#WorldIndoorChamps well done Dina in the Indoor 60m. Don’t be too hard on yourself 7/1000 sec from gold doesn’t seem a lot to me! 👏🏻
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Dave Challis
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Dave Challis
@ChallisDave
Husband, granddad to 9, City fan, loved by God. Author of “Discipling Like Ducks: on being church, being human, and being a light.”
Stockport, England Katılım Haziran 2012
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Remember this article from Jenni Murray in 2017. Totally reasonable, nothing extreme, just saying men can’t be women.
Then there was all the protests, calls to cancel talks, The BBC warned her, restricted her on air, and by 2020 she left Woman’s Hour.
But she never backed down, even as the pushback continued for years. This is how speaking honestly costs you in public life. But she was forever right.
Rest in peace, brave and courageous Jenni Murray.
thetimes.com/article/490f2f…
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@DeathlyAcorn @JChimirie66677 @EdwardJDavey Yes the theological issue wanes a bit when you understand they all claim exclusivity. It’s a cultural issue, politicians have always tried to avoid a culture war but that is what we have. Easier to send immigrants back than have a robust, enforceable integration strategy.
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@JChimirie66677 @EdwardJDavey Every Abraham religion claims themselves to be the true faith above others. Have you even read the ten commandments? Next week Christians will be having an event in trafalgar square proclaiming Jesus to be the son of God but you won't find anyone moaning about it
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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.
Nick Timothy MP@NJ_Timothy
Too many are too polite to say this. But mass ritual prayer in public places is an act of domination. The adhan - which declares there is no god but allah and Muhammad is his messenger - is, when called in a public place, a declaration of domination. Perform these rituals in mosques if you wish. But they are not welcome in our public places and shared institutions. And given their explicit repudiation of Christianity they certainly do not belong in our churches and cathedrals. I am not suggesting everybody at Trafalgar Square last night is an Islamist. But the domination of public places is straight from the Islamist playbook. Trafalgar Square belongs to all of us. It is a national memorial to our independence and our salvation. Last night was not like a televised football match or a St Patrick’s Day celebration. It was an act of domination and therefore division. It shouldn’t happen again.
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The HIGHEST EVER BREAK 🤯
A 153 by... you guessed it... @ronnieo147 👏
👇 Watch full break 👇 #WorldOpen
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@AllexmarieHoll1 @FawkesHandles @Debcoolnan @ArchbishopSarah No change to the date of legal termination is proposed 🤷🏻
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Imagine being a Christian woman, joining the Church to promote Gods word
Rising to the position of Archbishop of Canterbury. Then, as a vote is being taken in the House of Lords to allow abortion to birth. You attend a 'walk' instead, so you can swerve responsibility
Abhorrent
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@Keir_Starmer Not in the national interest to have the Strait of Hormuz blocked
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I will always make decisions in the national interest. That’s why we did not join the offensive action against Iran.
Reform and the Tories would’ve rushed us into war without a plan to get us out.
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@PippaCrerar Odds on most of that £53m being unspent by Christmas. Postmasters still waiting, Covid jab injured offered minimal amounts and WASPI women still waiting for Labour to come good on its manifesto promises.
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Keir Starmer announces that £53m will go to poorest households using heating oil for help with bills, after costs surged since outbreak of Iran conflict.
PM adds that suppliers engaged in price gouging will face legal action - and future market regulation.
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Keir Starmer says that while UK will take "necessary action" to defend UK and allies "we will not be drawn into the wider war".
Donald Trump's call for allies to send ships to Strait of Hormuz to protect commercial shipping vessels & unblock global oil supplies has been met with a muted response so far.
"I want to see an end to this war as quickly as possible, because the longer it goes on, the more dangerous the situation becomes, and the worse it is for the cost of living back here at home," PM says.
Starmer adds that UK is working with European allies on a "viable collective plan" to restore navigation as quickly as possible, easing economic impacts.
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Happy Mother's Day, from all of us at the Labour Party ❤️
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@MatthewPFirth @ClareCraigPath Well, the vote isn’t actually to change termination dates at all, just decriminalising an old law. It will still be against the law to abort in the last weeks of pregnancy. You might want to do do a bit more homework.
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Every bishop with a seat in the House of Lords is morally obliged to be personally present there on Wednesday to vote against abortion up to birth, save for illness or bereavement etc.
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@afneil @KemiBadenoch Most of the oil through the Strait of Hormuz goes East, not West, so maybe China and Japan should be sending warships?
