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Pastoral Letter on Assisted Dying

9th April 2025 Going Postal 2483 Comments

On Sundays, the priest preaches a sermon about half-way through Mass.  Depending on how good a speaker he is, this is an opportunity to pick up some insights on today’s gospel, or alternatively to drift [more…]

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Renditioning Dissidents

15th January 2025 Going Postal 2839 Comments

28 December 2024 While Kenyan authorities deny their involvement in renditioning Ugandan opposition leader, Kizza Besigye, a blood-stained history of collaboration in Western-backed renditions speaks dubiously for itself. Above: Ugandan opposition leader, Dr Kizza Besigye [more…]

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The New Religion

16th December 2024 Jonathon Davies 2436 Comments

I myself am I Christian, and the more I see of the world today the more convinced I am that for some people science has replaced religion, and in turn become its own religion. You [more…]

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Enemies Within: Mouchard!

7th December 2024 Always Worth Saying 2627 Comments

Autumn 1899, just weeks before the turn of a new century, saw two men released from Pentonville Prison on London’s Caledonian Road. Jailed seven years previously following an anarchist plot in Walsall, some continued to [more…]

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Public Perception of Kenya’s Judicial Independence

27th November 2024 Going Postal 2829 Comments

In recent years, the Kenyan judiciary has faced intensified scrutiny and criticism from political figures, reflecting a broader public distrust of the judiciary. As a political scientist examining the evolving dynamics between Kenya’s judiciary and [more…]

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A Natural End to The Human Experience?

26th October 2024 Always Worth Saying 2254 Comments

On the other week’s BBC Question Time from Rotherham, when the subject turned to ‘assisted dying’, a gentleman in the audience commented politics and religion do not mix and religion should be kept out of [more…]

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OTF Party: What Makes/Made Us Quintessentially English/British?

15th May 2024 Going Postal 2051 Comments

“Being British is all about driving a German car to an Irish theme pub to drink Belgian beer then going home buying an Indian takeaway to sit on a Swedish sofa in front of a [more…]

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Are all civilisations doomed to fail?

28th January 2024 Grimy Miner 2103 Comments

  Throughout history we have seen great civilisations rise, decline and fall. History has this annoying habit of repeating itself, none more so than in the case of human endeavour. As someone famous once said [more…]

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A View From The Greenhouse; Please Make It Stop!

11th April 2023 Colin Cross 2314 Comments

Finally got the layout finished with the completion of the four (slightly) raised beds. In the final analysis (for this season at least) I decided not to permanently fix them down with corner pegs as [more…]

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