Peter D. Williams

👨🏼‍💻💼 Project Consultant | 🐝🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Local Advocate – @VespaAudax | 🌳🇬🇧 #NatConUK | 🤔🔍 Sceptic, ~Skeptic | ☧🇻🇦 #TradCath

[Robby Soave @robbysoave]

I have never once in my life encountered someone expressing this sentiment. Either I live in quite a bubble, or Ezra Klein does.

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

Men are more likely to be stopped and searched than women. Is this structural sexism? Or might be that the higher rate correlates with higher crime rates and more frequent matching suspect descriptions?

[Catholic Arena @CatholicArena]

The horror continues.

[Sam Ashworth-Hayes @SAshworthHayes]

Sharing footage is divisive. Asking why it's happening is divisive. Asking what we can do to stop it is divisive.

You wouldn't want to be divisive, would you?

[Katy Faust @Katy_Faust]

I’ve spoken to and/or cataloged the stories of more than 100 children with same-sex parents. These two children will likely:

- Hunger for paternal love, gravitate toward coaches, and overstay their welcome at the homes of friends who have dads. Some will be so desperate for male connection that they become easy targets for predators.
- Feel guilty for wanting a dad in a community that endlessly repeats that they are “so lucky to have two mothers.”
- Struggle with questions of identity, wondering whether every man they pass on the street could be their father.
- Wrestle with questions of self-worth: Why didn't my father want me? Why did he sell me?

And when these children are sad, angry, or struggling, our culture and courts will tell them that the loss of their father was the price of admission for a new adult "civil right."

That’s why we must #OverturnObergefell and @MakeKidsGreater.

[Colm Flynn @colmflynnire]

My wife @PaolaArriazaA's new documentary, Sagrada Familia: The Masterpiece Uniting Heaven and Earth, takes viewers to Barcelona for Pope Leo XIV’s historic visit, marking 100 years since Antoni Gaudí’s death and the inauguration of the basilica’s Tower of Jesus Christ.
It's a beautiful journey into faith, architecture, and Gaudí’s vision of lifting humanity’s gaze toward God.

[Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho]

We need to kick identity politics out of public life.

Racism has been weaponised across our public services and institutions.

In the cases of the Nottingham and Southport killers, the Manchester Arena bomb attack, and the murder of Sara Sharif, the people who were meant to protect us from harm failed because they were too scared of being accused of being racist.

This has not happened by accident.

In the years since the Black Lives Matter protests, race-grifting activists who argue we should defund the police, decolonise the curriculum and pay reparations have been given far too much access to our public sector.

Their advice has been as clear as it is wrong: that we should treat people differently based on the colour of their skin to make up for some fictional collective colonial guilt.

One of the root causes is a law called the Public Sector Equality Duty.

It requires every public body to obsess about equality and diversity in everything they do, with the constant threat of being sued if they fail.

It is the doorway through which marched Stonewall fanatics who said biological men should be in women’s prisons and the defund the police brigade who told the police you should treat people differently based on the colour of their skin.

It gave those who said talking about the grooming gangs was an example of ‘anti-Muslim racism’ the power to write up an Islamophobia definition that gives special protections to just one religion.

One politician above all others has had the courage and determination to reject this madness. When Black Lives Matter was preaching about white privilege, Kemi Badenoch was the only voice ripping apart their arguments and exposing why this ideology is so dangerous.

We have to rid ourselves of this dangerous thinking which will only breed more division and resentment.

That’s why I backed Kemi to lead my party, and why the Conservatives would scrap the Public Sector Equality Duty and bring back common sense to our public services.

That’s the only way to restore trust in policing and the wider state: by upholding the age-old principle that we are all equal under the law.

[Rt Hon Steve Baker FRSA 🗽 @SteveBakerFRSA]

😤 “Stupid” was ramming the Constitution for Europe through as the Lisbon Treaty despite its rejection by electorates.

🤷🏻‍♂️Otherwise, I’d never have become a Eurosceptic.

💡I hope @FT looks up “affective polarisation” and “fundamental attribution error”. @profpauldolan may help.

[Peter D. Williams @PeterDCXW]

‘If there is hope, wrote Winston, it lies in the proles’…

[Lysander 🇬🇷 @Since_1944]

“I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.”

Montaigne

[Peter Sarris @peter_sarris]

Not adopting Montaigne’s terminology. But I have always preferred to socialise with non- academics. They are more fun, and often more interested in/ interesting re all sorts of topics as Montaigne suggested. I have had better chats re Byzantium with autodidacts than many students

[Sam Bowman @s8mb]

So good. Wish this was more common!

[CCHQ Press @CCHQPress]

.@nadhimzahawi we know your peerage campaign is still in full swing - and you will literally say anything to get one - but even for you today’s effort on Sky was disgraceful.

