Mark Bailey

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Mark Bailey

@MarkCFDBailey

Catholic. Depressed since 1536. Seething since 1688. But.....Dum spiro spero. Politics? Disraeli advised by Ernest Bevin. A Reactionary. Damn the Whigs.

London, for its sins. Joined Şubat 2022

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Mark Bailey@MarkCFDBailey·17 Mar

"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected." G.K. Chesterton

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Mark Bailey@MarkCFDBailey·1h

@amlivemon That picture isn’t even good AI. Bad Photoshop.

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Mark Bailey@MarkCFDBailey·1h

@PatPorter76 @93vintagejones @TheCriticMag He was a saint for the way his name has been traduced, versus what he actually did. Without him WWII would not have gone well for us.

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Patrick Porter@PatPorter76·12h

My piece in @TheCriticMag. If you want to slur today's leaders by slurring Neville Chamberlain, do your homework first. Britain's predicament in the late 1930's was hard, the choices fraught. International relations is not a Boys Own storybook. thecritic.co.uk/questions-for-…

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Mark Bailey@MarkCFDBailey·5h

@RoryStewartUK @JohnCleese Interesting that you think Christianity (why the scare quotes around "culture"?) is based on the Old Testament and that the New has nothing to say..

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Rory Stewart@RoryStewartUK·20h

.@JohnCleese - What would Christian “culture” look like if you represented it with 1 Sam 15:3 Josh 6:21 Deut 7:1 Deut 20:16–18 Ex 17 - Deut 25 Psalm 137:9 etc? How about actually meeting some Muslims and listening to them instead of demonising a religion you know very little about with selective quotations…

John Cleese@JohnCleese

This is complete nonsense To criticise a culture whose holy book advocates the killing of all the people they disagree with...is not racist It's culturalist And this criticism seems wholly justifiable to me Oh ! There's the door bell. Must be the police...

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Mark Bailey@MarkCFDBailey·1d

@YellFeat @yuanyi_z No one can stop a person committing suicide, if they are intent upon it.. They are against you getting some else to kill you.

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The Feather@YellFeat·1d

@yuanyi_z Keeping alive someone who wants to die is just as immoral as killing someone who wants to live. Their reasons for wanting to die are none of your business. Maybe it's because they're in pain, maybe it's just ennui, maybe it's to make an artistic statement. It's their decision.

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Yuan Yi Zhu@yuanyi_z·2d

In 2021, Canada expanded MAiD to include those whose deaths aren't foreseeable. But Hanania has never seen an anti-human cause he is not willing to front.

Richard Hanania@RichardHanania

"In 2021, the average age of a MAID recipient was 76.3 years. Almost two-thirds had cancer, 19% had cardiovascular conditions, 12% had chronic respiratory conditions, 12% had neurological conditions, and 8% had organ failure." richardhanania.com/p/canadian-eut…

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Mark Bailey@MarkCFDBailey·2d

@AaronBastani @arisroussinos Eat the pheasant* and grouse. * pheasant aren’t on moors. Grouse already live with sheep.

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Aaron Bastani@AaronBastani·2d

Expropriate grouse and pheasant moors. Ecological deadzones. Rewild half of them, and give the other half over to sheep and lamb farming, administered by minister @arisroussinos No meat imports needed! 🐑

Slazac (2005-2026 🕊️🪦)@TrueSlazac

The one thing uniting stupid people both on the left and on the right is their irrational hatred of international trade

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Mark Bailey@MarkCFDBailey·2d

@whitesundesert London. Used to have to go to Paris for a day and a night every two weeks. Could never get over the pervading stink of piss and the impossibility of walking side-by-side on the pavement. Well lit though.

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Tim Newman@whitesundesert·3d

Paris 100 times out of 100

France Safety Travel@francesafetytra

Would you rather live in Paris or London?

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Mark Bailey@MarkCFDBailey·2d

@Martin_ASFL @BiancoDavinci But that's how reality works.

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Martin van Staden@Martin_ASFL·3d

@BiancoDavinci Not necessarily. Some people do not excel at memorisation. Simple. To have them succeed or fail by that measure alone has long been one of academia's most silly features.

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DaVinci@BiancoDavinci·3d

Confiscated pens containing cheat notes intricately carved by a student at the University of Malaga Spain.

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Mark Bailey@MarkCFDBailey·2d

@CTrefugees @hf_222222 It is written, just not in one document.

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CTrefugees@CTrefugees·3d

@hf_222222 I don't think the UK should count since it's non written.

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Scott Smith@hf_222222·4d

Its actually quite funny how many of the longest lived constitutions are just English speaking people. 1901 shouldn't get you in this list, but modern history being what it is, it does!

Teortaxes▶️ (DeepSeek 推特🐋铁粉 2023 – ∞)@teortaxesTex

Shocking that he preferred Australians and New Zealanders to Americans, on the grounds of Wisdom from Accumulated Knowledge. Kiwis, really? I guess he just overrated the institutional inertia of the British Empire.

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Mark Bailey@MarkCFDBailey·2d

@PastorDavidUde @hf_222222 Since when was scripture "clear"?