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He wants to deploy UK forces we don’t have to keep oil and gas flowing 3,000 miles away but forbids any new investment in our sector of the North Sea. Bonkers.
BBC Politics@BBCPolitics
“It is very important that we get the Strait of Hormuz reopened” Energy Secretary Ed Miliband says “it is something we’re looking at” when #BBCLauraK asks whether the UK might send ships and drones to the Persian Gulf bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
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@Free_ByTheSea @stone3Clare Just because you @Free_ByTheSea keep reposting this in replies doesn’t make it any more correct
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75% of abortions now happen away from a clinic and a woman simply phones up to ask for pills.
If she says she's under the legal limit, they send them to her in the post. They have no way of knowing otherwise.
This new law would mean women can administer their own abortions up to birth for any reason - easy to do if you can just phone up and get abortion pills by claiming to be 8 weeks pregnant when you're actually 38 weeks!
This is dangerous to women- especially those vulnerable to coercion.
This is just a stepping stone to in clinic abortions to birth. I’ll explain how:
First they decriminalise the woman at home for taking a pill, then, when a few fatalities happen as late abortions with pills away from a clinical setting is very dangerous, there’ll be a lobby for in-clinic full-term abortion to be permitted.
It's their playbook.
A slippery slope we must down descend down.
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If Sarah Mullally doesn’t vote against abortion up to birth, how can she call herself a Christian, let alone an archbishop?
Next week we watch the Church of England.
Dr. Calum Miller@DrCalumMiller
The first real test of Sarah Mullally's appointment as Archbishop of Canterbury Will be the vote on abortion UP TO BIRTH in the UK House of Lords this coming Wednesday If she or other bishops fail to turn up, the Church of England will have clearly lost its entire moral compass
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@JoStevensLabour @DeborahMeaden @Ed_Miliband You know it’s just moving the payment we make from energy bills to taxation. Why do you keep repeating this nonsense?
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Watch this. @Ed_Miliband is spot on. What we came into government to do; bring down energy bills, make the UK energy independent and create tens of thousands of jobs through investing in renewable energy infrastructure and supply chains was right and it’s even more important now
The Labour Party@UKLabour
The Labour Government is taking £150 off the cost of your energy bills. And we're taking the action needed to bring down bills for good by investing in homegrown energy so we don't remain at the mercy of international markets.
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@piersmorgan Because no hedgehog is going to be accused of being politically incorrect later in life.
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Sorry? We’re going to replace our greatest ever Briton, the man who saved us from the Nazis, with a bloody hedgehog? This is ridiculous.
Bloomberg@business
Winston Churchill will soon disappear from UK banknotes, as the cigar-toting, wartime leader makes way for creatures like hedgehogs and badgers. After a public consultation, the next generation of pound notes will feature native British wildlife, according to the Bank of England. Read more: bloom.bg/4lsPoZ2 📷: Joe Giddens/AFP
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The perpetual question is how does an obviously deceitful, megalomaniacal and criminal undertaking succeed in persuading a significant part of the population that is working in their interests? ⁉️
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We have been made aware of a distressing image doing the rounds today, suggesting Tottenham have beaten us 3-1.
This has clearly been photoshopped, and we will be taking this up with the relevant authorities.
Even we'd beat Spurs...
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The IPCC says snowfall should become less frequent in a warming world.
Yet when Japan was buried by record snow in January 2026, the explanation changed. Researchers claimed global warming increased the snowfall.
The storm itself was straightforward.
A prolonged surge of Arctic air crossed the Sea of Japan, producing intense snowbands.
Sapporo transport shut down.
Aomori set depth records.
Communities across northern Honshu were buried.
Instead of simply pointing to the cold-air outbreak though, researchers at Japan's Meteorological Institute instead ran "climate model simulations". The models concluded warming increased snowfall by about 7%.
So the theory now reads: global warming reduces snow, except when it increases snow. Under this framework, every possible outcome appears to confirm the same conclusion.
"A theory that explains everything explains nothing."
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@AndyMorri5on Wishing you all the best and prayers for your recovery Andy 🙏🏻
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Will touch base every couple of weeks, long road ahead.
👊🙏👊
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@afneil Why, it's like the Covid Con dancers never went away. Should we bang pans for them?
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The sheer stupidity of the British ruling class at a time of crisis. They make the French aristocracy in 1789 look responsible!!
Kate Ferguson@kateferguson4
Strictly come dancing practice in parliament today! Lindsay Hoyle and Angela Rippon lead the class
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