WELL THEN IT'S NOT MEANINGFUL IS IT, NICK www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

"Let's talk clean eating!"

Evangelical 'King's Army' group disrupts traffic in historic LGBTQ+ London district A right-wing, evangelical group calling itself the King's Army blocked traffic on Old Compton Street in Soho while chanting anti-LGBTQ+ slogans.

Really not good at all that the Christian Right feels emboldened enough to parade in Soho in paramilitary uniforms. www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/10/k...

Exactly. Cathedrals have long had art installations. Sometimes they resonate with people, sometimes they don't. That's really all there is to it.

We need so, so, much more of this, in the UK as well as America, and so many other places. We need politicians prepared to actually step up and genuinely, wholeheartedly, support trans and non-binary individuals.

Have no strong views on the Canterbury cathedral graffiti, so I should probably hand my Church of England membership card in.

Exodus 8:2
"If you refuse to let them go, I will send a plague of frogs on your whole country."

Man convicted of 38 paedophile offences revealed as police informer who spied on UK activists Trial of Nick Gratwick, 68, who schemed to rape children as young as six, exposes previous role among green protesters

One for the #SpyCops inquiry followers.
And if you're not following, you really should be!
Man convicted of 38 paedophile offences revealed as police informer who spied on UK activists www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The funeral outfit is bought, and in true old lady fashion I am treating myself to lunch in M&S while I try to come to terms with the fact that I'm really not the size or shape I thought I was. 😭

Goodness me, I strongly dislike clothes shopping.

Regardless of what one thinks of the Greens and Zack Polanski, there is something refreshing and much needed about seeing a politician name far-right discourse as it is

No more euphemising, no more "populism", "legitimate concerns" etc - accurate & damning depictions instead as needed

Church of England take note.

Yes I have them on prescription, and they have absolutely changed my life in terms of reducing pain and making me more able to function.
But they don't remove the problem altogether, sadly.

Thank you!

Now onto the third day of this migraine.
Safe to say it's not doing a huge amount for my positive outlook.
Ow.

Younger son managed to drop a fork on my foot pointy side down last night (yes it really hurt) and now I look like I've been attacked by the world's smallest vampire.

Screenshot of a headline from the Independent which says Gut-health guru Tim Spector hits back at Joe Wicks' new documentary and says he is "fear-mongering". Comment: What Joe Wicks gets wrong about protein bars and UPFs. Underneath the headline is a person in gym gear lifting weights.

Initial critic of UPF who then went on to develop fancy UPF to be sold in M&S offers criticism of fellow critic of UPF*.
Meanwhile, those of us interested in actual evidence-based advice allow ourselves a cup of tea and a biscuit.
*Tbf, Wicks *is* scare-mongering.

Even given all that Biggar writes about the universality of slavery and the complicity of Africans, three things might be said. First, Britain played a key part and, however others may want to respond to their own history, it is morally responsible to face up to our own heritage. Second, as a Tory, he might have made more of Burke’s view that society is a partnership not just between the living, but between the living, the dead, and those still to be born. Third, guilt is not the only spur to action. There are the obligations that we owe one another irrespective of any personal responsibility for atrocities in the past.

God bless The Church Times for their ongoing insistence on responding moderately but forcefully to the Reverend Canon Nigel Biggar’s nonsense. www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

i genuinely think we underestimate the level of conflict that may arise between the CoE and Reform UK + Jenrick wing of the Tories

The world is going to hell in the proverbial, but I am cheered that I've just noticed that Shine Jesus Shine and Stacey's Mom are basically the same song* and you can play the verse of one into the chorus of the other.
It's the little things.
*I mean, after a fashion.

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

Oh now that *is* exciting!

Definitely recommend a listen if you're at all left-leaning politically, and/or a Christian. It's really accessible, covers a wide range of topics and is occasionally wonderfully silly.
Give it a listen. Your ears, and your soul, will thank you.

Sometime back in lockdown, I discovered the @themagnificast.bsky.social podcast. It had episodes going aaaallll the way back to 2017, so back I went to the beginning too.
I've listened to a few episodes a week and as of today, I've caught up! 😱
Which is lovely and has left me feeling a bit bereft.

WOW. Posting also to the 🧪 feed

I have an interest in the weirder fringes of Christianity but I'd never heard of these guys so I looked them up, and......bloody hell.
(I do slightly want to go and shout "Jesus thinks you're silly" at them though.)

Thinking of my mom, who got involved as a lay woman in the campaign for women's ordination. She lived to see women ordained priests. She'd be tickled by a woman as the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Solidarity with the Jewish community, especially in Manchester. The murder of two people at worship on the holiest day of the Jewish year is beyond reprehensible.