Bob Stone

@Ed_Miliband Oh do shut up. You're not fooling any of us.

5 things we’re doing to help tackle the cost of living 👇

@HouseofCommons What's the point??

Today Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer faced questions from MPs in @houseofcommons.

@BishopDewar Excellent letter and very, very necessary.

As a Bishop, I cannot stay silent. I have today drafted and sent an open letter to His Majesty King Charles III, the text of which reads as follows: To: His Majesty, Charles III, King of the United Kingdom and the Realms, Supreme Governor of the Church of England, Bearer of the ancient title Defender of the Faith. Your Majesty, I write to you neither as a politician nor as a commentator, but as one of your loyal subjects who, as a bishop of Christ’s Church, cannot remain silent while the Christian foundations of this kingdom are steadily dismantled. Sir, there are moments in the life of a nation when silence becomes a form of betrayal. If I refused to speak to Your Majesty now, this would be such a moment. For more than a thousand years the Crown of this realm has stood in solemn covenant with the Christian faith. The laws of this land were shaped by it. The liberties of our people were nurtured by it. The conscience of our civilisation was formed by it. From the abbeys of medieval England to the parish churches of our villages, from the preaching of the Reformers to the missionary zeal that carried the Gospel to the ends of the earth, the Christian faith has not merely influenced Britain — it has defined her. Yet today that inheritance is being quietly but deliberately eroded. Across the institutions of this nation there is a growing hostility toward the faith that built them. Christian belief is mocked in the public square. Christian morality is dismissed as intolerance. Christian institutions are pressured to surrender doctrine in order to conform to the ideology of the age. Within the very Church that bears the name of England, voices have arisen that appear more eager to mirror the spirit of the age than to proclaim the eternal truth of the Gospel. Meanwhile, beyond the walls of our churches, powerful political movements openly speak of removing Christianity from its historic place within the life of this nation. What would once have been whispered is now proclaimed openly: that Britain must become a post-Christian state. It is in this context that I write to you, Your Majesty. For the British Crown does not stand apart from this crisis. The Sovereign of this realm bears a title that is not merely historic but sacred in its origin and meaning: Defender of the Faith. Those words are not decorative. They are a charge. They speak of a monarch whose duty is not merely to preside over the ceremonies of the Church, but to stand as a guardian of the Christian inheritance of the nation. Yet many among your subjects now ask, with increasing anxiety: “Who will defend that inheritance today?” They see a nation drifting from its foundations. And they ask whether the Crown will remain silent while that inheritance is dismantled. Your Majesty, may I be so bold as to observe that your coronation oath was not a poetic formality. It was a solemn vow made before Almighty God to maintain and preserve the Protestant Reformed Religion established by law. Those words bind the conscience of the sovereign. They remind the Crown that its authority is not merely constitutional but moral. The monarch is not merely a symbol of national continuity, but a custodian of the spiritual inheritance that shaped this realm. History records moments when kings and emperors were confronted by the Church and reminded that their authority was accountable before God. In the fourth century Ambrose of Milan stood before the Emperor Theodosius I and reminded him that even the ruler of an empire must bow before the moral law of Christ. That tradition of prophetic witness has never disappeared. Nor should it. For when rulers forget the foundations upon which their authority rests, the Church must speak — not with hostility, but with holy clarity. And so, I write to say this, Your Majesty: The Christian character of this nation is under profound and accelerating assault. If the Crown does not stand visibly and courageously in defence of that inheritance, history will record that the guardians of Britain’s institutions watched in silence as the foundations were removed. The issue before us is not nostalgia. It is civilisation. Remove Christianity from the story of Britain and you do not create a neutral society — you create a moral vacuum. And history teaches us that moral vacuums are never left empty for long. Your Majesty now stands at a crossroads that few monarchs in modern history have faced. For the erosion of Britain’s Christian inheritance will not ultimately be judged by speeches made in Parliament or debates in the press. It will be judged by whether those entrusted with the guardianship of our ancient institutions chose to defend them — or merely preside over their quiet surrender. You may preside over the quiet dissolution of Britain’s Christian identity. Or you may rise to the ancient responsibility entrusted to the Crown and speak with clarity about the faith that built this kingdom. The first path requires little courage. The second will require a great deal. But it is the path that history honours. Your Majesty’s subjects are not asking for religious coercion. They are asking for leadership. They are asking that the sovereign who bears the title Defender of the Faith remember what that title means. They are asking that the Crown hear the growing cry of anguish from Christians across this land who feel that the spiritual inheritance of their nation is being surrendered without resistance. And they are asking whether the Crown will stand with them. For the faith that shaped Britain is not merely a cultural ornament. It is the wellspring from which our laws, our liberties, and our moral imagination have flowed. If it is cast aside, the nation will discover — too late — that it has severed itself from the very roots that sustained it. Your Majesty, to many the Crown is a symbol of authority. But before God it is also a symbol of stewardship. And stewardship carries with it the duty to defend what has been entrusted. May Almighty God grant Your Majesty the wisdom to discern this hour, and the courage to fulfil the sacred duty entrusted to the Crown. Yours faithfully, Bishop Ceirion H. Dewar FSHC Missionary Bishop Diocese of Providence Confessing Anglican Church @PhilHs10 @RevBrettMurphy @revwickland @BishopRobert1 @GBNews @TalkTV @danwootton @Jacob_Rees_Mogg @LozzaFox @BackBrexitBen @RupertLowe10 @KemiBadenoch @JohnCleese

