@johncosgrove405 @Crowe_JE @GBNEWS Well one could do an act of worship of a broadly Christian character that some would still feel inappropriate (eg, an explicitly Roman Catholic prayer or whatever) and would warrant complaint.
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@Crowe_JE @DreadnoughtRN @GBNEWS I am very well aware that every school must have a complaints procedure. It is entirely appropriate for parents to complain if things are going wrong, or if they think things are going wrong. To complain to a school because it is following the law is just stupid.
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The truth is so much less fun. The Diocese clarified: "it was not an act of worship - no prayers or religious words were spoken and no child was required to take part. No mats were used and pupils were not asked to face any particular direction.” @GBNEWS stop spreading lies.
GB News@GBNEWS
Schoolchildren as young as seven 'coerced into Islamic prayer at Church of England primary' gbnews.com/news/lincolnsh…
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@TonyDowson5 Always a bit of an odd one, this. I think people hold the view that jokes are by definition good and funny, so if there’s a joke one disagree with it is a “so-called joke”.
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When people say that it's not a joke — what do they think it really is?
An incantation? A funeral oration? A sermon?
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"so-called Malcolm Offord joke" What was it if not a joke????
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@Bmac0507 Harry’s dad is going to look pretty based when he hangs Snape.
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Literally no one will care about any of this if the show is good
End Wokeness@EndWokeness
Harry Potter: Snape has pale sallow skin HBO (2026):
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@drsanjoykumar Stand firm, Dr.
Destroy the nudge unit and the stage managed grief process for all time, so further tragedies of this nature are prevented.
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I miss my little girl so much. S
The Times and The Sunday Times@thetimes
The parents of Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar, killed by a schizophrenic, say failings by police and psychiatrists mean ‘it could happen to any family’ #Echobox=1774468840" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thetimes.com/uk/crime/artic…
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Why do so many Americans seem to genuinely believe Charles has converted to Islam?
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@spriggsy78 @DAaronovitch Even that’s 20 years old now though.
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'The irony, of course, is that Bennett himself arguably helped wreck this shared identity himself.' 'Of course' sits badly with 'arguably'. And the true irony is a piece aiming to take down an English 'treasure' in the name of defending English tradition.
UnHerd@unherd
ALAN BENNETT’S ENGLISH GROTESQUE, by Fred Sculthorp (@skulthorp) Why is Alan Bennett so popular? This is a question that seems to haunt him — as well as the sense that the Bennett of 1961 would have hated what he’s now become: a sort-of literary Elizabeth II, a national treasure to prop up the cosiness and eccentricity so lacking in the country today. About to receive a retrospective at the height of the pandemic, with a revival of his seminal 1988 series Talking Heads, he regards the whole thing as out of step with the emergency raging around him. The National Gallery, upon making him a trustee, informs Bennett almost to his horror that he is ‘the man on the street’. As he’s anointed in that role, Bennett seems almost to realise that England has simply run out of ideas — or people — that define what really brings it together. The irony, of course, is that Bennett himself arguably helped wreck this shared identity himself. At some point in the 21st century, he loses his touch and his ‘ordinariness’ becomes tweeness, as he fawns to an increasingly tainted centre-left. Typical here is The History Boys, a 2004 paean to the idea of social mobility, northern multiculturalism and working-class autodidactism and which now feels as out-of-step with the present as Goodbye Mr Chips. What happened to the great Alan Bennett of yore? Read more below ⬇️
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@FraserNelson You’re a famous journalist Fraser! Your mug or P Hitchens mugs are there for a reason.
I don’t doubt she’s very talented but the Mail has a proud history of putting attractive young women on the front page for spurious reasons.
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@DreadnoughtRN And middle aged men! My mugshot was on the Times p1 last week. But more importantly the substance of her investigation answers the cliches about the work done by young women in newspapers.
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Great to see another former Spectator intern, Mimi Yates, make her debut on the front page of the Mail today.
That anonymous, no-name, CV-blind scheme has been an incredibly effective talent-hunting mechanism.
Any company could set up an equivalent!
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The English royal house is like the least legitimate in Europe. You get the Plantagenets who get overthrown by the Tudors. The Tudors die out under Elizabeth. Then England import the Stuarts from Scotland. They futz around with a civil war, kill the Stuart king, then bring him back. THEN they run the new Stuart out of town and bring in some Dutch royalty for a while. They replace the Dutch with the German House of Hanover, who die out because George IV is too retarded to have a kid. Then they bring in the House of Saxe-Coburg but changed its name during WW1 to Windsor because the old name sounded German (because it is).
By comparison the Dutch House of Orange dates back to 1568, when they revolted from Spain. The Danish monarchy goes back to the 900s. The Japanese imperial dynasty started in 660 BC. The Royal house of Brunei is 600 years old.
