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Liam Stokes

@LNJStokes

Land, animals & countryside | Former Defra G6 and rural NGO CEO | Writing on politics, environment, faith & imagination

Chippenham, England Katılım Ağustos 2011
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Liam Stokes@LNJStokes·
I have a new free essay up tackling aliens and Christianity from the nature, faith and fantasy perspective: - alien microbes - warp travel - Aquinas on multiple incarnations - the terrifying possibility of unredeemed aliens
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Step three of my strategy for defeating the mother of all writer's blocks. 10 weeks of post-injury creative inertia unblocked through acceptance, routine and JOURNALLING.
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BijanOmrani@BijanOmrani·
Another thing that is thoroughly irritating about this take is the idea that the origins of Englishness and monarchy can be separated. In the vision of Bede, nationhood arises from the relationship between a people, a king, and God. Kings such as Alfred were fundamental for the development of the idea of England. And as for scrubbing the military out of it, where are the origins of the English and Englishness without the Battle of Edington or the Battle of Maldon?
The Independent@Independent

Author and DJ Zakia Sewell is using British folk culture to challenge far-right nationalism. Sewell has journeyed around the British Isles exploring Britain’s folk resurgence for her debut book, Finding Albion: Myth, Folklore and the Quest for a Hidden Britain. Finding Albion builds on Sewell’s hit audio series for BBC Radio 4, which saw her seek out a different, more inclusive idea of “Britishness” beyond the usual national myths and symbols. Click on the link in bio to read 🔗

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Daniel Hannan
Daniel Hannan@DanielJHannan·
The hereditaries are again trooping through the lobbies, making small but important improvements to the Pension Schemes Bill. Almost all of them were here until after midnight last night voting dutifully on the Crime Bill. They have all been served notice. Yet they are working to the last minute, putting the rest of us to shame.
Daniel Hannan@DanielJHannan

Three of Starmer’s nominees have already been brought down by revelations about their pasts. No one - literally no one - believes that the rest of us are here “through public service and merit”. We are a collection of quangocrats, trade union dinosaurs, councillors and ex-MPs.

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Rev Daniel French
Rev Daniel French@holydisrupter·
A week after the election I organised a discreet meeting of around fifty Christian thought leaders nervous of what an ideological driven government might enact and how Christians might prepare. We never imagined the decriminalisation of abortion up to birth. Never.
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Liam Stokes@LNJStokes·
@timothy_stanley Is it out of context? Like you, I want to like her speech and share it and park my RC priors and show solidarity, but wasn't it all a bit qualified and ambiguous? I'm not sure I understand the moral position underpinning her vote.
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Sam Hailes@samhailes·
@LNJStokes @MatthewPFirth Oh you're totally right. If you watch a 7 second clip, it's very ambiguous. If you take the trouble to watch the whole 4 minutes (I know that's really hard for people on X who have the attention span of a gnat) then her position is crystal clear.
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Bishop Matthew@MatthewPFirth·
It was extremely disappointing to see Sarah Mullally arguing in favour of decriminalising abortion in tonight’s debate.
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Incredibly sad reading these reflections on the horror show in parliament yesterday. What a tragic day. Solidarity with all those peers who fought the good fight.
Lord (David) Alton@DavidAltonHL

Tragically for the baby in the womb, by 185 votes to 148 votes, @UKHouseofLords rejected @MoncktonR Baroness Monckton's, amendment to overturn the new extreme clause allowing self administered home abortions up to birth. Peers also rejected by 191 votes to 119 votes Baroness Stroud's amendment to reinstate in-person consultations with a medical professional, prior to an abortion taking place at home. So, a bad day for vulnerable women, a bad day for the unborn child, a bad day for medical ethics and a bad day for the sanctity of human life. Nevertheless, both in @UKParliament , and in public polling, people have been reassessing and rejecting laws that have led to the ending of one UK life every two minutes -300,000 every year. In 1967, when abortion was made legal, just 29 MPs voted pro life- so, opposition has grown. But, bad laws will only change when the public push the right to life up the political agenda.

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Liam Stokes@LNJStokes·
This is excellent fun. In the headline pheasant shooting is 500 years old. In the opening line it is a 1000 year old tradition. gbnews.com/politics/labou…
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@samhailes @MatthewPFirth The issue is surely that her intervention was so ambiguous. At a moment that demands clarity, there was so much qualification in her response that it is hard to argue exactly what moral position was being advanced as the reasons for her vote.
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Sam Hailes@samhailes·
@MatthewPFirth You've ripped 7 seconds out of a 4 minute speech. In doing so, you've taken away all context and have written a tweet that twists her words. She didn't argue in favour of deciminlisation. She opposed it and voted against it. You should delete this and apologise.
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Liam Stokes@LNJStokes·
I apologise for doom posting. Hard not to feel doom-laden at times. But let's not forget the inevitability of hope. Happy St Joseph's Day everyone.
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Liam Stokes@LNJStokes·
@WalkerMarcus @cath_cov @ArchbishopSarah Am I being uncharitable or was that speech just a little ambiguous? I wanted to share it in an act of solidarity but I'm not sure what moral position is being advanced
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(((Dan Hodges)))
(((Dan Hodges)))@DPJHodges·
This is, by some distance, the most contemptible performance I’ve seen from a sitting Prime Minister at PMQs. Quite staggering to think Starmer once posed as the man who would restore faith in the conduct of our elected officials.
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK

🚨 WATCH: Tory MP Andrew Snowden attacks Keir Starmer's "pre-scripted nonsense" answers which bear "no resemblance" to the questions asked Starmer: "They don't want to talk about the war because they supported going into the war without thinking of the consequences" #PMQs

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