Friday last week was a dark day for politics. Conservative MP Sir David Amess, Member of Parliament for Southend West was stabbed whilst holding a constituency surgery at Belfairs Methodist Church Leigh-on-Seaand later died at the scene. Police said there were possible links to Islamic extremism. Sir David AmessCopyright free image from Wikipedia Commons This …
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Keeping the streets safe for women
It has been a bad week for the British police, and the Metropolitan Police in particular. Serving Metropolitan Police officer Wayne Couzens was given a full life sentence last Thursday, 30th September 2021, for charges including the false arrest, kidnapping, rape and murder of Sarah Everard. There are things about the case which give me …
The tragedy of the commons and COP26
Axe-man 'Arry and Burglar Bill This is one of those maths problems that has people with names in alphabetical problems.Axe-man 'Arry and Burglar Bill have been captured fora theft they both did, both are in separate rooms in the police station, they have two choices in getting off: They can either say they know nothing …
Refugees and Kirklees Council, part 2
Last week I wrote an open letter to Kirklees Metropolitan Council about receiving Afghan refugees and referred to the Huddersfield area's long and good history in accepting refugees, linking to the blog post on social media. I got a reply on Twitter. Well it was a link to the latest update from the council. Afghan …
Refugees and Kirklees Council
This blog post takes the form of an open letter to Kirklees Metropolitan Council. The lower panels of the World War I memorial window in Holy Trinity Huddersfield, showing the Belgian flag to the right in the middle panel. There is a refugee crisis going on caused by people wishing to leave Afghanistan following the …
Socialism, a Christian perspective?
This blog is the second part of one I wrote about Christianity and capitalism and has its basis in the same Twitter thread asking if you can be a capitalist and a Christian. One reply was that Christianity is Communism. Image taken from a blog by Island Christian Church Communism I used to be sympathetic …
Capitalism, a Christian perspective?
Can you be a Christian and a capitalist? A question asked on Twitter this week and the answers were as I expected, some not only saying no, but suggesting that the teachings of Jesus are consistent with communism. I will be dealing with the socialist side of things in the second of these two blogs, …
The Stonewall Inn
On this day in 1969, June 28th, Police raided the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighbourhood of Manhattan, New York City USA. One year later on June 27th 1970 were the first gay rights parades were held in Chicago and San Francisco, and a day later, on the anniversary of the Stonewall raid in …
Uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed — Psalm 82:3
Psalm 82 — Psalms of Asaph Jesus quoted verse 6 of this psalm. When accused by the Jewish leaders of blasphemy, calling himself Son of God made him equal with God, they said, Jesus pointed out that in this poem that judges are called gods. Welsh judgesmage from wikimedia commons Asaph had a long career. …
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He’s gone
At 12 noon US Eastern time, 5pm my time, a transition of power occurred. Donald Trump ceased to be the President of the United States of America, succeeded by Joe Biden. Joseph R Biden being inaugurated as President of the USAPicture from the New York Times Things look different already. The new Vice President, Kamala …
