@malcolmwallace.bsky.social
haskell hacker, vicar’s wife, accidental banker
🔴First Past the Post to Be Scrapped for English Mayoral Elections in Bid to Reverse Conservative ‘Gerrymandering’
The move reverses changes made by the last Conservative Government, which was accused of seeking to “stitch up” elections in its own favour
bylinetimes.com/2025/07/10/f...
Here is a list I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits. Defense of democracy seen as basic to the job. Symmetrical accounts of asymmetrical realities seen as malpractice. “Politics as strategic game” frame seen as low quality, downmarket, amateurish— and overmatched. Bad actors with a history of misinforming the public seen as unsuitable sources and unwelcome guests. Internalizing of the “liberal bias” critique seen as self-crippling, a historic mistake in need of correction.
Here's something I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.
12.06.2025 15:55 — 👍 2935 🔁 1224 💬 76 📌 85
God bless the @diotruro.bsky.social, and David Williams at the start of a new ministry in Cornwall. @trurocathedral.bsky.social @churchofengland.org
18.05.2025 07:24 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0fun fact: this is why we have a little yellow corner in our logo!
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Zelenskyy should phrase the war to Trump as being a tsunami of illegal immigrants taking over. Gotta speak the same language as the tyrant, for him to listen.
01.03.2025 14:43 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A photo of Truro cathedral with the caption "Truro Cathedral - how many spires does this cathedral have? Wikipedia and I disagree."
If you look up Truro Cathedral you will ind a number of fun facts. I shall list the chree most commonly shared ones here, in order of truthfulness. The first "fun fact' about Truro Cathedral is that it's the first Anglican Cathedral in England built on a new site since the Reformation. This is true. In fact, it's che first since Salisbury was relocated in 1220, It's our only fully Victorian Cathedral, and that phrase alone should be foreshadowing for regular readers. The second fun fact' about Truro Cathedral is that it is the place where Nine Lessons and Carols was first held. This is true, and also not; in that though the service of Nine Lessons and Carols was invented by the first Bishop of Truro and held in the building serving as the Cathedral at that time, the building in question was a temporary wooden structure they were using as a Pro-Cathedral (the fancy term for a temporary Cathedral), because the actual Cathedral I'm about to show you would, in fact, take another 7 years of construction to be usable The third 'fun fact' about Truro Cathedral is that it's one of three Cathedrals in the UK with three spires. This is bollocks. I have no idea why people say this. There are four spires. I will elaboratre later, but I have become a Spire Trucher. This is my new weird conspiracy theory. Why is the Big Cathedral Spire Lobby trying to keep Truro down and deny her the honour of being a Four Spired Cathedral??? With this all said... let us begin.
saw a balcony in the north west transept when I was looking around earlier. Also these sketchy looking pathways. How am I supposed to resist that? This text is followed by two images of walkways bridging the corners high up in a cathedral
I hadn't thought much about the concert going on in the nave until this point, but now, I realised there was a problem. I'm here, north side of the great east window. Minding my own business, Enjoying the view. Followed by an image of the south side of the cathedral from high up. Then more text: In the nave? Hundreds of people enjoying a concert. Then the same photo, but taken at a slight angle to show that the nave of the cathedral is full of people.
I've got a new long read for you, in which I climb Truro Cathedral, turn into a conspiracy theorist about church spires, and try really hard not to interrupt a Christmas carol concert.
It's packed with pretty pictures and you can read the whole thing here: jayhulmepoet.substack.com/p/truro-cath...
Friends, a petition I've created to go to Parliament for the protection of Trans Healthcare in the UK has just gone live. If you are in the United Kingdom, please sign and share this. If you are not in the United Kingdom, please share it.
#Trans #LGBTQ #UK
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Organ voluntary that's just All I Want For Christmas, except the organ is ENORMOUS, the venue is a cathedral, and the floor is vibrating at the bass notes.
18.12.2024 22:09 — 👍 115 🔁 7 💬 10 📌 1Are you looking for an Advent hymn that everyone knows. Here is one that I wrote to the tune of "Once in Royal". Feel free to use it in worship if you find it helpful. suewallace.blogspot.com/2024/10/a-ne...
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Wed Dec 18th 2024 7:30pm - 9:30pm CAROLS WITH PRIDE Carols with Pride. Come and join in the celebration of the Christmas story with Cornwall Pride. This service tells the story of Christmas and celebrates love, welcome and diversity. We welcome everyone, including the LGBTQI+ community, their families, friends and allies to join us on this joyous occasion. These carols, readings, and music services will include poetry performed by Jay Hulme, a poet, performer, and educator.
In December I'm heading down to Cornwall for the first time to do some poems at the Cathedral... Wanna come?
www.trurocathedral.org.uk/whats-on/car...
Elon admits that any post on X with a link is throttled
He advises you to upload content directly to X instead, where he can monetize it
Musk is the richest person in the world and his view is everyone should work for him for free
"Disrupt" is code for "Destroy reliable established services so that money previously widely distributed now funnels into a single source." Just like "AI" is code for "Mine the work humans did in the past so we don't have to pay them for their work in the future." That's why VCs like both words.
25.11.2024 13:07 — 👍 7391 🔁 2322 💬 129 📌 73Do you ever get the feeling the world’s gone crazy? With this in mind, I play the Flintstones theme in the style of the Russian classics.
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