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@LMSChairman It reflects a certain persons political leanings rather than any fidelity to CST?

Austen posts this in all seriousness just after the murder of Anne Widdecombe, who was in front line party politics for decades. There is a whole lot of Catholics far more faithful than Burnham in party politics, on all sides.

@AnneEBailey1 Treacle found here?

On the feast day of St Margaret of Antioch: St Margaret's Church and holy well at Binsey, near Oxford. (Also associated with St Frideswide, Oxford's patron saint!) 📸2025

@DoubtingDeacon @DrMusicale Where’s Wally?

@DrMusicale Where's Ange? 😊

Where’s Wes??… 👀

@Peter88902568 At least he’s not the eco-John the Baptist any longer

From national to international laughing stock. Enjoy your holibobs, Edward. Don't rush back.

@RafHM He does not practice any faith

Almost no comment on the fact that Andy Burnham is the first Roman Catholic P.M. in UK history Under The Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829, Mr Burnham is prohibited from advising the King on appointments to the C of E. This will be delegated to a government minister Rishi Sunak, a Hindu, was not prohibited from advising the King on these matters - one of the quirks of history and the British constitution. Boris Johnson was baptised into the Catholic faith as an infant but converted to Anglicanism when at Eton. Tony Blair was an Anglican in office and converted to Catholicism a few months after leaving No. 10. Andy Burnham is a cradle Catholic and continues to practice his faith. He was educated at Catholic schools, as are his children. In 2009 he told The Guardian that the three most important things in his life, aside from family, are "Everton FC, the Labour Party and the Catholic church - in that order".

@BruvverEccles After all some seem to think he is the Messiah or some other prophet?

@BruvverEccles He might have 12 Disciples perhaps?

A good start.

@yuanyi_z Yes but with jeans and loafers

Andy Burnham is going to wear privy councillor dress yes?

@yuanyi_z schadenfreude

Hermer out.

@DrFrancisYoung It’s in a terraced house in Salford allegedly

I think they should continue to keep the exact location of 'No. 10 North' secret in order to provide us all with a Banksy-style frisson of excitement

@AnneEBailey1 True but it was cheap and not too busy compared to what it is now. They did expoit tourists but cheap local busses were available for example to Mostar. Also managed to get to Medugorje from there.

@TimGuile We were there in the late 1980s and it was the most touristy part of Yugoslavia we visited.

"Dubrovnik has long been one of Europe's most over-touristed destinations. Now, a new Camino footpath is revealing a different side of the city beyond its medieval walls." bbc.com/travel/article…

@fugitiveink The end is nigh possibly?

Who knows what this portends

@linmanfu @Katie_Lam_MP @pattif21 I’ve written several articles on the period in question

@linmanfu @Katie_Lam_MP @pattif21 Most of the Act against recusants were applied to Catholics long before James was on the throne. The situation after 1605 is very well researched and documented.

I can save the Church some time. If they take money donated for parish churches and spend it on slavery reparations instead, that's going to damage trust. But that's exactly what the Church has done through its disastrous 'Project Spire'.

@linmanfu @Katie_Lam_MP @pattif21 We know about Guy Fawkes etc

@linmanfu @Katie_Lam_MP @pattif21 Sorry but could you please share evidence and sources for your claim? Thanks

@NicholasOShaug1 It was a largely Protestant campaign against women they called witches. Misogynistic?

When were the witch hunts though, and who did them? The RC church officially denied the existence of witches over a thousand years go; in England their persecution begins with James 1, as satirised in Macbeth?

@ArkaSerezh The post-war if-it’s-old-knock-it-down syndrome

The Imperial Institute in South Kensington took six years to build and was completed in 1893. It had a 280-foot central tower in carved terracotta and stone, Romanesque arches, and an interior with elaborate mosaic floors and carved stone columns. In 1957 the government demolished it to expand Imperial College. No individual minister was held responsible. No vote was taken in Parliament. John Betjeman called it 'an act of outright barbarism.' Only the tower survives, marooned in the middle of a modern campus.