Steven Rodger

Burnley Fan UK, Dolphins Fan US, Father of Two, Husband of One....

[Steven Rodger @SteRodg]

@thesefootytimes Spain 82:
Italy 90:
USA 94:

[Steven Rodger @SteRodg]

@BetMGMUK France

[Julian booth @julesbfc69]

A bit crude but funny!

[Steven Rodger @SteRodg]

Please get someone into our club that has a clue about football or this will all end in tears......

[The Burnley Way @TheBurnleyWay]

Somebody needs to come in and give the entire club a kicking from top to bottom and get rid of this loser mentality.

Also, small detail, do the editors know Marching on Together isn't our song? Weird choice leaving it in...

#TwitterClarets

[Dan Qayyum @DanQayyum]

What did Charles actually do? He praised NATO in front of its loudest critic. He championed climate action in front of a climate denier. He called for interfaith dialogue during an administration that has banned citizens from Muslim-majority countries. He praised checks and balances on executive power to a room full of lawmakers who have been unable to exercise them. He referenced the Middle East crisis that is currently straining the alliance he was there to celebrate. He defended the Royal Navy after Trump publicly insulted it. And he did all of this while receiving standing ovations, bipartisan laughter, and a dinner invitation.

[Mykhailo Rohoza @MykhailoRohoza]

⚡️👍🇬🇧 King Charles didn’t need to raise his voice. Standing in Congress, he quietly reminded Trump’s America what real leadership looks like:
He called out executive overreach.
He defended NATO from Trump’s claims that allies “were never there.”
He stood with Ukraine while Trump and Vance flirt with appeasing Moscow.
This is soft power with a backbone.
Never been more proud that this man is our sovereign.
God save the King. 👑

[The Burnley Way @TheBurnleyWay]

“We scored a goal, to a man, we can be happy. Fine margins, to a man, this young group.

To a man, Sunderland at home, the margins, back 3 or back 4, young group.”

[The Burnley Way @TheBurnleyWay]

@BurnleyOfficial Tbf you can’t expect a young group with an average age of 27 to manage a 1-0 lead

[The British Patriot @TheBritLad]

🚨NEW: British and English flags are returning across Birmingham after the council said they were banned.

Locals have said: “for every one flag
removed, they will raise hundreds more”

Patriotism is surging once again.

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

🚨St. Patricks Day parade in Ireland is absolutely COVERED in Palestine Flags

What a disgrace

Do they even know what they're doing promoting these Islamists?

[Bishop Ceirion H. Dewar FSHC @BishopDewar]

As a Bishop, I cannot stay silent. I have today drafted and sent an open letter to His Majesty King Charles III, the text of which reads as follows:

To:
His Majesty, Charles III,
King of the United Kingdom and the Realms,
Supreme Governor of the Church of England,
Bearer of the ancient title Defender of the Faith.

Your Majesty,

I write to you neither as a politician nor as a commentator, but as one of your loyal subjects who, as a bishop of Christ’s Church, cannot remain silent while the Christian foundations of this kingdom are steadily dismantled.

Sir, there are moments in the life of a nation when silence becomes a form of betrayal. If I refused to speak to Your Majesty now, this would be such a moment.

For more than a thousand years the Crown of this realm has stood in solemn covenant with the Christian faith.

The laws of this land were shaped by it.
The liberties of our people were nurtured by it.
The conscience of our civilisation was formed by it.

From the abbeys of medieval England to the parish churches of our villages, from the preaching of the Reformers to the missionary zeal that carried the Gospel to the ends of the earth, the Christian faith has not merely influenced Britain — it has defined her.

Yet today that inheritance is being quietly but deliberately eroded. Across the institutions of this nation there is a growing hostility toward the faith that built them.

Christian belief is mocked in the public square. Christian morality is dismissed as intolerance. Christian institutions are pressured to surrender doctrine in order to conform to the ideology of the age.

Within the very Church that bears the name of England, voices have arisen that appear more eager to mirror the spirit of the age than to proclaim the eternal truth of the Gospel.

Meanwhile, beyond the walls of our churches, powerful political movements openly speak of removing Christianity from its historic place within the life of this nation.

What would once have been whispered is now proclaimed openly: that Britain must become a post-Christian state.

