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From N’orn Ireland, got lost in Tower Hamlets. Meet me at 56th and Wabasha. Ex-evangelical

London UK
Joined June 2012
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You do not get this witless idiot on TV behaving like this unless a lot of important and influential people have made some very specific choices
“They are weak and woke.” “There is room certainly for being more woke.” Sunday Times columnist Matthew Syed and Chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee Emily Thornberry MP debate which direction the US Democratic Party should take. #Newsnight
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Thats it, the whole political spectrum, perfect.
On the #BBCLauraK panel... Historian Simon Schama Conservative peer Baroness Bertin Retail entrepreneur Theo Paphitis Sunday 9am @BBCOne @BBCiPlayer
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I really hate to be this way. But this clip re-surfaced and all I did was look up where I could buy this Charlie Kirk hot sauce, and I looked up locations on the website. It's only available at one Seed To Table location in Florida. Every chance this woman gets she plugs something: merch, a book, or hot sauce. She lives in Arizona, but does her grocery shopping in Florida?
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Remember when this fella pretended to be sleeping rough in the wild but actually stayed in hotels, then got an OBE? This tweet is an exact continuation of this survival instinct. Which to his credit, has worked for his career.
Brand’s faith seemed genuine to me at the time when I was a guest at his private baptism. I have attended a few now. Even visiting in prisons with people who have committed terrible crimes. It's part of our calling as men and women of faith, to love and serve anyone. It is the sick that need healing. Judgement is for the courts and God… I wouldn’t want to ever discourage someone’s coming to faith. It is right that justice has now been served. I can’t imagine how hard this time has been for the victims, the heroes of the day.
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Men (especially in ministry) , if you have any other response to Brand other than to comfort and commend his victims, and condemn both him and the systems that enabled him, shut up
Replying to @danjohnsonhymns
It does seem many men leave it to woman to do the church's work with relation to abuse. I'm so thankful and in awe of all the women over the years who have bravely spoken out against abuse, oftentimes whilst rightly sitting outside Christendom. teapawt.net/UrbanMinistryUK/status…
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Everyone needs to know how common the horrific practice of older men introducing underage teen boys to prostitution is and how while its imo clearly child abuse its also clearly grooming the boy to treat women as objects and shock absorbers in the future. mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-n…
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NHS England still exists, some 20 months after Starmer announced - to much fanfare - its abolition for the same reason so much of government fails: for ministers it's all about eye-catching 'announcables' without any attention given to delivery. Starmer went out of his way to pose as the sensible adult in the room but didn't bother to do any serious implementation planning around how to pay for/achieve the redundancies and all the rest. This is the result
Scoop: Civil Servants at the DHSC & NHSE had an all-staff call on the abolition of NHS England. Safe to say they aren't enthused...
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Oh it’s ‘BRAND’ now, is it? Smacks of the King suddenly calling his own brother ‘Andrew Mountbatten Windsor’, like he’d never met the guy and didn’t know ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING.
Brand’s faith seemed genuine to me at the time when I was a guest at his private baptism. I have attended a few now. Even visiting in prisons with people who have committed terrible crimes. It's part of our calling as men and women of faith, to love and serve anyone. It is the sick that need healing. Judgement is for the courts and God… I wouldn’t want to ever discourage someone’s coming to faith. It is right that justice has now been served. I can’t imagine how hard this time has been for the victims, the heroes of the day.
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The abolition of NHS England wasn’t necessarily ‘bad policy’ - it had been circulating for years and, under Simon Stevens, it has become a real and rival power base to DHSC - but its justification “world’s biggest quango” failed to understand the inherent skills the NHS *needs*
NHS England still exists, some 20 months after Starmer announced - to much fanfare - its abolition for the same reason so much of government fails: for ministers it's all about eye-catching 'announcables' without any attention given to delivery. Starmer went out of his way to pose as the sensible adult in the room but didn't bother to do any serious implementation planning around how to pay for/achieve the redundancies and all the rest. This is the result
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Next trust board meeting is 12 Nov 2026 Quite a pivotal matter of public interest. given the full investigation report isn't public, but it seems *Medical Examiner* documents were in a shared drive without proper access/editing safeguards Uggh teapawt.net/SkyNews/status/2118711…
An independent investigation has found maternity files at Nottingham University Hospitals were intentionally deleted. Sky's Ashish Joshi reports on the data breach
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Sometimes politicians ask civil servants to do things that are ill thought through and cannot work. They then blame the civil service when they don’t. I imagine this is a good example
Scoop: Civil Servants at the DHSC & NHSE had an all-staff call on the abolition of NHS England. Safe to say they aren't enthused...
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NEW: Health secretary Yvette Cooper insisted on Tuesday the new quango to house NHS England staff was "temporary". But on a call the next day NHS staff were told it's not a "time-limited organisation" and there weren't "firm dates around that" hsj.co.uk/policy-and-regulat…
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Scoop: Civil Servants at the DHSC & NHSE had an all-staff call on the abolition of NHS England. Safe to say they aren't enthused...
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The Book of Revelation is set within the context of the Roman Empire, which ended more than 1500 years ago, so, no, we aren’t.
We are now officially living in the book of Revelation
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My latest for @CTmagazine (and unrelated to election news): Influential UK preacher Steve Timmis, who was ousted as head of Acts 29, a major church-planting agency in 2020 amid allegations of spiritual abuse, is now facing charges for rape. christianitytoday.com/2026/1…
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"Avrei potuto vincere la guerra del Vietnam in una settimana. Hanno continuato a bombardare le foreste per anni invece di puntare su Ho Chi Minh City". Ho Chi Minh City (allora Saigon) era la capitale del Vietnam del Sud, alleato degli USA nella guerra.
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One of the smartest signs in the history of protests. lol. He can’t decide whether he can arrest her or not.
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My favorite story in the Bible is where a disabled man asked Jesus to heal him, and Jesus asked to see his insurance card first. But the man was uninsured, so Jesus told him to get fucked and get a job.
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