Mr Chipping

The National Trust was set up so people could donate property in lieu of tax they couldn't pay. So if it's going to be run into a morass of tedious rubbish like this by a narrow DEI-obsessed clique it would be reasonable for the government to step in.

#Sunderland is a city enriched by its Nigerian community, whose faith, hard work, generosity and contribution to our common life deserve to be celebrated. I’m privileged to have seen this contribution in my ministry in this great city. Councillor Glenn Gibbons’ conviction over his comments should remind us that words matter. Every person deserves dignity and respect. We are called to build bridges, not walls. Hatred has no place in our city.

Maybe I’m just a reactionary - but I find this type of thing grotesque. Remembrance is meant to be a solemn affair, not a gaudy display. The further the two world wars get from living memory the more we see this kind of thing replacing actual remembrance:

There are people who would find the idea of the state inflicting corporal punishment medieval and depraved but quite like the idea of it being inflicted by Gazza and Mo from D-Wing.

I am sorry to report that I have once again taken the Nap That Makes You Feel Worse

This is a mystery because no one in the naval officer corps would ever consider that a man would have sex with a woman

On Thursday I wrote about the 2014 injunction Russell Brand obtained against a woman who accused him of assault. I've now obtained the final order. It's breathtaking. She had no lawyer. No trial. Yet she was silenced for life - even barred from speaking to the police. 🧵:

Our Office of Divine Worship explains why the faithful should refrain from extending their hands during the Our Father at Mass: "Further, the Second Vatican Council’s Constitution on Sacred Liturgy, Sacrosanctum Concilium, states that “no other person, even if he be a priest, may add, remove, or change anything in the liturgy on his own authority.” (SC 22.3) Since the GIRM is very specific that the priest is instructed by the GIRM (152) to extend his hands when he prays the Lord’s Prayer, for the deacons or the laity to extend their hands would be adding to the liturgy. Therefore, the practice of the lay faithful extending their hands (or holding hands) during the Our Father should not be done." Read more: archdpdx.org/news/divine-wor…

The Church of England are wrong on this. The ban must be comprehensive, and that means no loopholes for "non-abusive" therapy, group therapies included, a ban on advertising, and clarity on how it will work for people who aren't out yet. Because no version of conversion is acceptable.

I have been waiting 24 years for my neighbor David Westerfield to be executed for the kidnapping and murder of my 7-year-old neighbor, Danielle van Dam. And now thanks to @GavinNewsom, it looks like it will never happen. I was 13 when he abducted her from her bedroom in the middle of the night in 2002. I would never equate what I experienced with what her family suffered, but Danielle's murder devastated our whole neighborhood, and me personally. I was a sensitive kid and it was a major contributor to my mental health decline in adolescence. In the 20 days between her disappearance and his arrest, I developed insomnia and spent those nights walking around the house checking the locks on the doors and windows. I followed the trial closely. As we learned the horrific details, I couldn't stop thinking about what she endured during the 3 days he had her. Her body was found dumped off the side of a road 25 days after she went missing. It was too decomposed to test for sexual assault, but we all knew that's why he took her. He was also convicted of possessing child sexual abuse material found on his computer. There was never any doubt about Westerfield's guilt. There was an abundance of forensic evidence, including her blood on his clothing and in his motorhome. In 2019, the California Supreme Court unanimously upheld his conviction and death sentence. Shortly afterward, Newsom imposed his moratorium. And now he does THIS. California voters rejected abolishing the death penalty in both 2012 and 2016, and even voted to expedite executions. All these years, I've held on to the hope that someone would eventually take office who respected the will of California voters and would allow these sentences to be carried out. It's especially insulting to hear Newsom go on about morality, as if he is morally superior to those of us whose lives were affected by these heinous crimes and who want to see the perpetrators brought to justice. I'm hoping the California Supreme Court can stop Westerfield's commutation.

A group of fluffy king penguin chicks chasing a feral cat in the Falkland Islands

guy who's pro military conscription solely because it creates large bodies of persons who know how to march and convincingly fight and can be loaned out to studios for cheap

You have to email the Houthis if you want your ship to cross the Red Sea. They reply within 24hrs

I hope this happens and I can't wait to see huffy indignation from the fraternity of barristers that this would hmm ackshually be an abuse of parliamentary privelige and Ms Berki's evidence must sit behind a rapist's injunction forever

#OnThisDay 70 years ago in 1956 and after having achieved their initial aims the Royal Navy withdrew it's 5 Aircraft Carriers from the assault zone in Suez. The ill-fated crisis would end in humiliation for the UK & France shortly after following international condemnation.

Sorry Kemi, but on this we’ve got it wrong. Conversion therapy is a horrible abuse that should be outlawed. No one can be “made” to be straight or cisgender. The quibbles outlined here are easily solved in amendments.

This should genuinely result in prison time. This is election deception.

What place has this popery in the assembly in the Protestant Reformed Church as by law established?