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An Appreciation Of The Papacy of Francis I

3rd May 2025 Always Worth Saying 2285 Comments

Might every age get the Pope it deserves? If so, then what of the Age of Francis I? Jorge Mario Bergoglio, once Archbishop of Buenos Aires and the latest Bishop of Rome, died on Easter [more…]

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Always Worth Saying’s Easter Railway Review

18th April 2025 Always Worth Saying 2438 Comments

Last week’s trip to Albania being too mainstream, this edition of Railway Review (how I yearn for the return of Question Time!) was going to be of an obscure South American mineral line. Observing the [more…]

Christianity

The New Religion

16th December 2024 Jonathon Davies 2437 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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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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Basilica Santuario Santo Stefano – The Seven Churches of Bologna

30th September 2024 Going Postal 1832 Comments

It is a short walk from the twin towers, past the oldest house in Bologna, to Via Santo Stefano. For the most part the journey is under a colonnade of stone, cast in cool shadow [more…]

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American Journey 1952, Part Three – Washington

28th May 2024 Going Postal 2835 Comments

John Doe is Asking Awkward Questions The last thing I expected to pick up in this capital city of a great Republic (“the greatest Republic on God’s Footstool,” as I heard a Senator from Illinois [more…]

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

15th May 2024 Going Postal 2059 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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A View From The Greenhouse; Doctors, Architects, Aspiring DJ’s

16th April 2024 Colin Cross 1869 Comments

They keep turning up, farm implements of indeterminate age, mostly bladed and mostly without shafts. It seems unlikely that his particular scimitar like implement is either a sickle or scythe; I’m guessing it had a [more…]

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A View From (Almost Opposite) The Greenhouse; A Massacre Of Innocents

10th October 2023 Colin Cross 3047 Comments

I’m pretty sure it was one of “The Merry Pranksters” and, if my memory serves (which it rarely does these days unless it’s a Temptations or Bob Dylan lyric, or how much a pint was [more…]

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