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@holysmoke @Liturgy I hate to be a bore but that’s not true

@LibbyMag @Liturgy ‘Religious’ as a noun typically refers to a non-ordained member of a religious order.

Before we take instructions from you, Rev. Vitus, please explain why a self-proclaimed ‘religious’, which implies a lay brother, uses the title ‘Rev’ and uses an avatar showing someone wearing a clerical collar.

@Liturgy @holysmoke I don’t know anything about him. I was just being pedantic as usual 😬

@LibbyMag @holysmoke All priests are “Rev”. Vitus is not a member of a religious order.

buying this and then dying immediately and forcing my descendants to finish building it over the next 100 years

This is beautiful

@jenfulwiler PS We had the loan of a first-class relic that we used in our prayers for our daughter. Maybe someone could help you with that?

@jenfulwiler God love you both. I’m so glad that you are in such a tremendously good place (and what a patron!). Advice given to me as a cancer mummy: Stay close to the sacraments Repeat “Jesus I trust in you” Look after your marriage and your other kids. Prayers and love from London

Update on my 19 y.o. daughter who’s battling medulloblastoma cancer: - We are now at St. Jude in Memphis - She’s in the middle of 7 months of hard chemo - We met local priest friends who visit with the sacraments - Every good thing you’ve ever heard about St. Jude is true ❤️

@dz_rebuild @JoLocke1 Disclaimer: he does AQA and I gather the exam being discussed is Edexcel. Good luck! Sometimes exams you feel have gone badly are actually ok

@LibbyMag @JoLocke1 ffs😭 im sure thats great for him and i would be too if it went like that for me but does he do further maths? i find it unfair that people who do further maths mosly get all the As and A stars and just raise the grade boundaries for people who only do maths😭

Sobbing students after A level paper 1 - ever seen anything like it

George Will's son Jon has Down syndrome. In 2013, he wrote this celebrating Jon's 40th birthday.

@DAaronovitch Was his victim handcuffed by the police as she lay dying? That’s why there’s a difference in the coverage 🙄

Barely a month ago this man was imprisoned for the violent rape of a Sikh woman believing that she was a Muslim. No Douglas Murray articles in the Spectator, no Baroness Fox speech in the Lords. No riots. Two tier? Too right bbc.com/news/articles/…

I’d like to know what the BBC policy on honorifics is. It always used to be that everyone except convicts got a title, eg Mr Smith the MP; Bloggs the thief. On @BBCWorldatOne today they referred to “Musk” in one item and “Mr Murray” in another. Why? @elonmusk

@WomBat21204089 @paxangloceltae Interesting. Thanks. Paris and Rome are not

@LibbyMag @paxangloceltae Krakow Zagreb Budapest Ljubljana any of them are better than London

I haven’t commuted into central London for a few weeks so managed to somewhat forget how radicalising an experience it can be. On both trains this AM I was the only Briton - it was not like this pre-2020. A man was smoking a spliff in the carriage and another decided to serenade us with his Bluetooth speaker (his music taste was poor). Multiple fare evaders (reflecting London’s wonderful diversity) at the barriers. When boarding the Underground, we had to listen to this announcement on a loop. ‘Phone theft is common at this station’ every 30 seconds. I’ve never heard the CT/61016 or no smoking announcements that often. This is what I expect in a third world country (although, in fairness, I’ve travelled to some and even they don’t have to warn people not to have their phones out on public transport). We are in living in a first world, highly developed country. It should be safe to stand on a platform inside a transport station *in the capital city* of this advanced economy without being barked at to not have your phone out because it’s so unsafe. Here’s a novel idea: instead of stopping people from having their phones out, how about we robustly deal with phone theft, get BTP onto platforms to rugby tackle the thieves, and lock the scum up for considerable periods as a deterrent to others? Stop dealing with things downstream and making life miserable for the law-abiding country. Tackle problems at source. Tourists hearing this shit must think they’ve accidentally ended up in a failed state.

@EricRSammons I don’t think this is even a lukewarm take 😬

Hot take: Most daily Masses should not include a homily. Its absence would, paradoxically perhaps, better catechize the faithful of the purpose of the Mass.

@DrFrancisYoung Obviously the former as there was no year 0

I had an argument with another historian (in front of the Bishop) about whether the year 1400 was the last year of the 14th or the first year of the 15th century. Stay safe out there, people

Here it is: my 2026 manifesto for the #Makerfield By-Election. Makerfield Great Again! #VoteBinface #MakeYourVoteCount

@CroneThe86880 @Johnsoldear Worse than Classic FM because as well as the above it has to play mediocre music by composers you’ve never heard of in order to ensure women composers are fairly represented.

@Johnsoldear It's turned into Classic FM - a limited repertoire of basic classics, chatty drivel and records chosen by Norman in Hull, whose late mother loved the Three Tenors and wants Nessun Dorma in her memory.

Just heard Georgia Mann on R3 informing us that " Elgar is now most often thought of as the composer of tub- thumping marches". BBC standards are abysmal now, compared to even 10 years ago. They assume the listeners are morons who want easy- listening pap.

If true this would be a huge win for feminism. Women are grossly underrepresented in the dictatorship and authoritarianism fields

A sad and shocking case linked here. Another young man killed in a racist attack but no attention from the media for obvious reasons. (Article is paywalled but there are ways round that.)