The real heroes are those who persevere, and those forced to give up the fight, after personally suffering the abuse and re-traumatisation of the Archbishops' Council.

[Gavin Drake @GavinDrake]

Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell’s “fine words” with no action

Stephen Cottrell, channelling the spirit of Eliza “Do Little” – Don't just talk about justice... Show us.

https://t.co/zJ5snl1dqw

[Gavin Drake @GavinDrake]

Archbishop Stephen Cottrell also talked of the need not just to talk about justice and love but to "walk the talk".

I've told @CottrellStephen he speaks fine words while taking no action for a few years now.

Will he radically change his approach, or is this more empty words.

[Gavin Drake @GavinDrake]

Ladies, "mansplaining" is when men tell you things you already know. ;-)

[Gavin Drake @GavinDrake]

Because of the way victims and survivors of church-based abuse treated, I can no longer call it #MyChurchOfEngland.

I long for the day when the Archbishops' Council deals with safeguarding properly, so that news coverage can focus on the Good News of the Gospel of Christ.

[Gavin Drake @GavinDrake]

For now, I wish everyone a very happy, peaceful and joy-filled Christmas.

And I sign off for now with one of my favourite (but theologically challenging) carols - critiqued by many for mansplaining in action.

https://t.co/lO9lrt55UZ