It is in this context that I write to you, Your Majesty. For the British Crown does not stand apart from this crisis.

The Sovereign of this realm bears a title that is not merely historic but sacred in its origin and meaning: Defender of the Faith. Those words are not decorative. They are a charge.

They speak of a monarch whose duty is not merely to preside over the ceremonies of the Church, but to stand as a guardian of the Christian inheritance of the nation.

Yet many among your subjects now ask, with increasing anxiety: “Who will defend that inheritance today?”

They see a nation drifting from its foundations. And they ask whether the Crown will remain silent while that inheritance is dismantled.

Your Majesty, may I be so bold as to observe that your coronation oath was not a poetic formality. It was a solemn vow made before Almighty God to maintain and preserve the Protestant Reformed Religion established by law.

Those words bind the conscience of the sovereign. They remind the Crown that its authority is not merely constitutional but moral. The monarch is not merely a symbol of national continuity, but a custodian of the spiritual inheritance that shaped this realm.

History records moments when kings and emperors were confronted by the Church and reminded that their authority was accountable before God. In the fourth century Ambrose of Milan stood before the Emperor Theodosius I and reminded him that even the ruler of an empire must bow before the moral law of Christ.

That tradition of prophetic witness has never disappeared. Nor should it. For when rulers forget the foundations upon which their authority rests, the Church must speak — not with hostility, but with holy clarity.

And so, I write to say this, Your Majesty: The Christian character of this nation is under profound and accelerating assault.

If the Crown does not stand visibly and courageously in defence of that inheritance, history will record that the guardians of Britain’s institutions watched in silence as the foundations were removed.

The issue before us is not nostalgia. It is civilisation. Remove Christianity from the story of Britain and you do not create a neutral society — you create a moral vacuum. And history teaches us that moral vacuums are never left empty for long.

Your Majesty now stands at a crossroads that few monarchs in modern history have faced.

For the erosion of Britain’s Christian inheritance will not ultimately be judged by speeches made in Parliament or debates in the press. It will be judged by whether those entrusted with the guardianship of our ancient institutions chose to defend them — or merely preside over their quiet surrender.

You may preside over the quiet dissolution of Britain’s Christian identity. Or you may rise to the ancient responsibility entrusted to the Crown and speak with clarity about the faith that built this kingdom. The first path requires little courage. The second will require a great deal. But it is the path that history honours.

Your Majesty’s subjects are not asking for religious coercion. They are asking for leadership. They are asking that the sovereign who bears the title Defender of the Faith remember what that title means.

They are asking that the Crown hear the growing cry of anguish from Christians across this land who feel that the spiritual inheritance of their nation is being surrendered without resistance. And they are asking whether the Crown will stand with them.

For the faith that shaped Britain is not merely a cultural ornament. It is the wellspring from which our laws, our liberties, and our moral imagination have flowed. If it is cast aside, the nation will discover — too late — that it has severed itself from the very roots that sustained it.

Your Majesty, to many the Crown is a symbol of authority. But before God it is also a symbol of stewardship. And stewardship carries with it the duty to defend what has been entrusted.

May Almighty God grant Your Majesty the wisdom to discern this hour, and the courage to fulfil the sacred duty entrusted to the Crown.

Yours faithfully,

Bishop Ceirion H. Dewar FSHC
Missionary Bishop
Diocese of Providence
Confessing Anglican Church

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[Nick Timothy MP @NJ_Timothy]

Too many are too polite to say this.

But mass ritual prayer in public places is an act of domination.

The adhan - which declares there is no god but allah and Muhammad is his messenger - is, when called in a public place, a declaration of domination.

Perform these rituals in mosques if you wish. But they are not welcome in our public places and shared institutions.

And given their explicit repudiation of Christianity they certainly do not belong in our churches and cathedrals.

I am not suggesting everybody at Trafalgar Square last night is an Islamist. But the domination of public places is straight from the Islamist playbook.

Trafalgar Square belongs to all of us. It is a national memorial to our independence and our salvation.

Last night was not like a televised football match or a St Patrick’s Day celebration.

It was an act of domination and therefore division.

It shouldn’t happen again.