Let’s remind everyone what you used to say - a 🧵

[Eric Kaufmann @epkaufm]

Critical race theory ('systemic racism') voodoo dominates institutional DEI policies which produced the Henry Nowak disaster.

The UK government refuses to address this elephant in the room.

[Eric Kaufmann @epkaufm]

Pure critical race ideology. How do I measure, test and falsify ‘power’? If you cant answer it’s not science, just voodoo

[Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah]

When will it sink in? A sovereign country with nearly a thousand years of history is being abolished in a slow-motion revolution. I warned of this nearly 30 years ago, and all I got was mockery and patronising sneers.

[Paulina Guzik @Guzik_Paulina]

"Moralna wielkość narodu objawia się przede wszystkim w jego zdolności towarzyszenia, ochrony i kochania najsłabszych," Powiedział Papież Leon XIV w hiszpańskim parlamencie.

"Obrona ludzkiego życia nie jest ani kwestią partyjną, ani interesem wyznaniowym: jest celem cywilizacji."

"Jeśli życie przestanie być uznawane za fundamentalną wartość, jaką przyszłość będą miały nasze społeczeństwa?"

"Każde ludzkie życie musi być uznane i chronione od poczęcia do naturalnego końca, w każdych okolicznościach jego istnienia. Gdy ta pewność zostaje zatarta, najsłabsi stają się pierwszymi ofiarami, a prawo traci swój najgłębszy sens: służyć i chronić każdego człowieka."
Video: Vatican Media

[Peter D. Williams @PeterDCXW]

I agree, but possibly worth noting that Cromwell was a Congregationalist…

[Anglican Akatosh @AnglicanAkatosh]

"Presbyterianism is metaphysically evil."

[Sebastian Milbank @SebMilbank]

Presbyterian Church in uproar over suggestion that they uphold the sexual ethics of the protagonists of popular 90s sitcom Friends.

[James Heale @JAHeale]

On Friday, the Ukraine War will have lasted 1569 days - longer than the First World War

[Paulina Guzik @Guzik_Paulina]

In what will certainly become one of the most fundamental speeches of his pontificate, Pope Leo XIV told the Spanish Parliament, before receiving a 7-minute standing ovation: "The defense of human life is neither a partisan issue nor a confessional interest: it is a goal of civilization."

"If life ceases to be recognized as a fundamental value, what future can our societies have?" he said, speaking to a gathering of politicians, many supporting abortion and euthanasia.

"Can a community that casts into the shadows the unborn child, the elderly, the sick, those who suffer in silence, or those who depend entirely on the care of others be called fully just?"

"Every human life must be recognized and safeguarded from conception to its natural end, in every circumstance of its existence. When this certainty is obscured, the most vulnerable are the first victims, and the law loses its deepest meaning: to serve and protect every person."

"For this reason, the moral greatness of a nation is manifested, above all, in its capacity to accompany, protect and love those lives that are most fragile," he said, repeating what John Paul II emphasized decades ago.

Starting his speech he commented that Church's is the "message offered in the spirit of service to the human person."

"When the Church addresses anything concerning public life, she does so while respecting the proper mission of institutions and the legitimate responsibility of those who have received the mandate to legislate," Pope Leo said, emphasizing "the Church offers a reflection born of the desire to serve the common good."

He hailed Spain as country that "has known how to view the human being as more than just a cog in the social, economic or political order. It has recognized the human being as a creature open to truth, endowed with freedom, and driven by a thirst for eternity that no temporal reality can quench -- in a word, as someone whose dignity takes precedence over all utility and to whose service legislative action is subject."

He said it was Catholic orders that "helped to shape a legal and moral consciousness capable of remembering that authority always entails responsibility and that every human being must be recognized as a subject of rights and duties."

"That aspiration continues to resonate today: that dignity, justice and the common good should be the measure of social relations, both at the national and international levels."

Referring multiple times to his "Magnifica Humanitas" encyclical, he said: "When the common good ceases to be a shared horizon, public action runs the risk of fragmenting into partial interests, incapable of safeguarding what belongs to all."

"In this context, the family — the primary human reality and the natural foundation of the community — takes on particular importance," Pope Leo said.

"The family will always be the first school of humanity, where one learns, before anywhere else, the basic grammar of living together: welcoming life, caring for others, forgiving, serving and belonging."

"Human life can never be treated as a commodity," the pope said.

"A law does not attain its true greatness merely by having been formally enacted; it attains it when, in addition to being valid in form, it can stand before the dignity of the person and pass that test without shame."

"I invite you, then, to lift your gaze to the world around you, not to turn away from reality, but to remember that every decision by public authorities affects real people, especially those who have less power to make their voices heard."

"The expanse of one’s vision consists precisely in looking more deeply at what is at stake in every public decision. This is why, alongside technical solutions and legal reforms, a moral renewal is also needed."

Video: Vatican Media
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