Derek La Casta

The amazing idiocy of the latest #hs2 review is that Oakervee review told us reducing the speed/spec wouldnt save that much money……now we are being told it will…..6 years later….after the money has been spent!

@HS2theTruth Who could possibly have foreseen this? 😔

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… Tens of £biilions have been wasted & land desecrated because a pointless speed was considered from the outset and no-one considered the full implications.

@Outoftweet123 😂

@DerekLaCasta Point taken but we are talking hardline for Labour…..😀

It sounds unlikely but if Ange takes over I can see Mahmood defecting to Reform! She understands that immigration needs to be dealt with & if Labour cant/wont then they are finished as a party! Mahmood is a smart cookie and Farage will know the shocks waves this will send!

@Outoftweet123 So hardline she refuses to put a visa ban on Pakistan, from which the biggest abuse of the visa system is coming.

@DerekLaCasta Im not so sure. She certainly seemed pro immigration in her early days but seems to have developed into a hardliner. Id like to see this play out. I hope Starmer does sack her or she resigned!

Hope not Hate claim to be “working tirelessly to expose and oppose far-right extremism”. But yesterday, their former Political Organiser Liron Velleman escaped jail time after ADMITTING child sex offences. My full investigation into Hope not Hate, published here tomorrow.

There’s clearly a growing concern & debate about the influence of political Islam and sectarian politics. There’s also a growing desire for a renewal of British Christian identity. Bishops should engage positively with the debate, and not use terms like ‘racist’ and ‘bigot’.

@zhigangsuo Even the general stress-energy tensor in GR is part of a theory that's already failing observationally at galactic scales. Better to derive inertia and momentum conservation from quantised horizons directly, avoiding the GR baggage entirely.

A book printed on paper is nice. The reader can argue with the author. Lately I have added dates of entries. This page of Rindler has long troubled me. Today I see that energy-momentum-stress tensor can be introduced by the conservation of 4-momentum, without electrodynamics.

He isn’t really dead…..it’s a cover story so the Iranians don’t know he is coming! RIP Chuck.

An 18-year-old Japanese classical guitarist, Haruna Miyagawa, performs Niccolò Paganini’s Caprice No. 24, a technically demanding violin piece arranged for guitar, highlighting its sequence of variations and arpeggios in a contemporary concert hall setting.

@GRWill68628 Good luck!

I've sent my horror novel off to a few places. It's a huge long shot, of course, and there are far better writers than I who don't get picked up. But one can dream, and I do believe that I've written a good book that many would enjoy.

@HolyoakeJ14576 @MatthewStadlen @danny__kruger 👌

@MatthewStadlen @danny__kruger The bigot may just be you.

Nick Timothy and Nigel Farage are right, and Sadiq Khan and Keir Starmer are wrong. Small groups of people, of whatever religion, praying in public places is fine. And as a Christian country we should allow a special privilege for churches to lead services in our national spaces, like the Palm Sunday celebration that happens in Trafalgar Square. What we don't want is mass ritual observances intended to claim the civic realm for another religion, or assert the domination of another culture over our own Christian traditions. What happens in our national spaces is not neutral. People use Trafalgar Square, for celebrations and demonstrations, to make a point about the kind of country they want us to be. The Palm Sunday pageant reminds us of who we are - not as individuals (many or most of us don't identify as Christians at all) but as a national community, with the roots of our institutions in the ground of the Bible and our most solemn communal moments, from coronations to funerals, mediated through the liturgies of the Church. A mass Adhan held there, or in any town square, is making a different point: that Britain is not a Christian country, and that - inshallah - one day it shall be Muslim. This is unacceptable to the British public and indeed incompatible with our constitution. As ever with these debates, the issue is partly one of kind and partly one of degree. There is an issue with Islam itself as a religion which in most interpretations does not admit of pluralism or freedom of conscience, and therefore is inherently aggrandising, including over territory. But with a bit of confidence and a bit of toleration we could handle that - if it were not for the issue of degree. It is the scale of Islam in Britain, and the ambition of its leaders for greater scale, that makes the problem. The numbers of people who assembled for the adhan in Trafalgar Square, clearly and openly claiming the territory for a faith with no connection (indeed, with strong doctrinal disagreement) with the model of Western liberal democracy that Britain has developed and exported to the world - that is the problem. The numbers, whether everyone there understood it this way or not (and I suspect many did), convey an explicit threat to the foundations of our country. Being relaxed about other people's religion is a good thing, a very British thing. I don't mind modern druids dancing around Stonehenge in my constituency (arguably, though the historicity is tenuous, they have a claim to the place). I don't mind small groups of Hindus or Buddhists or Muslims demonstrating the reality of Britain's religious toleration by worshiping in Trafalgar Square. But let's not kid ourselves about this adhan, or pretend that we're just seeing another harmless expression of Britain's religious diversity. We are seeing an abuse of liberalism, led by people who are not themselves liberal; or - let us imagine they are acting in good faith - who are themselves deceived about what they are doing. It should not happen again. And it would be good to hear the Church of England say so.

