Not the data behind this story per se, but have you come across the Talking Jesus research? Some really interesting data on how open people are to talking about faith… talkingjesus.org
The world's richest man - perhaps the richest man who has ever lived - gloating about shutting down aid for the world's poorest people. All while posing as the champion of the common man.
The great lie of populism in its most naked and morally putrid form.
"If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things — praying, working, teching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting our friends over a pint and a game of darts — not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds. —CS Lewis
tapping the sign
Photograph of Gisèle Pelicot
This is the person of the year.
To the people scooping up sackfuls of shitty & unhelpful arguments from other place & dragging them over here so you can point at them…
Yes.
I know you want to be seen to have been on the right side of the culture wars.
But still.
Leave that stuff where it was.
Let it die there.
"Forty per cent of men under the age of twenty five in prison today were in care. For me they have already been failed by society."
Prison reform campaigner, Matthew Torbitt, explains why early Government intervention could prevent imprisonment and save money.
#Newsnight
Gutted about the assisted dying bill. Just praying now that they don’t extend it past terminal illness. The world has got a little more unsafe for disabled people and those with mental health issues. Suicidal people NEED everyone to help them resist killing themselves, not be encouraged to do it.
A piece that completely misunderstands the role of religion AND non-religion in decision-making.
Faith isn’t an exotic factor on top of a neutral base. All of us draw on our metaphysical commitments when we make ethical decisions, consciously or not. Nobody stands nowhere.
2:30pm
I’m not an MP any more so don’t vote tomorrow - and was absent for the 2015 vote because of cancer treatment. But I’ve followed this closely, read the Bill, read the briefings, thought long and hard and I’d be voting no to assisted suicide tomorrow if I were still an MP. 1/7
We just had beef or salmon at ours.
Defence secretary somewhat overstates his role!
The inheritance tax thing is hurting the Prime Minister as "Starmer" rhymes with "Farmer" and "Harmer." Given this, here are other things the PM should be wary about legislating on, in future: llamas. Robert Palmer. BBC One drama. Michelle Obama. Bananas In Pyjamas.
Oh….
I deactivated my account in the other place today.
