Edward Joyner

YouTube video by Southwark Cathedral The Dean's Sermon

After David Monteith, Dean of Canterbury, writes about what the decisions of the House of Bishops over LLF means as a gay man, another dean, Mark Oakley of Southwark, adds his own voice of protest and hope. Standing ovation! Like & share, please. youtu.be/LLM_J8YH8Fk?...

/2 The Roberts Court 6-3 majority is best understood not as a genuine or legitimate independent adjudicatory body but as a ceremonial adjunct to the Trump government, like a First Lady or a second-born prince in a constitutional monarchy.

tbf, the English sparkling wine is absolutely excellent ...but yes, climate change 😔

NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.

This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.

The absolute bloody vandalism of austerity in one chart. Good analysis of the overall picture here.

Hiya Marie, do you mind if I share this with some London friends?

*Properly* closing down Russian civil aviation and airspace strikes me as entirely justified while Ukraine is unable to use its own.

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

What an absolute treasure Diane Keaton was. Her wit never tired, nor did her style.

“Parliament had turned over its constitutional authority to Hitler and thereby committed suicide, though its body lingered on in an embalmed state.”

Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (p. 331)

This strikes me as a pretty major Brexit shift from Starmer.

Perhaps the beginning of 'Brexit is sh1t and has caused real economic damage'.

Polanski expertly dismantling the "rich people will move if we tax them" narrative, while Denham nimbly demonstrates how very patriotic such people are.

All these people really want is to pay no taxes and be treated with floor scraping deference. Everything else is just bullshit in pursuit of that goal.

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

Another LNER journey just absolutely packed with endlessly repetitive announcements

I think much of the English right built their identity on Brexit, which they never believed in their wildest dreams would happen, but when they got it they realised it solved absolutely nothing, left them bereft of ideas and office, and now they’re thinking, “ah, f—k it, let’s try revolution.”

Australia Admits All Those Animals Made Up

Australia Admits All Those Animals Made Up theonion.com/austral...

Oh my… Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell just corrected Trump’s math on national television, live, and called out his disinformation.

should a brown man be mayor? We asked a eugenicist

It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins

"When it comes to .. unidentified foraged mushrooms, I want to be free to form a relationship with a local wood spirit, look him in the eyes, finger his mulch, and then decide if I feel safe to eat the toadstools from his glade."

If you get a chance to pop over to South Australia, there are some wonderful places to eat at wineries... recently visited The Lane in Adelaide Hills which was excellent

Can we just spare a thought, too, for the official end of News Corp as a political force. No one outside an aging political class pays any attention to them.

Not the point, but the music at Francis's funeral is really awful

Choral Evensong - Easter: A Seasonal Journey. Southwell Minster - BBC Sounds Live from Southwell Minster in Holy Week.

We sang evensong live from @southwellminster.bsky.social on BBC radio 3, have a listen www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

This is high art

It’s not just that they fundamentally misunderstand basic economics, but that they also want to live a fantasy where they make $200k working at a toaster-making factory while their stay-at-home wife makes dinner for them in the suburbs and cares for their 4 children.

We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again