James Ray

Blond bloke. I mostly use Twitter to make notes & see different points of view. I like kindness, bravery, positive challenge & change. 📙#RESPONSIBILITY for men

[The Ways of A Gentleman @Gentleman_Ways]

"A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society."

-Billy Graham

[James Ray @JamesACRay]

@iamtomskinner Praying for you & your family these days: for peace & a smooth arrival of a beautiful baby 🙏🏼🙌🏼💪🏼❤️

[GB News @GBNEWS]

'We need healthy male role models.'

Men's campaigner and author James Ray discusses the importance of father figures on Father's Day, and says those without one should use today as an opportunity to find a role model in a friend, family member, or mentor.

[James Ray @JamesACRay]

@SeddighEllie @GBNEWS Sorry to read this Ellie. 😢

[GB News @GBNEWS]

'A great day to remember the male role model in our lives': Campaigner urges Britain to embrace Father's Day

https://t.co/iUPGT4JNsl

[James Ray @JamesACRay]

@bintPRJ @GBNEWS Thanks Alison

[James Ray @JamesACRay]

@GBNEWS Thanks for having me on 💪🏼 HAPPY FATHER’s DAY men! 💪🏼🇬🇧

[GB News @GBNEWS]

'Today is a day to be proactive.'

Men's campaigner and author James Ray discusses the importance of father figures on Father's Day, and says those without one should use today as an opportunity to find that role model in a friend, family member, or mentor.

[Rugby on TNT Sports @rugbyontnt]

“Pressure is a privilege, and if you take it the right way, you can use it to your advantage.”

Player of the Match Henry Pollock following his match winning performance for @SaintsRugby 🌟

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[GB News @GBNEWS]

GB News brings you today's Daily Reflection.

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GB News brings you today's Daily Reflection

[Dr. Arthur Brooks @arthurbrooks]

Men tend to get lonelier as they age.

One reason is that many of their friendships are built around shared interests rather than shared inner lives.

There's nothing wrong with golf, fantasy football, or talking about work. But if every conversation stays there, it's possible to spend years surrounded by people and still have nobody you can tell the truth to.

I've met countless successful men who can name dozens of colleagues and acquaintances but struggle to identify a single person they could call in a moment of real pain.

By middle age, many have become fluent in banter and almost illiterate in confession. The friendships that endure are often built through small acts of courage: asking the deeper question, giving the honest answer, and risking being known.

Loneliness rarely arrives all at once. It accumulates quietly, one surface-level conversation at a time.

[James Ray @JamesACRay]

@MattSmethurst @StevenBartlett Beautiful

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

Man, this is beautiful. A life adorning the gospel.

Listen to what @StevenBartlett—host of one of the world’s most popular podcasts—says to Christian apologist John Lennox.

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GB News brings you today's daily reflection.

[Steven Bartlett @StevenBartlett]

“We now find ourselves in a world where we understand how almost everything works, but we know the meaning of nothing.”

That's not a religious argument. That's a scientific one.

And this isn’t coming from someone who abandoned logic to find faith…

Today’s guest is John Lennox, a mathematician who has spent 70 years interrogating faith with logic, science, philosophy, and evidence and somehow came out the other side more convinced.,

I sat down with John as I wanted a conversation not only around religion, but how AI is making every one of us ask religious-sized questions.

We discussed things like:

- Why artificial intelligence is still artificial
- The difference between simulating intelligence and possessing consciousness
- Human dignity in the age of AI and why it matters more, not less
- Loneliness and why it makes us vulnerable to fake connection
- The peace that most of us are actually searching for

I didn’t feel like I was being pushed towards an answer.

Instead I was being invited to think more honestly about the questions.

You do not have to share his faith to learn from the way he thinks.

For anyone asking what makes us human in a world of machines, this is a conversation I would really recommend.

[James Ray @JamesACRay]

Brilliant. 🦸🦸🏽‍♀️🦸‍♂️

[quibble @quibbleUK]

Hello, we are Jonathan and Abigail - unashamed pedants who want to bring this affliction to bear on all things public policy and practice.
We believe that details matter, especially in public administration. This is why today we are founding quibble: a campaign to fix the small stuff.
Think, for example, about the cookie banner that we click on every webpage. Each instance is not a big deal, so we just put up with it. But its cumulative impact adds up - on average we press it 5 times per day. The European Commission estimates that it costs EU citizens 343 million hours per year.
And who is there to represent the impacts of seemingly minor issues like this in a systematic way? We want quibble to be the answer. In the case of the cookie banner, lots of advocacy has rightly focused on privacy, but has this meant that user experience has taken a backseat? We believe there are ways to improve user experience without compromising on privacy. We will share more about this soon.
Consider another example. Did you know that in some government-run car parks you can be fined for a minor keying error, such as accidentally typing a zero instead of an “o”? Again, we will come to the detail of this quibble in the coming weeks, but for now just consider again the question: who? Who is there currently to systematically represent the interests of the parker who is given an unfair ticket?
An inherent feature of consumer interests is that those who have them rarely have enough other things in common to make collective organisation and representation feasible. This is the gap that quibble seeks to fill. Now of course excellent consumer interest groups exist. But understandably quibbles might not be at the top of their lists. Our hope is that quibble will be complementary; picking up the bottom-of-the-list issues faced by various groups - the stuff they are almost too embarrassed to raise because they are too small.
We are not embarrassed about detail. If you’ve ever had a splinter, you know small things can have a big impact. This is what quibble is committed to tackling, and our wider hope is that by doing so we will also incentivise policy makers to be even more careful about detail.
Check out our website here, including our first four campaigns: https://t.co/gZiqqHbhIL

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

A reminder that, under our soil, we have 1.5 billion barrels of oil, 150 billion cubic meters of natural gas and 300 years' supply of coal.

https://t.co/8dXQcd78or

[Dr. Arthur Brooks @arthurbrooks]

Here’s a simple friendship checkup:

1. Who knows you well enough to notice when something feels off... and actually ask if you’re okay?
2. Who, besides your spouse, can you talk to about something personal or vulnerable?

And here’s the harder question: when was the last time you actually had that kind of conversation?

[C. S. Lewis @CSLewisDaily]

“The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self — all your wishes and precautions — to Christ.” - C.S. Lewis