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@graemearcher Yes, we just walk away (‘scatter’) at the end of service. No ceremony, nothing. It is very moving.

It's Good Friday today, which is about the only day of the year (Easter Sunday is the other) when I feel almost actually religious. The thought of the betrayal in the garden and being dragged away and tortured by the soldiers, and Pilote's exasperation and dismissal, and the rabble turning out for the criminal instead of Jesus, and the lonely death. I'm listening to Bach's Matthew Passion just now. I know we won't go to church - I wish I could make myself - apparently the Anglican service today just sort of dies away in despair; like the first disciples the idea is the pointlessness of life without God I imagine. Whether we have the psychological need for forgiveness, redemption and renewal and thus invented the Easter story, or whether the story is true and that's why it rings such a loud bell in our consciousness (I should say "my" not "our" because it's a very, very strong need for me), I sort of think (after decades wrestling with the thought) it doesn't matter. Life is hard, we will die, and lose all that we love. But yet the sun still rises and yet there could still be hope for us all. Forgive the rambling.

Head to Trafalgar Square today to see an epic religious play performed in front of thousands 👀 londonist.com/london/theatre…

@ReynoldsCh35130 @MatthewNouriel @9aCedarCourt But you’re not ‘removing it’. Bombs don’t remove regimes. Bombs are cowardly.

@MatthewNouriel @9aCedarCourt Thank God for Trump and Israel for doing something about this evil regime The gullible idiot's in the world don't understand that they are removing a regime that is a threat to all humanity Once gone the people of Iran will be free

Today the regime in Iran executed Amirhossein Hatami— he was just 18 years old. To every privileged Westerner chanting “hands off Iran” while waving the flag of his executioners: this is what you represent—dead Iranians.

@MatthewNouriel @Gillian_Philip Of course we don’t support the Iranian regime!!! But how is your approach ending it?

This US-Israeli attack on peaceful civilian healthcare centres is doing the opposite of the declared original aim of this war: to enable the Iranians to rise up against the Revolutionary Guards. Instead it is rallying every patriotic Iranian to defend their homeland against Trump & Netanyahu’s murderous barbarism

@ThePujaTeli @MichaelRosenYes @ambientmike @Mr_Andrew_Fox Dustbin is American. We say rubbish bin or wpb 👇🏻

@MichaelRosenYes @ambientmike @Mr_Andrew_Fox We say dustbin here. We’re not Americans

Ben Jamal, head of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, and Chris Nineham of the Stop the War Coalition both now convicted criminals. Let us remember, however, that the conditions they breached were imposed to stop their antisemitic hate march from routing past a synagogue on a Saturday. Their sentence? Conditional discharge. An absolute joke. This government still does not take antisemitism seriously.

@prayerbook_soc Thank you.

@Bartlebeans It’s come down to us from the Latin “litania”, and from the Ancient Greek λιτανεία - a form of prayer or entreaty. It has basically come to mean a series of prayers recited back and forth between a leader and the congregation

The Litany is appointed to be said on Fridays throughout the year. On Good Friday in particular the Litany offers us words with which to pray when we might feel we have none of our own. “By thine Agony and bloody Sweat; by thy Cross and Passion… Good Lord, deliver us”. Amen.

@BlackChallk No such stop as Norbridge. Or Mayfield.

They humbled him really quick

@_HenryBolton @Lostlain1 You’re right. It’s KGBNews sh1tstirring and not even trying to hide it.

I don’t know the reason for this decision, but I very much hope it’s not what I can’t help suspecting and many people think.

Just popping out for supper with the lads!

@DeeTweets00 @BarryPierce ‘Quarter’ 🤦‍♀️

@BarryPierce Law firms, Royal Courts of Justice, Inns of Court, London Silver Vaults, Londons Jewellery Quarter....

when people get off the tube at Chancery Lane, I always wonder... where ARE you going?

@BarryPierce Temple Church templechurch.com

@VinodKadkol @newstart_2024

@newstart_2024 Rory is right. But that is how "disorder" evolves. We say "entropy" for that. We have to accept it and things keep moving. For me all modern developments look "fossils" of old "healthy" things.

Rory Sutherland made a quietly devastating observation about one of the biggest societal shifts of the last 50 years. He said the move to the double-income household started as an option but quickly became an obligation. The big winners? Governments (twice as many people to tax) and property owners (now two salaries were needed to buy a house). The big loser? The family itself, which lost roughly 35 hours of discretionary leisure time per week — with no real increase in living standards, because the extra money was largely soaked up by higher house prices and taxes. It’s a classic example of how something that begins as liberation can quietly turn into a new form of constraint. Longitudinal studies on happiness and time use (including data from the American Time Use Survey and OECD reports) show that the sharp rise in dual-earner households correlated with stagnant or declining leisure time for families, while subjective well-being metrics for parents have not risen in line with the additional income — supporting the idea that much of the gain was captured by housing costs and taxation rather than improved quality of life. It’s a reminder to look carefully at changes that society presents as inevitable progress. What do you think — has the double-income model delivered more freedom or more pressure for most families?

It is crazy how few people know this: Russia now occupies less Ukrainian land than it did one month into the full-scale invasion four years ago

@ITVNewsPolitics Such a dangerous woman.

Badenoch said she is 'concerned' about Starmer's plans to negotiate a closer EU partnership 'I'm very concerned that the man who gave away the Chagos Islands and is paying £35 billion for the privilege wants to start more negotiations' 'Every time he negotiates, Britain loses'

@EduardHabsburg Why would the 104yo dead body of your relative be able to bring about world peace? Show your working.

Instead of engaging in tasteless April Fool's pranks, live April 1st "the Habsburg way", and pray for the intercession of Blessed Karl, who died OTD in Madeira, in 1922. Ask him most of all for peace.

@bo66ie29 No!

@Dvdubbz @snowiecone Who is that?

@snowiecone The only Canadian who matters.

gun to your head name a canadian

@snowiecone Robertson Davies