Peter Lumsden

@IsabelOakeshott @reformparty_uk what a nasty, spiteful comment Isabel. I pray you might discover a bit of kindness within yourself

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@germann_ro @RyanSoapKing25 which was quite a good one I thought

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They literally could've aired The Neighbourhood on Sunday - why are they airing it now? #ImACeleb

@snigrintrigrin oh come on, that was light-hearted and quite funny

#hignfy Standard champagne socialist wankfest

@Mathias8Wolf why does @BBCr4today lead with 'Trump posts on truth social', as if there's any truth in what he says. He is NOT truthful, is not our ally, & cares for nothing but attention and enriching his family. Please lead with more reliable stories @amolrajan @bbcnickrobinson @MethodistGB

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@jamesonfarlow @JohnPiper To think that we could in anyway 'offend' the divine as a starter is surely a misunderstanding that has been perpetrated since Anselm. Is it not more the case that 'sin' is getting things wrong, not capital offences; we need help to improve, not punishment. A parent's love....

Deserve and worth are different things, and your commentary fails to distinguish between. Even if we do not deserve gods gift, we are worthy of it, because the very act of his crucifixion to save us gives us a stamp of worth; his sacrificing of himself is of oncalculable value and since he does it for us (and no action God undertakes is an unworthy action) he is imputes his own worth onto us. This and the sparrows passage

I have heard it said, “God didn’t die for frogs. He died for humans, implying we were worth the sacrifice.” This turns grace on its head. We are less deserving than frogs. They have not sinned. They have not rebelled and treated God with the contempt of being inconsequential in their lives. God did not have to die for frogs. They aren’t bad enough. We are. Our debt is so great, only a divine sacrifice could pay it.

@ExtraSaltedNuts @johnmilbank3 maybe 'purposes ' rather than 'plans'?

@johnmilbank3 If a thing is thought, but not yet enacted, it is a plan. Scripture says God plans because His will has not yet come to pass on a matter.

It is idolatry to imagine that God has any ‘plans’. His thinking is simply his doing and his agency is indissociable from his spontaneous, eternal, simple and single (though multiple) act.

@monasiddiqui7 interesting, inc that @timothy_stanley was a Baptist! I think 'established' church is only an 'issue' at the 'high' point. Locally not really significant (apart from some snooty clergy). With interfaith forums and #FaithCovenants, Anglicans are one among equals @FaithActionNet

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@CuniculusV15634 @ProfHall1955 exactly. Fortunately not recently though

@ProfHall1955 Melanie Philips was on the Moral Maze every week.

I feel your pain. I was once feted by the BBC as an authority on crime and violence. BBC News, The Long View, Moral Maze etc. A producer told me I was the 'next public intellectual'. In 2009 I signed a BDS petition as a protest against Israel. Haven't heard from them since.

@timothy_stanley they also believed all the lies around Brexit, and will probably also swallow the Reform populist propaganda too - just like @Telegraph Easter blessings Tim

People want their kids to go to a church school cos it's run well, but don't feel the church should run it. Mindblowing but, yes, people are that dumb.

Well, the public is awful. 🤷‍♂️

@Lux1090 @timothy_stanley @ChillinJalfrezi as a start @timothy_stanley suggest avoid equating culture with conservatism - our culture is one thing which IS shared, conservatism is not. The 'rot'? consumerism? convenience? austerity? arts / culture funding cuts? lack of intention in 'preserving' heritage? A SHARED problem

@timothy_stanley @ChillinJalfrezi It’s deep and civilisational imo. The right is in some sense correct to be obsessed with immigration over recent years. But they’ve not seriously reckoned with just how deep the rot goes within the ‘White British’ population, and they have no suggestions, let alone solutions.

@jacobLadder9 @Telegraph @connor_stringer disgraceful behaviour from the right-wing press....patriotic eh??

@Telegraph @connor_stringer We need to ignore this man but because he is talking down a Labour Prime Minister, the Telegraph et al are happy to promote the deranged anti-British ramblings of a Foreign leader on it's front pages. Disgusting!

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@PeteSamuelLegon @BBCr4today Again, I largely/ partly agree Peter. Certainly IF we had had a long-term industrial strategy which included inward investment and training, then less need for immigration. Needed to be a 'social' strategy too, around worth, culture, identity. Capitalism per se has no such regard

@PLumsden @BBCr4today Disenfranchisement of the natives is an integral part of Neoliberalism. To ensure any kind of protection doesn't inhibit global capital. Mass-migration has been carried out for no other reason than the disenfranchisement of the native worker. We never needed millions of people.

"We've gone from being a relatively equitable country to being the most unequal in all of Europe." The University of Oxford's Professor Danny Dorling explains the UK's regional inequality problem.

@PeteSamuelLegon @BBCr4today decline in labour groups, trade unions etc has definitely been a bad thing - affecting not just capital, but communities and sense of worth

@PLumsden @BBCr4today Disenfranchisement of the natives is an integral part of Neoliberalism. To ensure any kind of protection doesn't inhibit global capital. Mass-migration has been carried out for no other reason than the disenfranchisement of the native worker. We never needed millions of people.

@PeteSamuelLegon @BBCr4today im definitely no supporter of neoliberal capitalism Peter. But a focus on 'the immigrant' surely risks deflecting attention away from the source of the problem

@PLumsden @BBCr4today People paying minimal tax via VAT mainly, as they are too low paid to pay any real level of income tax, are taxpayer subsided workers, for the capitalist. This reduces the leverage of the native worker. That is the whole point. Neoliberal capitalism is inherently anti-nativist.

@PeteSamuelLegon @BBCr4today if they are 'workers' Peter, then they are paying taxes. Housing, education etc are not benefits. I agree that we should make (have made) more effort to use British born people, but that we haven't is not then the fault of the immigrants coming to fill those gaps

@PLumsden @BBCr4today The threshold at which people are net contributors to the economy is 30k pa. We have imported millions of low-skilled workers dependent on the state for housing, income, medical care, schooling income support. We have our own low-skilled workers & poor. This is clearly a policy.

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@PeteSamuelLegon @BBCr4today Who are the 'benefit-dependent' migrants Peter? btw I agree that benefit-dependency is a systemic problem

@PLumsden @BBCr4today Logical fallacy. Immigrants overall is a false dichotomy. I said benefit dependent migrants. Not importing benefit dependent migrants does not mean we don't have the beneficial ones. Migration is an optimisation problem, not a binary problem. We don't need millions more people.

@ReformSecYork the 'policy' is lack of investment regionally; focus on immigration is YOUR (cynical) policy, which diverts attention away from the long term, systemic issues around how to generate growth in 'left-behind' towns / regions. Same play book as Brexit and blaming the EU for our ills!

Prof Danny Dorling on Radio 4 is correct about the growth of inequality in Britain. This is the result of policy. However his analysis fails when it comes to causes, a key underlying reason is mass inward migration, which put downward pressure on wages and upward pressure on housing costs. People sense this and that is why they are turning to political movements he pejoratively labels as ‘far right’. People want politics centred on their needs not the failed ideology of the Established Parties. We can see that in Britain, America and across Europe too.

@PeteSamuelLegon @BBCr4today That's incorrect Peter. Immigrants overall are net contributors through payment of taxes, and being healthier are less dependent on the health service. Blaming them, like blaming the EU / Brexit just avoids facing the systemic problem - lack of investment regionally

@BBCr4today Shipping in benefit dependent migrants whilst trying to fix inequality, is like try to fill a bucket with a hole. It is by and larger natives having their wealth redistributed for this insane neo-colonialism.