The report on slavery & reparations ignores historical reality, distorts the present, & imposes an alien ideology on Christian thinking about justice & diversity. It is digging the Church deeper into a hole. @calvinrobinson@simonsarmiento@WalkerMarcus
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Today (the last Sunday before Advent) is Stir-up Sunday, traditionally the day to stir the Christmas pudding. Its name comes from Cranmer's translation of this ancient prayer for the day, 'Excita, Domine...': 'Stir up, we beseech thee, O Lord, the wills of thy faithful people...'
Sad to read of the death of Timothy Daunt: my former boss and the outstanding diplomat of his generation. No one in the Foreign Office understood Turkey the way he did. No one had his ability to summarise an issue with one laconic phrase.
🏉 Keighley Cougars go to Parliament. The Sports Minister, Rt Hon Stuart Andrew MP together with Robbie Moore MP met with Cougars owners Kaue Garcia and Ryan O'Neill to hear their objections to the IMG proposed cartel.
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Bishops have a habit of leaving their robes behind when they retire from the House of Lords. We have been sorting through the large number, and so far, discovered ones owned by Cundy, Booth-Clibborn, Selby and Askwith.