The recent survey of Church of England priests in England by @thetimes found more than half of them now support a change in law to allow them to conduct same-sex marriages, 53.4% were in favour, only 36.5% against. The gentle and gracious tide of inclusion is unstoppable!
Instead of backing Tory deputy chair, Lee Anderson, for claiming asylum seekers should “f*** off” to France if they don’t like being housed on the Bibby Stockholm barge, perhaps Downing St should disassociate itself from his language & attitude and set an example worth following.
Let's face it. They turn up expecting every entitlement. We give them free accommodation and subsidised food. Some even commit crimes while we fund them! They may pretend to integrate with us, but really they hate our culture and our laws.
Put these Tory ministers on a barge.
I've just signed an open letter from survivors of torture to Portland Port's CEO to tell him: SAY NO TO FLOATING PRISONS
Will you join me?
@FreefromTorture https://t.co/SabZM3bHtp
@mhdksafa The fact you have to pay for medicine to stay alive is frankly shocking. Folk in the U.K. need to wake up and see what the tories are slowly doing to the NHS
Ephrem the Syrian on the woman of Samaria:
“First she saw a thirsty man,
then a Jew,
then a Rabbi,
then a prophet,
and finally the Messiah.
She tried to best the thirsty man,
disdained the Jew,
heckled the Rabbi,
was swept off her feet by the prophet,
and adored the Christ.”
Cornwall voted massively for Brexit and is 100% Tory-run.
It received over £1 billion in EU funding from 2000 and was to receive another £350m after 2020.
Instead, it was awarded £18 million and beaches covered in human excrement.
Brexit illustrated.
https://t.co/83uhPJdLQ4
Two sea tragedies in one week. Both are newsworthy. In one, 5 millionaires who paid $250,000 per trip are lost. In the other, 500 refugees who paid their life savings are lost. And yet only one of these tragedies has attracted widespread global media coverage. Why?
#RefugeeWeek23
Two boat disasters. One arising from excess wealth, one arising from excess poverty. Both are tragedies. But it seems we are only interested in one of them and have quickly forgotten the other
The choir has decided not to sing the Magnificat at Evensong because of fears its themes of persecution of the powerful and uprising from the masses would risk a backlash from Tory politicians and the rightwing press
I once revealed in @thetimes how John Humphrys made money from speeches slagging off the then Labour government. The Tories/Daily Mail squealed about his freedom so he kept his job interviewing politicians on @BBCr4today, unlike @GaryLineker who presents football on @BBCMOTD.