James Clark

Cellist and accountant, runner and Christian

[James Clark @James38Clark]

Worth resharing - glad they are using their platform

[Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦 @DeborahMeaden]

Thank you for speaking to our future...@nationaltrust

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@_HannahRitchie Generation is not the same as use. Doesn’t Norway export lots of energy?

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@IndiGenBharat @stats_feed That’ll be Ben Kingsley and he was amazing as Ghandi. However, Tom Hanks every day of the week.

[Nick Reeves #RejoinEU #NAFO #FBPE @nickreeves9876]

Starmer has written in the Express that he will not restore Freedom of Movement.

Please retweet if you want our Freedom of Movement restored.

We were robbed of our right to live, work, study and love in 30 countries by the worst abuses of democracy in modern British history.

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

If everyone who has been grateful for the NHS over the past 75 years followed and retweeted we’d reach a million by midnight.

Please take just two seconds to show you care.

[Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis @chiefrabbi]

How times have changed…

On 3 September 1189, Richard I was crowned King in Westminster Abbey. Jews were barred from attending, but in a spirit of heartfelt goodwill, some Jewish leaders arrived bearing gifts for the new king. They were informed that Jews were not welcome, whereupon Richard’s courtiers stripped and flogged them, and then flung them out of court.

A rumour spread that the King had given an order for all Jews to be attacked. While some Jews escaped, arsonists set fire to many Jewish homes, some Jews were forcibly converted, while others were given sanctuary in the Tower of London. Some thirty innocent Jews were senselessly murdered on the day of the Coronation, including Rabbi Jacob of Orléans, the most senior Rabbi in England at that time.

These tragic events stand in sharp contrast to our experience as Jews in 21st Century Britain.

His Majesty King Charles III has made it clear that he wants representatives of the Jewish community and other minority faith communities to be present for the coronation service. In addition, he has established an unprecedented opportunity, following the service itself, for faith leaders to be incorporated into the formal proceedings. I will be privileged, together with four other senior faith leaders, to greet the King with words of tribute and blessing. At every stage, the Palace has been sensitive to the requirements of halacha (Jewish Law) when considering how best to include us. With this in mind, in accordance with the laws of Shabbat, I will not be using a microphone.

This is in addition to The King and Queen’s gracious invitation to host Valerie and me at St James’ Palace over Shabbat, when we will cherish the extraordinary opportunity to light Shabbat candles, make kiddush, eat our specially catered Shabbat meals, sing zemirot and chant Havdalah within regal surroundings.

We are blessed to have a Monarch who holds a deep, personal conviction that there is great strength in the diversity of our country and who cherishes his warm relationship with British Jews.
In the Book of Ecclesiastes, we are taught that: ‘there is a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to cry and a time to dance with joy’. Nearly a thousand years ago, the Coronation of a Monarch was a time to weep for the Jewish community, but today, thank God, it is a time for great celebration. As we enter this Carolean era, may our country be blessed to know many more moments of such celebration, and may God save the King!

[James Clark @James38Clark]

@gembell1977 @QPark_UK Call me next time!

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Great news!!!

BBC News - BBC suspends proposed closure of the BBC Singers
https://t.co/5Vesf0lEYF

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@mrdanwalker All the best for your recovery. I also am only alive now thanks to a bike helmet.

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@mikeirons12 For Mahler 5 I recommend the live Solti recording - it has the applause at the end which I can't resist joining in with

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@OurCofELike About 2 weeks, but be careful going down stairs for a little while.

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@CStoreNews_ 12

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@krishk @SanctuaryFd @BabyBasicsUK You're an inspiration Krish, many congratulations

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@SoVeryBritish Swindon?

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@NicolaSturgeon @lewis_goodall @UKSupremeCourt We already have democracy - we all vote for our MPs - but for reasons beyond most of us some 5 million out of 70 odd million get to shout louder all the time.

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@Sirius4Loki @ttchiwandire @KyivIndependent Quite right!

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@cammyservantofc So sorry for your loss Cammy. May God be with you and all your family.

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@SteveChalke @GMB If only!