@BareReality Hermer-tage after Lord Hermer (he’s very popular with the govt.)
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T J Guile
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T J Guile
@TimGuile
Writer/speaker on English church history. Articles/lectures available: https://t.co/do0fNyvrrx
Oxfordshire 가입일 Temmuz 2011
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Shariaville or Stabbington?
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 NEW: The proposed names the Government is considering calling its new towns - Elizabethtown (after the Queen) - Pankhurst (after suffragette Emmeline) - Attleeton (after ex-PM) - Athelstan (first King of England) - Seacole (after nurse Mary) [@thetimes]
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Tim Stanley is spot on about the hypocrisy. Either prayer in public is fine or it isn’t🤦♂️
Tim Stanley@timothy_stanley
Stella passed the law that banned prayer in a public place!!!!!! NONE OF THIS MAKES SENSE!!!
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@SwisherYard @MichaelPTKelly There have been many archbishops of Canterbury as we all know. Since 1558 there have been no Catholic ones.
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@TimGuile @MichaelPTKelly I know the history. You haven’t explained why you’re interpreting that history differently than most other people. Have there been 105 Archbishops of Canterbury before Dame Mullally, or not? Yes or no? It’s a simple question.
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Oh, dear - history lesson needed here. “The first female Archbishop of Canterbury in the entire 1,400-year history of the job” - Anglicanism has only been a thing for 500 years.
Sky News@SkyNews
First female Archbishop of Canterbury to be enthroned in 'unimaginable' moment Read more 🔗 trib.al/IP36QzX
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Jeremy Corbyn has gone to Cuba to show solidarity with the vile communist regime.
Is he ever focused on domestic issues?
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Ireland does not accept the term British Isles - so why use it?
Ireland is not British and never has been.
Its all-island identity far predates the concept, not to mention it was an Island long before Britain was
A neighbourly gesture would be to agree a term, not to enforce one
We don’t need further division
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Here is a clear and jargon-free (coughs) description of the differences between, Britain, Great Britain, the U.K., Ireland, and the British Isles. 🇬🇧 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇮🇪
Scotland, England, and Wales make up Britain (or Great Britain). This is the larger of the two islands. The United Kingdom (UK) is Britain and a country of the island of Ireland (Northern Ireland) together. Ireland is, as we have said, the other island. But Ireland itself is made up of two countries: The Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
This odd situation is compounded by a good many Northern Ireland residents who insist on calling themselves British. (We’ll leave the politics of that out of this post…)
Both the islands of Ireland and Britain combined are called the British Isles in a geographic sense. But this framing is contested by many Irish residents, who dislike the term British, for exactly the same reason that some Northern Irish folk love it.
Following so far?
Scotland, England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland all have individual national soccer teams. In rugby, however, Ireland play as one team. Confused? It gets worse.
At the Olympics, athletes from Northern Ireland can represent Team Ireland or Team Great Britain (there is no U.K. Olympic team).
Oh, and let us not forget the Isle of Man. Despite being slap-bang in the middle of Northern Ireland and Great Britain, it doesn’t form part of the U.K., but it is in the British Isles.
Happy to have cleared all that up.
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@TimGuile @MichaelPTKelly So? No-one disputes that. Doesn’t change the fact that there were archbishops of Canterbury before and after the reformation
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@BruvverEccles @bishopSarahM Non Angli sed angeli- translation:
not angels but Anglicans
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Some more information from Bede. In AD 634 there were Archbishops of Canterbury and York. Pope Honorius gave instructions that if one was to die (they never retired!) the other should appoint his successor.
Very timely given that @bishopSarahM is in the news.
Eccles@BruvverEccles
More from Bede: the 3 puns of Gregory the Great on encountering boy slaves. The first is well known: Angles but angelic. From Deira, to be rescued from the wrath of Heaven (de ira). Their king: Aelle (sing Alleluia).
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@TheGhostSleepi1 For several hundred years the state disapproved of Catholics who adhered to the faith of their ancestors.
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"Freedom to worship is a fundamental British value"
Why do people keep saying that this kind of tolerance is a British value, particularly for religion? Has nobody read British history? Britain has notoriously long been a place of religious intolerance.
Ed Davey@EdwardJDavey
Imagine seeing British people at prayer and thinking “this is a great chance to stoke fear, hatred and division”. People who do that should have no place in British politics. Freedom to worship is a fundamental British value – one the Conservative Party used to believe in.
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St Alban's, named after Saint Alban
Bury St Edmunds, named after King Edmund
Alice Town, named after Princess Alice
Dudley, named after the Saxon Dudda
Port Talbot, named after the Talbot family
Helen's Bay, named after Lady Dufferin
I can go on
Sam Bowman@s8mb
Crass, unimaginative and, in the case of “Seacole”, desperate. English towns are not named after historical figures - this isn’t America.
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@nonregemesse Only the Catholic or Orthodox Church creates saints. Are you a member of either church by the way?
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The church should canonise Alfred and he should be our patron saint
Widmerpool Appreciation Society@AtticumFloreat
Who should be England's Patron Saint?
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@TimGuile @MichaelPTKelly So what? There was an Archbishop of Canterbury before 1534 and Anglicanism.
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St George was born in Slough, his favourite song was Three Lions, he would only ever drink draught beer, he never missed a QPR game and hated the Welsh flag.
Frances 'Cassandra' Coppola@Frances_Coppola
St George was a Palestinian who never set foot in England.
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@Frances_Coppola One sometimes wonders what some folk ever learned at school?
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Dressing like that he probably gets attacked by lots of dogs.
Oli London@OliLondonTV
UK Green Party activist demonstrates how he uses a wooden spoon to put leaflets through doors because he is scared of being bitten by dogs.
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@MichaelPTKelly Why did you choose to ignore the time before Anglicanism?
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@MichaelPTKelly Sure… but there were Archbishops of Canterbury for the millennium before Anglicanism !
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The Lib Dem manifesto includes a commitment to "enforcing safe access zones around abortion clinics and hospitals" - ie the zones that ban prayer in a public place.
None of this conversation makes sense. It's not about philosophical consistency, it's about culture war.
Ed Davey@EdwardJDavey
Imagine seeing British people at prayer and thinking “this is a great chance to stoke fear, hatred and division”. People who do that should have no place in British politics. Freedom to worship is a fundamental British value – one the Conservative Party used to believe in.
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I wonder if @MichealMartinTD has watched the BBC documentary 'A World Without Down Syndrome'? (And no, in that world it hasn't been cured. It's eugenics).
Government of Ireland@GovIE
Today is World Down Syndrome Day (21/3). The date symbolises the 3 copies of chromosome 21 unique to people with Down Syndrome. The day was created to celebrate people with Down syndrome and to make sure they have the same freedoms and opportunities as everybody else.
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And yet Ed Davey supports Christians being arrested for praying *silently* in public places.
Ed Davey@EdwardJDavey
Imagine seeing British people at prayer and thinking “this is a great chance to stoke fear, hatred and division”. People who do that should have no place in British politics. Freedom to worship is a fundamental British value – one the Conservative Party used to believe in.
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