Jo Kershaw

Amen

No, daylight saving shenanigans are ending! (Good tip, though)

I hope the boy racers give up and go home soon. Summer is not here and the time is not right to go racing in the street.

I have only just spotted that the grammar book Doctor Cornelius is using to teach Caspian is by an author called Pulverulentus Siccus, and that is such a bad joke.

Anyway, I’m going to go to bed and read Prince Caspian.

It’s racist, it’s extremist and it’s immoral The right is still calling for deportations, and the government is still being cowardly about it. Also: London’s first green belt; some notes on a shark; and some news, on my next book.

"The idea of deporting people with settled status is disgusting, and anyone proposing it should be immediately drummed out of polite society. Breaking promises made in good faith to our friends and neighbours is racist, extremist and immoral."

I'm basically shouting at the sky here, but still.

Snickers bar and a metal whistle

Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.

Protesters rally outside Philly ICE office as Catholics launch ‘One Church, One Family’ campaign for immigrants A second day of prayer is set for Nov. 13, to coincide with the feast of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, an Italian immigrant who became the first U.S. citizen to be declared a saint.

Dozens of Philadelphia-area Catholics rallied outside the Center City ICE office on Wednesday, joining a pro-immigrant push undertaken by fellow church groups around the country.

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

Thanks! (I had a Chutney Incident once and the enamelled pan did not survive. Wasn’t Le Crueset, though)

Albrecht Dürer did his best, but…

Yes, hopefully! Thank goodness it’s stainless steel…

Absolutely. It’s a deeply uncomfortable book but it is very much about God being on the side of the poor and the ACTUALLY downtrodden.

It’s wicked.

A Balloon Site, Coventry, 1942, by Laura Knight.

Yeah I think you’re right about the chemistry (and they’re a preparation of maize, not unlike polenta).

Alas, yes

Katie Lam on X: "Most migrants can get Indefinite Leave to Remain after 5 years. It means they can stay here forever. And claim welfare, social housing and free healthcare. Millions of recent migrants didn’t come to work. Giving them ILR will cost us hundreds of billions. We mustn’t do it. https://t.co/2prSzm0RRP" / X Most migrants can get Indefinite Leave to Remain after 5 years. It means they can stay here forever. And claim welfare, social housing and free healthcare. Millions of recent migrants didn’t come to work. Giving them ILR will cost us hundreds of billions. We mustn’t do it. https://t.co/2prSzm0RRP

I regret to inform you it’s absolutely real, as you can see if you’re willing to click a link to the Bad Place.

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And Elijah taunts the priests of Baal with the suggestion that Baal is asleep (and the implication that the Lord is not).

If I was a better Thomist, I feel one could do quite a good Summa parody to demonstrate that God is indeed woke.

Anyway i depart from the field of pastoral and political theology to note that if you don’t wash up the pan you’ve cooked grits in straight away, the scrapings will bond to the surface of the pan and you will regret your life choices

Well, I mean, if Christ’s Vicar is at it, then…

I don’t think András meant it as an insult. In fact I’m sure he didn’t.

Great question!

Our Lord did not become a man and die and rise again so this country could have a “coherent cultural identity” and I am also not at all convinced that God created human beings in all their diversity in order to sort themselves out into homogenous lumps.

It really is.

The point of Christianity is not to shore up British identity. Or American identity. It just isn’t.

I know you can read Augustine as advocating political quietism and I don’t want to argue for that, but in these days of rising Christian nationalism I find myself thinking about his distinction between the City of God, and how no Christian owes ultimate allegiance to any earthly institution.

why did this take two fucking days though? did the Prime Minister have his notifications switched off? was he stuck in the bath? why, exactly, is this obviously true thing something that apparently needs running past the boss anyway? what is *wrong* with their comms operation?

It’s stomach churning

From what I can tell things aren’t great there either but not as far advanced as here