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Is British politics immune to US-style rightwing Christianity? We’re about to find out | Lamorna Ash Nigel Farage and Tommy Robinson are increasingly espousing Christian ‘values’, and a wealthy US legal group is becoming influential – this could have dire consequences, says author Lamorna Ash

How do we Christians stop the heresy spreading?

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‘We thought the Rwanda scheme was the worst of it’: Enver Solomon on leading – and leaving – the Refugee Council It has been a difficult week for those working with refugees and migrants in the UK, after Labour announced controversial new plans. Sadly, Solomon is used to such turmoil. He discusses hostility, hop...

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Temple Books Temple Books are accessible e-books of 30,000 words analysing key debates in religion and public life. Written by both established and up-and-coming authors, they engage theology with contemporary soc...

Published today ‘Faith in the City‘ 40 Years On: Theological, Historical and Contextual Movements"

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Religion Unmuted: Principled Pluralism Tariq Modood is Professor of Sociology, Politics, and Public Policy at the University of Bristol and recipient of the Boniuk Institute’s 2025 Senior Scholar Award. Modood joined Religion Unmuted to di...

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Re publication of my blog on the corrupt care system. Good news update, Precious begins a new job in a care home today.

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By mimicking Reform to win back support, the Labour government is making a serious mistake. This race to the bottom emboldens Farage, punishes vulnerable people, amplifies racism, and undermines those working to hold communities together.

They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Bill McKibben Trump’s wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent: the evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggression

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Labour’s immigration policy is not the Britain we want | Letters Letters: Readers respond to the government’s recently announced measures for curbing the number of asylum seekers

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The ‘Danish model’ is the darling of centre-left parties like Labour. The problem is, it doesn’t even work in Denmark | Cas Mudde This week’s local elections are the latest reminder that when social democrats move rightwards, they’re making a mistake, says academic and author Cas Mudde

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The Christian converts the US is deporting back to Iran While Donald Trump admonishes Nigeria for persecuting Christians, Christian converts tell the BBC they live in fear of being deported to Iran from the US.

Shameful hypocritical actions from the US government.
BBC News - The Christian converts the US is deporting back to Iran
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Nathan Gill, Reform UK’s former leader in Wales has been jailed for ten-and-a-half years for taking bribes to make pro-Russia statements. What does Nigel Farage think about this?

Reform UK councillor suspended over WhatsApp group featuring extremist posts Tom Pickup confirms he was member of group in which one participant allegedly called for ‘mass Islam genocide’

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On the day tough asylum reforms are launched, UN commissioner pleads: don’t abandon refugees to die - Religion Media Centre UN High Commissioner for Refugees says obligation to help refugees fleeing war or persecution is being challenged as never before, in a debate that has become politicised and manipulated for electoral...

As MPs debated asylum reforms, across the road at Westminster Abbey, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees told an audience that nations must not retreat from their duty to protect people fleeing war and persecution, and must find courage to welcome them

⚠️ Following yesterday’s announcement by the Home Secretary to radically overhaul the UK asylum system, we condemn in the strongest terms the proposals made.

The scale and scope of the measures announced are abhorrent and represent a catastrophic threat to the right to refugee protection.

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New anti-refugee laws put asylum rights under more threat than ever - Asylum Matters New asylum law changes announced by the Home Secretary put refugee rights at risk - here's what we know so far

Stripping possessions from people who've already lost their homes; forcing families apart; refusing refugees stability and denying support to people who are destitute.

Here's what we know so far about today's new raft of terrifying anti-refugee laws 👇

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National Estate Churches Network are hosting 'The Harvest Is Plentiful, But ...' conference on Thu 5 Feb 2026 at St James the Less Church, Pimlico.

day includes input on local resourcing, funding opportunities,workshops and a cooked lunch, all for £20.

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A question to the few remaining Labour supporters: is this refugee-bashing what you voted for? | Owen Jones The government’s callousness has won it respect – from Tommy Robinson and the hard right, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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From Preston City of Sanctuary - our response to the Government's announcement on 17th November 2026 to overhaul refugee protection in the UK.

Labour’s asylum plans are horribly cruel – but they’re also a mix of hype, old policy and unachievable promises | Diane Taylor There is mounting disquiet among Labour MPs, while the vulnerable refugees at the heart of this story are living with a renewed sense of panic, says Diane Taylor, who writes on human rights, racism an...

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BBC News: "the government believe refugees are deliberately bringing their children to avoid deportation"

As opposed to doing what with their children??

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Anglican bishop shaken ‘to the core’ by home secretary’s asylum seeker comments Bishop of Edmonton says people coming to UK are being ‘scapegoated’ for years of policy failures

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Shame on you Shabana Mahmood - Some of the most deeply racist policies ever to come out of a Labour politician's mouth. Yet again mimicking facists rather than modelling progressive democratic socialism - Each new reactionary policy pushes me closer and closer to the Greens.

Multilingualism protects against accelerated aging in cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of 27 European countries - Nature Aging In cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of 86,149 participants across 27 European countries, Amoruso, Hernandez and colleagues identify multilingualism as a protective factor against accelerated aging, using biobehavioral age gaps.

Multilingualism protects against accelerated aging in cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of 27 European countries https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-025-01000-2 via @waeiski #multilingualism

This statement not acceptable and I suspect not sustainable. Large majority of public support principle of asylum, support letting people stay permanently. Majority for that among Labour and other progressive parties’ voters is overwhelming. The Reform voters this is aimed at will never vote Labour

Church Leaders Reflect on 40 Years Since Faith in the City | The Archbishop of York NEWS - Church leaders, clergy, and community representatives gathered in Manchester Cathedral today to mark the 40th anniversary of Faith in the City.

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How ‘campus climate’ affects students’ attitudes to people of different religions Visible diversity and critical conversations are important.

Latest from Kristin Aune, Matt Mayhew & myself on how the cultural climate on university campuses shapes interfaith relations. theconversation.com/how-campus-c... In @uk.theconversation.com

No but I keep getting a lot of such fake news propaganda, maybe because I interact on the basis of "know thine enemy".

I have reported a number of pages and accounts as fake accounts and purveyors of race hatred. Today had good news that 3 such had been taken down by FB

Sports clubs to supermarkets: RE beyond the classroom Hannah Rich unpacks the key themes in her new report ‘Beyond the Classroom in her latest blog. 13/11/2025

'Seeing religious education as alive and embodied, beyond textbooks and at every stage of life, is central to the greater unity we need.' - my blog on our new @theosthinktank.bsky.social @culhamstgabriel.bsky.social report on informal RE in the UK.