@HasAhmed_ Why do YOU think that Islam is singled out as a (Western) civilisational risk, and not, say, Christianity?

🚨EX-BRITISH DIPLOMAT SAYS BBC IS FURTHERING ISLAMIST ANGENDA The BBC is abhorrent They are corrupted completely by the Islamo-left Defund them 🚫

@JonD_Chadwick @jamespriceglos @dominicgrieve_ @elliottengage @NJ_Timothy Many Muslims aren’t extremists, but some are?

@jamespriceglos @dominicgrieve_ @elliottengage @NJ_Timothy I am utterly baffled by this. I know loads of Muslims, and the weird caricature you present of them has no basis in reality. The idea that there is some secret conspiracy of Muslims to take over Britain is mad. Bonkers. And frankly it smells a lot like bigotry

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.

@memcculloch Congratulations. Well deserved.

It looks like I have funding to develop a model to optimise QI thrusters. I'm also negotiating for funding to do a QI thrust test at a major UK test centre, & some to do the first in-depth empirical survey of a Rindler horizon. To top it off, it is actually sunny today in the UK!

As a Bishop, I cannot stay silent. I have today drafted and sent an open letter to His Majesty King Charles III, the text of which reads as follows: To: His Majesty, Charles III, King of the United Kingdom and the Realms, Supreme Governor of the Church of England, Bearer of the ancient title Defender of the Faith. Your Majesty, I write to you neither as a politician nor as a commentator, but as one of your loyal subjects who, as a bishop of Christ’s Church, cannot remain silent while the Christian foundations of this kingdom are steadily dismantled. Sir, there are moments in the life of a nation when silence becomes a form of betrayal. If I refused to speak to Your Majesty now, this would be such a moment. For more than a thousand years the Crown of this realm has stood in solemn covenant with the Christian faith. The laws of this land were shaped by it. The liberties of our people were nurtured by it. The conscience of our civilisation was formed by it. From the abbeys of medieval England to the parish churches of our villages, from the preaching of the Reformers to the missionary zeal that carried the Gospel to the ends of the earth, the Christian faith has not merely influenced Britain — it has defined her. Yet today that inheritance is being quietly but deliberately eroded. Across the institutions of this nation there is a growing hostility toward the faith that built them. Christian belief is mocked in the public square. Christian morality is dismissed as intolerance. Christian institutions are pressured to surrender doctrine in order to conform to the ideology of the age. Within the very Church that bears the name of England, voices have arisen that appear more eager to mirror the spirit of the age than to proclaim the eternal truth of the Gospel. Meanwhile, beyond the walls of our churches, powerful political movements openly speak of removing Christianity from its historic place within the life of this nation. What would once have been whispered is now proclaimed openly: that Britain must become a post-Christian state. It is in this context that I write to you, Your Majesty. For the British Crown does not stand apart from this crisis. The Sovereign of this realm bears a title that is not merely historic but sacred in its origin and meaning: Defender of the Faith. Those words are not decorative. They are a charge. They speak of a monarch whose duty is not merely to preside over the ceremonies of the Church, but to stand as a guardian of the Christian inheritance of the nation. Yet many among your subjects now ask, with increasing anxiety: “Who will defend that inheritance today?” They see a nation drifting from its foundations. And they ask whether the Crown will remain silent while that inheritance is dismantled. Your Majesty, may I be so bold as to observe that your coronation oath was not a poetic formality. It was a solemn vow made before Almighty God to maintain and preserve the Protestant Reformed