Mr Chipping
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Fictional Headmaster. All views expressed are those of my Chair of Governors.
Turns out Hannah Spencer has the popular opinion on this one..
JUST IN: Vatican releases photos of Pope Leo XIV’s meeting today with Sarah Mullally. In his address to her, the Pope noted that: “While much progress has been made on some historically divisive issues, new problems have arisen in recent decades, rendering the pathway to full communion more difficult to discern.” Of course, chief among these new problems is the fact that a woman dressed in liturgical attire is now being passed off — and celebrated by the Vatican and even by the Pope — as someone who seemingly has valid Orders when she doesn’t — first because she’s a woman and second because she’s an Anglican. So much so that, during her visit to St. Peter’s Basilica on Sunday, a Vatican official (Archbishop Flavio Pace, Secretary of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity) bowed before her in the Clementine Chapel — one of the most sacred places in the Vatican grottoes, located just next to the tomb of St. Peter — and made the Sign of the Cross as though receiving a real blessing from her. Absolutely absurd. More photos and full address here: vatican.va/content/leo-xi…
Brit: I’ll schedule the meeting for Monday, June 1st Me: That’s a public holiday in Kenya. I won’t be working. Brit: Really? What’s the holiday about? …
The City has professionalised significantly, and wine or beers at lunch have declined markedly. Everyone's more serious, more stressed. But I'm not sure anyone believes that client outcomes actually improved as a consequence. Would political outcomes improve?
The President almost just got assassinated and members of the media are using the opportunity to steal bottles of wine. You don’t hate them enough!
If a train driver drinks on the job they go to prison. MPs can kill a lot more people
Well yes. We need to be precise about what behaviour we are criticising. Getting visibly drunk should, and I believe is, criticised in Parliament. But saying having a pint at 9pm on a Wednesday evening with a colleague while you both wait to vote (which just requires you to walk through the right lobby, and nobody decides how to vote on the spot) is just so ridiculously innocent. I am assuming people outraged at this also do not understand what the voting process looks like late at night. MPs are not in the chamber for most debates (that would be literally impossible and undesirable). Not all votes are particularly controversial or important either, many are just procedural. We should explain these things those who know better than jump on the opportunity to make people think of all MPs as subhuman.
On this day 111 years ago, thousands of young Australian and New Zealand men many thousands of miles away from their home attempted to land on a series of beaches in Turkey. They had crossed the known world to fight for their countries. For many of them, this was their last day on Earth. At least 2,000 of them passed on the shores on foreign lands they had never visited before, leaving mothers, fathers, wives, brothers, sisters, friends to mourn for them when the news arrived. They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.
The Republic of Somaliland reaffirms its support for Argentina’s sovereignty, territorial integrity, political independence, and unity over the Islas Malvinas (Falkland Islands).
The Republic of Somaliland reaffirms its support for Argentina’s sovereignty, territorial integrity, political independence, and unity over the Islas Malvinas (Falkland Islands).
🚨 NEW: Angela Rayner’s allies have told Keir Starmer that he must sack Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood for her to return to Cabinet Rayner recently branded Mahmood's immigration reforms "un-British" and a "breach of trust" [@thetimes]
It should be a huge scandal if the Labour members actually make Ed Miliband PM. It’s extraordinary it’s even spoken of as a serious prospect. Someone who has been explicitly rejected by the people, snuck into Number Ten all the same. Makes a mockery of democracy.
