Richard Bartholomew

@andytwelves @GoodwinMJ I've seen this before - Goodwin often attributes banal and arguable maxims to classical figures or academics (especially Roger Scruton), but he doesn't give the sources and they prove impossible to verify. x.com/Barthsnotes/st…

@andytwelves @GoodwinMJ Of course, not everything is online, but it's odd a quotable line from a famous author can't be found via Google Scholar, Google Books, Amazon's "Search Inside the Book" feature or the Internet Archive, either in their own work or quoted by anyone else. x.com/Barthsnotes/st…

EXC: .@GoodwinMJ’s new book “Suicide of a Nation: Immigration, Islam, Identity” is out now, and I’m only 5 chapters in and have found a huge amount of what appears to be false quotes and basic misinterpretations of data, that appear to be AI hallucinations. Matthew, can you explain the claims you made in the book that I’ve outlined in the below thread?

I gotta say, I’m pretty glad Origen was wrong about this

Freedom of speech can't be that "DEAD" seeing as Dan Wootton's threat to use privacy legislation to sue Byline Times for reporting truthful information about him didn't go anywhere.

@GBNEWS Ceirion Dewar - some "bishop"

Bishop issues public plea to King Charles amid 'erosion of Britain's Christian inheritance' gbnews.com/royal/royal-ne…

Franklin Graham writing to Donald Trump to ask him not to use profanity so much and flattering himself that he had an effect encapsulates the utter feebleness of old-fashioned "taste and decency" evangelicalism in the face of Christofascism. x.com/Franklin_Graha…

Bishop of Willesden on the Iftar : "The public iftar in Trafalgar Square was not an act of cultural imposition, nor a signal of division. It was, rather, a moment of hospitality: an invitation to share in the breaking of the fast during Ramadan, extended by one community to the wider public. It was open, generous and peaceful. It reflected something profoundly British; the instinct to gather, to mark significant moments together, and to make space in our common life for the traditions that shape our neighbours. "To suggest that such an event is somehow threatening risks misunderstanding both the nature of religious expression and the character of our national life. Religious freedom in this country has never meant the privatisation of belief. It has meant the opposite: the right of individuals and communities to live out their faith openly, visibly and without fear. That principle applies as much to Muslims observing Ramadan as it does to Christians celebrating Easter, Jews marking Passover, Hindus celebrating Diwali, or Sikhs observing Vaisakhi." churchofengland.org/media/news-and…

@GBNEWS @GoodwinMJ Oh no, not a "1991 memorandum", everything makes sense now.

63 Candles 🎂 today for the always excellent — DAVID THEWLIS NAKED (1994)

'Islam is not just seeking to be present in British culture, but it is in some cases, seeking to dominate.' @GoodwinMJ claims a mass Muslim public prayer in Trafalgar Square was 'an attempt to undermine our Christian culture and values'.

@darrengrimes x.com/ArchRose90/sta… That's odd, these Tweets are almost identical. And you're both paid up Reform members with large twitter followings. Almost as if you're being told what to say and when to say it..

@JohnCleese Odd that Michael Palin keeps coming back from Muslim-majority countries with his head still attached, how does he manage it? Your 1978 Tunisia trip must have been terrifying.

Dear Sadiq Khan, I think some of the prejudice to do with 'singling out Muslims' is to to with their stated intention to kill 'infidels', expecially the bit about beheading them You see, the other religions don't promise that

Tucker Carlson whitewashed Alex Jones' claims that the parents of murdered children were liars whose dead kids never existed as "naughty opinions". Is there anything he could say or do so vile, cruel or discrediting that it would end his proximity to Repbulican power?

@JohnRentoul "Pragmatic Premier: An Intimate Portrait of Harold Wilson" by Ernest Kay. I've just noticed there's a whole chapter in it called "The Dagger and the Crown" archive.org/details/bwb_KR…

@Barthsnotes Which book is that?

Earlier uses of “he who wields the knife never wears the crown” than Michael Heseltine, 1986, anyone? thelionandunicorn.com/2016/07/02/cal…

@JohnRentoul And in 1967 cited in a book about Harold Wilson as "he who wields the dagger never wins the crown"

@JohnRentoul Attributed here in 1976 by Harold Wilson to Lord Beaverbrook, although it's "The man who wields the dagger..."

@indy_swim Is this from the Egremont World Gurning Championships?

What the fuck is he doing with his face? 😂😂😂

You know, I wasn't keen on David Icke leading an anti-vax conspiracy rally in Trafalgar Square in 2021 - but it didn't occur to me to call for it to be banned, and I don't think anyone would have regarded such a proposition as deserving serious consideration.