Turn, Turn, Turn - The Seekers
Just because Happy Jack likes this song!
And loved the singer!
What’s the real reason Labour is reluctant to hold a grooming gangs inquiry?
After decades of silence, a long-overdue debate has erupted about the rape gangs in British towns. A backlash has been growing since GB News reported that the Labour government’s Safeguarding Minister, Jess Phillips, had rejected calls from grooming gang survivors in the northern town of Oldham for a public inquiry into the abuse they suffered and the way it was covered up. The interventions of Elon Musk, J.D. Vance, Nigel Farage, and Kemi Badenoch have made it difficult to ignore the depravity of organised grooming gang activity in England. Click for: Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips' letter. For more than 20 years it has been an open secret that, in numerous English towns and cities, ‘Asian’—principally Pakistani—rape gangs were operating in plain sight of the local police and officialdom. These gangs were given a free pass to carry on with their monstrous crimes because neither the local nor the national elites were prepared to acknowledge the fact that mul...
The Book of Ecclesiastes as its author surely envisioned it! And how nice to see in the video Judith and the lads bringing in the harvest of Pinot Waggawagga.
ReplyDeleteAh, the young Judith Durham. The single greatest motivation for the development of time travel. Here's one I really love her singing because, despite its barroom pedigree, you actually have to be able to sing to put it across.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftBAXo00M6s
Time, gentlemen, your glasses please, come on now haven't you got any homes to go to...
DeleteMeanwhile, General Synod has set up a commission to consider whether to continue referring to God as 'he' or use a gender neutral term. Wrestling with the real issues again, the pews will be packed.
ReplyDeleteThere is a time for organisations to spring up, and a time for them to wither away.
"A time you may embrace, a time to refrain from embracing."
DeleteSynod member reported to police for ‘hate crime’ for campaigning against Queer Theory and sexualisation of children
And he was publicly rebuked by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York.
DeleteInteresting that a line in that letter reads: "Membership of the Synod is a way in which we serve before God." Surely there was no need for the 'before' there. Everybody gotta serve somebody, as Bob Dylan once said.
DeleteFascinating. It seems that they do know how to wield archepiscopal discipline after all! Not for radical departures from Anglican practice, of course, but for saying hurty things on Twitter.
DeleteThere is no longer any difference between the CofE and the world (in the Johannine sense) Any 'traditional' Anglicans still in the CofE at this point are like people standing on the deck of the Titanic assuring each other that the cold water in their shoes is nothing to worry about.
Well, it seems Synod comes before God ....
DeleteI guess we all serve before God, as He sees everything, but I can't help thinking that they would have focused their minds on the jobs they are paid to do if they'd left that word out.
DeleteA half-century later, John Cleese is promising a new series of Fawlty Towers. However, the censorship of woke is very constraining ... What will he be allowed to get away with, I wonder?
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Oh, he really should, and he probably still could.
DeleteI loved that series. Sad that British humour has been curbed by censorship. I look forward to see what Cleese comes up with in spite of the challenges....From Cressida
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