Religion established by law. Those words bind the conscience of the sovereign. They remind the Crown that its authority is not merely constitutional but moral. The monarch is not merely a symbol of national continuity, but a custodian of the spiritual inheritance that shaped this realm. History records moments when kings and emperors were confronted by the Church and reminded that their authority was accountable before God. In the fourth century Ambrose of Milan stood before the Emperor Theodosius I and reminded him that even the ruler of an empire must bow before the moral law of Christ. That tradition of prophetic witness has never disappeared. Nor should it. For when rulers forget the foundations upon which their authority rests, the Church must speak — not with hostility, but with holy clarity. And so, I write to say this, Your Majesty: The Christian character of this nation is under profound and accelerating assault. If the Crown does not stand visibly and courageously in defence of that inheritance, history will record that the guardians of Britain’s institutions watched in silence as the foundations were removed. The issue before us is not nostalgia. It is civilisation. Remove Christianity from the story of Britain and you do not create a neutral society — you create a moral vacuum. And history teaches us that moral vacuums are never left empty for long. Your Majesty now stands at a crossroads that few monarchs in modern history have faced. For the erosion of Britain’s Christian inheritance will not ultimately be judged by speeches made in Parliament or debates in the press. It will be judged by whether those entrusted with the guardianship of our ancient institutions chose to defend them — or merely preside over their quiet surrender. You may preside over the quiet dissolution of Britain’s Christian identity. Or you may rise to the ancient responsibility entrusted to the Crown and speak with clarity about the faith that built this kingdom. The first path requires little courage. The second will require a great deal. But it is the path that history honours. Your Majesty’s subjects are not asking for religious coercion. They are asking for leadership. They are asking that the sovereign who bears the title Defender of the Faith remember what that title means. They are asking that the Crown hear the growing cry of anguish from Christians across this land who feel that the spiritual inheritance of their nation is being surrendered without resistance. And they are asking whether the Crown will stand with them. For the faith that shaped Britain is not merely a cultural ornament. It is the wellspring from which our laws, our liberties, and our moral imagination have flowed. If it is cast aside, the nation will discover — too late — that it has severed itself from the very roots that sustained it. Your Majesty, to many the Crown is a symbol of authority. But before God it is also a symbol of stewardship. And stewardship carries with it the duty to defend what has been entrusted. May Almighty God grant Your Majesty the wisdom to discern this hour, and the courage to fulfil the sacred duty entrusted to the Crown. Yours faithfully, Bishop Ceirion H. Dewar FSHC Missionary Bishop Diocese of Providence Confessing Anglican Church @PhilHs10 @RevBrettMurphy @revwickland @BishopRobert1 @GBNews @TalkTV @danwootton @Jacob_Rees_Mogg @LozzaFox @BackBrexitBen @RupertLowe10 @KemiBadenoch @JohnCleese

@SandyofCthulhu The problem is if it doesn’t start in sight of you. It knows where you are, you don’t know where it is. So you are living life on high alert until it turns up (which may be in your sleep)…

Can i not not put the snail in a jar with a screw-on lid? You can tell these guys posting these questions have never had to wrangle the exact meaning of a wish or a curse from a gamemaster in D&D. So poorly worded. *sigh*

@JamesEsses Will this free psychotherapy increase one’s bust size?

I’m offering free psychotherapy to anyone who believes Zack Polanski should be Prime Minister of the UK.