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David Ude@PastorDavidUde·2d

@hf_222222 Ok fair enough then but I really have no interest in speculative leaps. Clear scripture is plenty enough for me

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Scott Smith@hf_222222·2d

If you entered into the Temple, into the Holy of Holies where the presence of God once dwelled, would you drop your pants? No? Well now you know why Joseph, or indeed any pious Second Temple Jewish man, would rather die than violate Mary's sanctity.

Jennifer Greenberg 🕊️@JennMGreenberg

I never understood the purpose of this doctrine. Obviously Mary was a virgin when she had Jesus, but why must she remain perpetually so? Especially when the Bible talks about Jesus’s brothers. She was married to Joseph and sex within marriage is good, not sinful.

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Mark Bailey@MarkCFDBailey·2d

@escapefrommelos Looser talk.

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Melian Refugee@escapefrommelos·3d

I don’t particularly like Clavicular but he’s 100% right. watching sportsball and getting drunk with your “friends” is one of the most harmful ways of spending you time “the best choose one thing above all: immortal glory. the many care only to glut themselves like cattle”

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Mark Bailey@MarkCFDBailey·2d

@PaulEmbery @MrTCHarris I’ll give you Callaghan and Healey. Jenkins? Libertine. Benn? Delusional child. Foot? Detached ideologue. Crosland? Angry, clever adolescent.

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Paul Embery@PaulEmbery·2d

The 1976 Labour leadership election was contested by Callaghan, Foot, Jenkins, Healey, Benn and Crosland - every one of them a political titan. Compare this line-up with what we have today, not just within Labour but across the entire political spectrum. How we have fallen.

Lee David Evans@LeeDavidEvansUK

🚨 NEW PODCAST: Was this the most talented Labour leadership election ever? In the second part of our miniseries on the 1976 transition of power, @richardmarcj and I discuss the remarkable field of candidates who sought the lease of Number 10 after Harold Wilson. 1/2

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Mark Bailey@MarkCFDBailey·2d

@drhingram Needs to sort his trousers out. 2” short.

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Dr Helen Ingram@drhingram·2d

And the bartender says “why the long face?”

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Mark Bailey@MarkCFDBailey·3d

@michaelbd Start the Aubrey -Maturin’s. Patrick O’Brian. Another world.

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Michael Brendan Dougherty@michaelbd·3d

Beautiful Palm Sunday liturgy. Spring baseball on the TV with the dog resting at my feet. Just need a good book.

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Mark Bailey@MarkCFDBailey·3d

@CptHastings1916 The Upper West Side and Upper East Side united at last. Such different people.

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NPRG@CptHastings1916·3d

Great example of this. The "normal mainstream opinion" here is agreement between a Hollywood actor and a writer for the New Yorker. The actual mainstream opinion on JK Rowling can be imperfectly but reasonably gauged by how many kids wear HP costumes for World Book Day.

Sonny Bunch@SonnyBunch

No phenomenon has ever been more online-only than the idea that people, broadly, are boycotting/tired of Harry Potter/JK Rowling.

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Mark Bailey@MarkCFDBailey·3d

@WorldByWolf Silly boy.

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Wolf 🐺@WorldByWolf·4d

This is what the Israel lobby does. The Greens are surging in the polls and the lobby wants one of their lackey’s Badenoch, Farage, or Starmer inside No.10 and certainly not Polanski. The lobby’s worst nightmare is a Jewish PM who isn’t a Zionist. So they have to destroy him.

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Mark Bailey@MarkCFDBailey·4d

@mfjlewis @MrHistory92 @danielmgmoylan All reasons are pretty “deliberate”. It don’t signify. Your reasons for slandering all those who attend TLM’s are deliberately political and are entirely made up from your vexious crusade against an imaginary foe.

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Mike Lewis@mfjlewis·4d

@MarkCFDBailey @MrHistory92 @danielmgmoylan "The same could be said." I suppose you could say that about particular subgroups among Catholics who attend the normative Mass. Because it is the default liturgy, it can't be described as an ideological movement. But those who go to the TLM do so for deliberate reasons.

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Mike Lewis@mfjlewis·5d

Parolin is right. We do all share "this assessment that the Pope gives." We all want the division over liturgy to end and for the legitimate needs of the faithful to be met. The problem is, Catholics disagree on the causes of the conflict and what the "legitimate needs" are.

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Mark Bailey@MarkCFDBailey·4d

@mfjlewis @MrHistory92 @danielmgmoylan The same could be said about NO priests and attenders. As to your assumptions about me, they are both impertinent and hysterical. I wonder that the vituperation of your response is not caused by an innate understanding of the scant nature of your argument.

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Mark Bailey@MarkCFDBailey·4d

@mfjlewis @MrHistory92 @danielmgmoylan That is a deranged, mendacious andpolitically motivated take. I’m a NO attender, but like knowing that the EF is available and keeping the church honest.

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Mark Bailey@MarkCFDBailey·5d

@mattswaim On all Fridays, I hope. The US church really needs to catch up with England. EVERY FRIDAY.

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