Jo Come, O Come Emmanuel.

Show me where Trump has submitted to the Pope.

Joe Biden regularly and publicly attended Mass. He visibly embraced Catholic religiosity more than JFK ever did. As VP too.

My parents are like this: they just can’t conceive of Biden, whose favorite hymn is my grandma’s favorite hymn, as also a Catholic. It all goes in a memory black hole.

Having had a recent experience with bruising recently, I’d recommend you take some ibuprofen asap if you haven’t already.

A group of people in cassocks and Santa hats singing outside a supermarket. One of them uses a wheelchair.

We’re carol singing outside the Coop - and raising money for youth projects in Zimbabwe

tarirouk.com

Oh Marie, that looks really nasty!

Yeah. Some people think “visible poverty” (and indeed “visibly not upper middle class”) is automatically scary and dangerous.

Good point in a good thread. It's wild! Bill Burr lives in *Los Angeles* a city that is in every way more dangerous and worse than London!

Who?!

Yeah, which doesn’t say much for them!

Aye, I’m sure she just sometimes gets a wee bit too passionate about the Burghers’ Oath.

I doubt she’s a passionate supporter of Cowdenbeath…

Yes. *Conception* is a perfectly Anglican observance

You’d be good! (And I think Digital Comms has been better and more interesting lately)

I mean he can't even manage a tepid "I'm sure if Mr Trump knew Sadiq Khan as well as I do, then..."

I am unconvinced it will work (and the Khan stuff is possibly even worse)

!!!!!

Also they've completely forgotten about Northern Ireland (as usual), where this could cause complete chaos

It's extremely racist.

This is just pathetic.

Is she trying to do acelerationism? Or is she just confused?

Really rather surprised that Badenoch is apparently opposed to the decision to remove Shamina Begum's citizenship, preventing her from returning to the UK.

Deprivation of British citizenship and withdrawal of passports In the 21st century there has been a revived use of government powers to deprive people of their British citizenship and withhold UK passports, particularly as a counter-terrorism measure.

There were over 1000 deprivation of citizenship orders since 2010. (Commons Library) so the current pattern would seem to be the inverse of that claimed by the Opposition: there seems to be much more prevalence of removal from UK than to the UK
commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...

This statement appears to be untrue for 95-99% of British people convicted and imprisoned abroad

When are we to expect newspaper front-page interview features with Dr. Beth Upton about her two-year ordeal of having her right to anonymity removed and her name dragged through the mud and being decried as a sexual predator only for a tribunal to clear her and find SHE was discriminated against?

I don't want my service use unwrapped or packed up before the 31st of December, really. It's still weeks till then, I might get into Country or start reading romantasy novels between then and now.

Hey, we can do that perfectly well by ourselves!

<sigh>

Oxfordshire County Council is “urgently reviewing” its use of X, formerly Twitter, as a result of “very recent news regarding Elon Musk and his use of his platform”. Devon, Southampton, and Warwick councils have all recently quit the platform.

What a beautiful day for a fire drill!

(It was pretty much ok, actually - though it looks like it might be a bit dodgy for this afternoon’s carol singing adventures)

It's the announcement you didn't know you were waiting for.

*FANFARE*
(Drumrolls are so passé)

Introducing the inaugural QUIRES AND PLACES NOTE OF THE YEAR.

For services to altos and generally being a very useful note all round, this year we're awarding our Note of the Year to:

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you know who's got some good book titles? The Council for the Care of Churches.
"It won't happen to us: a guide to church insurance"
"Sounds good! a guide to church organs"
"Widening the eye of the needle: a guide to church access"
"how not to do it: installing electricity in your church (1940)"