Marcus Walker

A clergyman in the Church of England in the Diocese of London. Musings in Church and State and late Roman History (and, in fact, any history).

[Jane Charman (@janeeecharman.bsky.social) @janeeecharman]

Dioceses regularly announce appointments and anything to do with so called ‘senior’ clergy but this is the first time I’ve seen one publicly say thank you and godspeed to a retiring parish priest. Well done, @DioceseofDurham, you may have started a fashion.

[Daniel Heaton @2D0XPS]

Of all the virtues to signal, the equal value Christians give to all people regardless of disability is pretty high up there.

[England of Old @englandofold]

"Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again." - Captain James Cook 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[Marcus Walker @WalkerMarcus]

@liam43102 Don’t we know it!

[Marcus Walker @WalkerMarcus]

To be fair, not recognising something in front of their eyes is currently a feature of the police force he leads.

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

Chief Constable for Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary Alexis Boon said his force had been subjected to unfair criticism. He said he does not accept the term two tier policing and does not recognise it. He will not resign.

[Michael Merrifield @AstroMikeMerri]

Those paragraphs baldly describe £95M of money squandered by @UniofNottingham’s senior managers, *none* of whom were held to account; they slipped off to new jobs. The staff they left behind are being made redundant to pay for it. It is sickening.

https://t.co/8flce3rI8S

[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

37 years ago the Chinese army killed large numbers of people in Beijing and elsewhere when it cracked down on student protests. I was there and saw it happen myself. Nowadays China tries to claim the Tiananmen massacre was invented by the international media. That’s a total lie.

[Marcus Walker @WalkerMarcus]

It’s interesting how much more robust it is to use negative framing, “without favour or affection, malice or ill will”, than the positive framing of “with fairness, integrity, diligence and impartiality, upholding basic human rights and according equal respect to all people”.

[MB @paxangloceltae]

Here are what I will call Oath 1.0 and Oath 2.0 side by side. The Oath evolved organically but the wording of 1.0 was settled on in the 19th century and used until 2.0 (set out in Schedule 2 of the Police Act 1964, and carried forward unchanged into Sch 4 of the Police Act 1996).

[Will Metcalfe @thewillmetcalfe]

I'm not sure she's thought this one through...

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

Lots of pro russian Irish people telling me to ‘go to the front lines & leave Ireland’

I’ve just come here from Nikopol. The press armour is still in my bag. I watched Russian drones hunt civilians with my own eyes. That’s why the indifference here is so despicable, especially while Ireland still supplies alumina to Russias war machine.

I’m not going anywhere. This investigation continues

[Tom Gordon @DMScotPol]

🧵You couldn't make it up.

Amid the Peter Murrell and Indyref2 funding scandals, the SNP is proposing to take control of the Holyrood committees dealing with finance, criminal justice and public service reform by having its MSPs as both the convener and deputy convener..

[Marcus Walker @WalkerMarcus]

@MattHar65517869 😞

[Marcus Walker @WalkerMarcus]

And all at the same time as 30,000 children have been driven from their schools and friends in an act of vicious spite.

[Laura Trott MP @LauraTrottMP]

Labour promised 6,500 new teachers. Today we learned that there are 1,900 FEWER teachers. It turns out Keir Starmer’s approach to promises is the same as he does with his messages - auto delete.

[Jimmy Rushton @JimmySecUK]

Why is defending the security of the United Kingdom - supposedly the first priority of any government - “unaffordable”, whilst maintaining the ruinously expensive “triple lock” increases to pensions is not?

[Luke de Pulford @lukedepulford]

It’s June 4th in Hong Kong. 🕯️

[Tom Tugendhat @TomTugendhat]

This is ethnic cleansing amounting to genocide being conducted by the Chinese state.

Muslim communities are murdered and their mosques destroyed. Their qurans burned and families torn apart.

Where are the marches? Where are the protests?

[Mary Harrington @moveincircles]

Meanwhile, in government spending that might actually be nationally useful:

[Tom Tugendhat @TomTugendhat]

The ethical gymnastics here are remarkable to watch. @CaolanReports is investigating the murder of Ukrainian women and children by Russia’s war machine. He’s gone to a plant in Ireland that makes that possible but killing Ukrainian children isn’t grounds for sanctions, according to local voices. But it would be for Israel.

[Marcus Walker @WalkerMarcus]

@2D0XPS @angcathalex Please do tell me when you have seen adults struggle with this one passage? In a bible study? That’s the ideal time to explore the meaning of words. In a sermon? That’s on you whether that’s a point to pick out or not.

[Marcus Walker @WalkerMarcus]

@2D0XPS @angcathalex There is an obvious reason once you reflect on the sentence to think it’s not talking about Usain Bolt and the Dead.

It’s a straight up choice: do you think adults should restrict their vocabulary to that of a seven year old or that seven year olds will grow up to be adults?