RevTonyPears

I’m not a Christian Nationalist- as past writings will tell- but the irony of people like “Prof” Roberts, who have been putting out hardcore anti religion bigotry for decades, now clutching pearls about something being anti ‘all other religions and worldviews’ is hilarious.

Are not clergy troubled? Do they not believe that their people deserve better than this? Where are the voices? These people wang on about ‘justice’ all the time? How are they pleading for it when it’s difficult!?

Though, fair play, I can understand why Sarah Mullally wouldn’t want to draw attention to an uninspiring and unpopular managerialist defending someone nonce-adjacent.

This is easily the most morally sordid end to a government for years and yet our Bishops remain silent. When Tory PMs fell- who, for the record I think were disgraceful incompetents but not Paedo adjacent- bishops yapped like chihuahuas. Now they are totally quiet. Why?

Forcing a freezing parish to rip out its new boilers (costing over £18,000) and then spend £60,000 on heat pumps so perfectly epitomises the contempt in which the national church holds the local church. telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01/0…

@RhonddaBryant @KemiBadenoch You’re going to hit the roof when you discover who Lord Hermer’s been representing!

@_F_B_G_ Rural ministry

@_F_B_G_ Unless things have changed in total ministry you will probably spend Boxing Day fielding calls from couples who announced their engagements when back in the village for Christmas, and couldn’t wait to book the church and vicar.

Now for my traditional Christmas afternoon activity- fielding the irate and confused messages of family members and friends who have had to go to Christmas sermons which were pitched at the intellectual level of a whelk.

BBC's prestige new history series resembles low budget US cable channel slop. Tabloid talking heads shitty CGI, endless bombastic computer game music, ad break recaps and TikTok historiography. Lots of us want to defend the BBC but they need to helo us by doing better than this.

Without fail the most autocratic clergy are the ones who go on most about how much they reject clericalism and how down to earth they are.

Not often you hear a more insincere or patronising parliamentary contribution than this from the appalling Baroness Chapman. Obviously the Government doesn't care about the Chagossians' views because they are ignoring all evidence about their overwhelming opposition to the treaty

Ofsted visited Luke’s school in 2009 - it was Good - in 2017 it was Outstanding

The double speak, the deceit and the gaslighting which proponents of this bill seem willing to engage in to achieve their aims has a name: evil.

Everyone deserves a safe and secure home. I look forward to continuing to work with the local community to improve conditions for renters. (3/3) westleedsdispatch.com/armley-green-l…

Where does one begin?

After spending the night in hospital with my daughter, who is very unwell but not life threatening, I don’t want to hear another word about how great the nhs is. The nurses have not looked after her at all. Loud unnecessary conversations throughout the night, lazy can’t be arsed attitudes, no explanation of what’s happening, at all, no desire to offer reassurance or comfort, not one question about whether she wants to sit up or lie down. We are being made to feel like everything is too much and we should be grateful for less than the absolute minimum. She asked for more pain killers, as it’s been six hours. “We will come at six, as it must be six hours unless you’re in pain” (it can actually be four) we explained the doctor says to make it regular, she’s also had morphine and that she is in a lot of pain. “If you dont wait until six the next lot will be hours and hours and hours” I ask what time the last lot was as we think it’s been a really long time. “11:13, so she can wait until six, unless she’s in pain” I say that that’s six hours ago. “Yes so at six we will come round” I have to say “no, at six it’ll be nearly seven hours, she’s in pain now, please can you go and get the pain relief now” She goes. When she returns, rather than coming round to the side of her bed to give a patient medicine, on a drip, she leans from the bottom of the bed and motions for my daughter to get up and take it from her. I have to remind the nurse that she’s in hospital because she’s unwell and in agony. “Oh I didn’t know, I’m new to this ward” this ward is uneventful, nothing is happening. She must have read my daughter’s chart to give her the tablets. What sort of nurse gives tablets from the bottom of a bed?!?! Imagine I wasn’t here? How many patients would have felt despite the pain they should take it from her? Imagine my daughter was a frail or vulnerable patient? The entire experience has been god awful. The hospital is very empty, with wards full lit with no patients in them. It’s utterly utterly shit.

@_F_B_G_ Totally agree with you. Francis might have agreed too, he would encourage his little brothers and sisters to relax their self discipline if it was proving to be a barrier for the weak .

Like many saints, I suspect Francis of Assisi would have actually been a real nightmare to spend time around.

The Feast Day today of Francis of Assisi, he features in Twelve Churches with a description of the intensely annoying ticks he picked up in a visit to Bethlehem.

This is the reality of a Brit card 🇬🇧 Funny thing is people will think this is absurd and is just A.I fun, but this is highly likely to happen down the line.

How Brit Card will really work.

Mitchell and Webb’s take on assisted dying