[Orla Minihane @orlaminihane]

There are approximately 500 mosques in London. There is zero reason this should be happening in Trafalgar Square tonight! This is not Islamabad ! @RestoreBritain_

[Steven Rodger @SteRodg]

@AlanPaceBFC

[Football Tweet ⚽ @Footballtweet]

🌳 Nottingham Forest fan Ellie Molloson has gone viral for her rant on the atmosphere in modern Premier League stadiums — and plenty of supporters will probably agree with her.:

🗣️ “They don’t want us. They don’t want loyal fans. We’re cheaper, we’re worse behaved, and we’re not just going to sit pretty and clap. We’re fans, we’re real. It’s our life, it’s our community. These are just excuses and we can’t give in to them. And I don’t think it’s a countrywide issue, I think it’s a Premier League issue.

The Championship—I don’t want to go back down, I don’t want to jinx it—but the atmosphere was so good, I miss it. The banter between stands, the fact that we were actually singing. You go to—no offence, and you’re not going to like this—but you go to Anfield and it’s dry. You can hear things through the tannoy. All we hear when we go to Chelsea or Arsenal is one song, because it’s just tourists. It is just tourists.

We are the product. We pay the wages at the end of the day. I know literally it’s not us, but why do broadcasters want to broadcast football? Because there are fans. Without fans, there is no football.”

🎥 @WeAreTheOverlap

[Burnley Express - Burnley FC news @BXSport]

Opinion: Burnley's first trip to Everton's new ground felt like one giant waste of time https://t.co/kG7C8JIT2l

[Steven Rodger @SteRodg]

I'm all for not turning into a Forest and firing managers every bad result, but this is bordering on ridiculous now @AlanPaceBFC Come on enough is enough

[Steven Rodger @SteRodg]

I wish he would waver good bye now, enough is enough. I don't like to be negative but this team has had all the talent and creativity coached out of them, individually they are not bad players but as a team they look terrible, that is only down to the man at the helm...

[Burnley Express - Burnley FC news @BXSport]

'I will not waver': Burnley boss Scott Parker vows to fight on despite fan discontent during West Ham defeat https://t.co/2vGL4vGz3q

[steve @bagshaw2112]

Be careful we have had a mm of #snow in the uk

Be careful today #snow

It snowed last night...
8:00 am: I made a snowman.

8:10 - A feminist passed by and asked me why I didn't make a snow woman.

8:15 - So, I made a snow woman.

8:17 - My feminist neighbor complained about the snow woman's voluptuous chest saying it objectified snow women everywhere.

8:20 - The gay couple living nearby threw a hissy fit and moaned it could have been two snow men instead.

8:22 - The transgender man..women...person asked why I didn't just make one snow person with detachable parts.

8:25 - The vegans at the end of the lane complained about the carrot nose, as veggies are food and not to decorate snow figures with.

8:28 - I was being called a racist because the snow couple is white.

8:31 - The middle eastern gent across the road demanded the snow woman be covered up .

8:40 - The Police arrived saying someone had been offended.

8:42 - The feminist neighbor complained again that the broomstick of the snow woman needed to be removed because it depicted women in a domestic role.

8:43 - The council equality officer arrived and threatened me with eviction.

8:45 - TV news crew from BBC showed up. I was asked if I know the difference between snowmen and snow-women? I replied "Snowballs" and am now called a sexist.

9:00 - I was on the News as a suspected terrorist, racist, homophobe sensibility offender, bent on stirring up trouble during difficult weather.

9:10 - I was asked if I have any accomplices. My children were taken by social services.

9:29 - Far left protesters offended by everything marched down the street demanding for me to be arrested.

By noon it all melted

Moral:

There is no moral to this story. It is what we have become, all because of snowflakes

[leilani dowding 🌸🚜 ☮️ @LeilaniDowding]

Rylan is absolutely spot on .. If he keeps his job after this then the the tide has finally turned and the Overton window has shifted. People see this for what it is. Not some be-kind Virtual suicidal empathy game. “there's something wrong here. Here's the hotel, here's the phones, here's your iPad, here's three meals a day, have a lovely time.” While Brits are struggling

[Blessed Trinity RCC @BTRCCinfo]

Sam and Matty are off to @MyerscoughColl to study golf. Both will play in the Lancashire Trophy for East Lancs at Royal Lytham this week. Well done!