@GavinBoby Superb ... well done Gavin!

Yes, this was me.

@ThePosieParker These two videos are fantastic. Brought tears to my eyes yesterday. They should be shown far and wide.

Child marriage is a reality for too many girls.

@john4brexit Did you listen to him on @SkyNews this morning? I had to sadly, beause I was having issues tuning into @GBNEWS. What an unbelievable load of drivel. He should be forced to go on @CamillaTominey 's show, but he'safraid to. She'd decimate him and his blatant nonsense.

EXCLUSIVE: Ed Miliband vows to 'fight' to keep energy bills down mirror.co.uk/news/politics/… - WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN?! Paying subsidies with other people’s money? What about those tens of thousands of hard working people losing their livelihoods because mad Ed is destroying British Indy while exporting jobs & pollution to those countries that don’t care?

@christopherhope @GBNEWS Bless!

The sole TV reporter in Downing St right now. Keep watching @GBNEWS for all the latest updates on the Peter Mandelson saga.

@ukhomeoffice Words fail me

Britain will always be an open, tolerant and generous country.

@DavidMKeyes At last ... a REAL application for AR/"Smart" glasses!

Notice anything odd about Gen. Qaani's glasses? Since he's back in Israel, I can now reveal that Israel's Unit 81 in partnership with Snapchat developed this pair of AR glasses which secretly transmitted everything Qaani saw to Israel. Only pair ever made and helped win the war.

@ShabanaMahmood Unbelievable.

Not More Green. Not More Reform. More Labour. 🌹

@BasilTheGreat What a total numpty They ALL HAVE TO GO.

🚨David Lammy being terminally thick on TV again this morning "We're sending forces to support Cyprus because Cyprus is a NATO country" One problem with that Cyprus is NOT a NATO country

@ZackPolanski Idiot

Migration is part of what makes this country great. We're not an island of strangers - we're an island of neighbours. The Green Party will always support fair & managed migration.

@LeescoLee3 Bless you Lee ... just wish we could change things sooner 😪

No need for apologies dear cousins. We know you are being held captive. We support you and pray for you. 2029 cannot come too soon.

@EmilyThornberry Silly ignorant lady

Wars are only ever resolved through negotiation. It’s tragic that calm heads did not prevail in the US when the Omani Foreign Minister said, just hours before the bombing started, that a peace deal was within reach. And now hotheads in Iran think it’s a good idea to bomb Oman.

@GlobeEyeNews Absolutely amazing. Can you imagine the relief for all those people?

BREAKING: Abu Dhabi and Dubai order all hotels to extend stays for those unable to travel due to the circumstances, and the government will cover the cost.

@usarmyvet24 God bless them. Heroes all. 😪

Today I ask, take a second to Honor the 3 Soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice in #OperationEpicFury Today, 3 Families were visited by a 2 car Government convoy at their homes, and received the notification no one ever should have to experience. Their lives changed forever! Pray 🙏 For Our Sodiers and their Families

@Neccccy YES

Evil !!! Agree? Yes or No?

@Kevin_Maguire Oh dear 🙄

I usually go to the polling station with my partner. My adult children came too when they lived at home. Was that "family voting" or absolutely fine because we're White skinned and not Muslims?

@MothinAli God help us

It's a Green Party in Gorton and Denton Vote Hannah Spencer Vote Green 💚

@DavidLammy @nigelfarage Put your own diabolical house in order before levelling criticisms of others. You are in NO position to demand apologies.

Absolutely disgusting. No politician should ever face death threats. Violent speech has no place in our politics - or our country. @NigelFarage must grow a backbone, apologise and sack him.