The British royals are upstarts by comparison.
C.T. Phipps - Capepunk, Cthulhu, and Scifi author@CT_Phipps
The American Revolution wasn't considered a radical revolution in Britain. A reminder by that time they'd already beheaded three kings, one queen (Jane Grey may not count), and replaced one with his German relatives.
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@johncosgrove405 @Crowe_JE @GBNEWS You’ve cut off the end of that phrase. “A daily act of worship of a broadly Christian character.”
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@AaronBastani @arash_tehran Liberate it from who? The Greeks, the Turks or the British?
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@arash_tehran Presumably to what are British territories on the island (two huge military bases).
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Wait, what is this banner’s politics on Cyprus? I legit didn’t get it :)) they want who to return?
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@FraserNelson @JonathanBlay11 Fraser I love Penelope Keith and Peter Bowles too, but the expression is “to the manner born”.
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@JonathanBlay11 That’s precisely the point. You play the hand you’re dealt in life: someone who left school age 16 and someone to the manor born are treated on their ability alone. It’s about meritocracy: nothing more, nothing less.
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@ingelramdecoucy @GraysonBurnett3 @MemoristCed Built entirely atop a foundation of “well I mean yes theoretically you *could* do that, but nobody ever would”.
Worked pretty well from 1689 to 1997.
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For a lot of you younger folk this will be the first major schismatic event you’ve been around to witness, it’ll be interesting to see how it plays out as the various chunks of the global Anglican Church react to this
Disclose.tv@disclosetv
NOW - Dame Sarah Mullally is officially "enthroned" as the Archbishop of Canterbury, head of the Church of England, becoming the first woman to take the role in 1,400 years.
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Incoherent and conspiratorial American posting confusing threat, followed by the block.
Not actually many such cases, but more than you’d imagine.
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@fiscal_respons @MemoristCed @ingelramdecoucy Net migration in the UK is likely to be the lowest (outside of Covid) since the 1990s this year too. But all I have to read from American accounts is LONDON HAS FALLEN ALL THE BRAVE MEN DIED IN WWI blah blah blah.
Gets boring after a while.
I support your good work over there.
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@DreadnoughtRN @MemoristCed @ingelramdecoucy We’re literally doing mass deportations.
Net migration into America is negative for the first time in 50 years.
Liberals are calling it ethnic cleansing.
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@Dogbox19 @si_rubinstein Shucks and jives for the rupee. Sad to see.
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@si_rubinstein I like Dalrymple when he writes about Britain's depraved underclass, however he's unbelievably woke when he writes about India and the Empire.
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Peter Hitchens? Eric Kaufmann? Theodore Dalrymple? David Goodhart?
John Merrick@johnpmerrick
While it's fun to laugh at someone who wrote such obvious nonsense, i do have a broader point buried in the article too. It's hard today to think of someone from the British right writing a serious book –– in fact, it's hard to picture them even reading one
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Nick Timothy, a leading Conservative MP, thinks that it's somehow an outrage that an envelope has some Bengali writing on it.
A bit like how countries like Spain publish many things in English for people whose Spanish isn't perfect.
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@MikeLevin ???? You were threatening to invade their territory? Obviously they have a right to attempt to defend it.
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This is truly insane, and it should be front page news across America.
Denmark secretly deployed soldiers to Greenland prepared to blow up airport runways to stop a U.S. invasion.
They brought blood supplies to treat the wounded. France, Germany, Norway, and Sweden quietly coordinated against us.
This was not a drill.
This was our closest allies preparing to fight Americans.
Let that sink in. NATO allies. Countries whose soldiers have fought and died alongside ours for decades. They looked at this president and decided they had to prepare for the worst.
Fewer allies does not make America great. It makes us more isolated, more vulnerable, and it hands Russia and China exactly what they have always wanted: an America abandoned by its friends.
The American people deserve to know how badly this president has damaged our standing in the world. bbc.com/news/articles/…
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I need people to realize that rock is a Black genre. It’s roots are deeply tied to the innovations of Black artists like Chuck Berry, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and Little Richard. Its not about "joining" the genre, it is about reclaiming a legacy that was whitewashed.
WELCOME TO BLACK TWlTTER @blacktwiterthrd
Black people in rock >>> Let me go check out his music 😮💨 🔥
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@MemoristCed @ingelramdecoucy In my experience a lot of Americans on X use Britain as a safe space to kick out at.
“We may be a minority now but at least we’re not 6% Muslim, All the real men died in the war” etc etc etc
I just highlight Americans are in an objectively worse demographic place than us.
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Does this blurb from an AI bot in some wise contradict what I said?
I'm a big fan of the UK getting their spirit back and enforcing their rights. They need to. They should have a country they can be proud of--if they're willing to do what's required to get it. But I'm not convinced they are willing, right now.
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