2.5yo nephew just FaceTimed me urgently to ask who my favourite Gladiator is. I love the auntie life.
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2.5yo nephew just FaceTimed me urgently to ask who my favourite Gladiator is. I love the auntie life.
I’ve written for @theosthinktank.bsky.social about Ramadan, informal RE and the great religious educator that is Pep Guardiola.
I remember the first World Book Day, no dressing up and we all got a £1 book voucher a small book of recommendations of other books with a foreword by Peter Mandelson??? Anyway THAT was New Labour.
Not now, courage to change the things I can, I'm worrying about things I cannot change.
It feels less than ideal that people over on X are getting Gr*k to guess the identity of those arrested re Chinese intelligence, based on prompts about ages of MP's other halves. Can AI be in contempt of court?!
I'd add to this (having seen some wild comments from fans on the other site) that football clubs holding community iftars is a good thing, actually, just like it's lovely when they have carol services.
That's so lovely to hear Kevin, thank you!
Very much self appointed but yes.
I’ve written for @theosthinktank.bsky.social about Ramadan, informal RE and the great religious educator that is Pep Guardiola.
Important to remember that the people most enthusiastic about bombing Iran are almost always the people most hateful towards refugees.
I have a 'November brunch dinner' in the diary because no one has changed the group chat name since we went for brunch, once, in November half a decade ago.
Some great suggestions on this - we watched Astrid et Raphaëlle this weekend (with subtitles) and would recommend.
Everybody Get Up (and hear your knees groan)
Obsessed with this advert for Five, now they look more like the Y5 dads got together for a PTA fundraiser.
I've spent an above average amount of time with my parents already this year, and we're fast running out of things to watch together. We've watched basically every crime drama that has Scandi noir vibes but no subtitles & I peaked by getting them into Slow Horses - suggestions for what next?!
I love the idea of some hotel receptionist saying “And we’re looking forward to welcoming Lord Mandelson next week as well“ and Hoyle saying “wait what”
Remember when Dennis Skinner was kicked out of the Commons for calling Cameron "dodgy Dave"
such a stupid country. 'yeah we've got an insurgent far right party leader. he used to be the desperately unpopular chairman of Southampton. he's called Rupert.'
Powerful moment in the Commons as Starmer calls on Farage to apologise for the Reform councillor who shared a post calling for Labour MP Natalie Fleet to be shot, pointing out that when Farage faced death threats Starmer condemned them. Farage totally ignores that & asks about the Chago Islands.
I think you should be disqualified from opining on low birth rates if you bought your house last millennium and haven’t spent a week in the cesspit of dating apps these days.
NEW: JD Vance flew to Rome to formally invite Pope Leo XIV to join America’s 250th anniversary celebration.
The first American pope has declined — days after rejecting President Trump’s “Board of Peace” invitation.
On July 4, he’ll be in Lampedusa, standing with migrants.
Lest it need saying, the problem is bigger than one party or one administration.
For Reasons, I have found myself at two different BCP services this week and there's something so beautiful about hearing "what comfortable words," on your lunch break, like a liturgical rest in the middle of the rest of the day.
NewsNation graphic: DECLINED BOARD OF PEACE INVITATION -- Pope Leo, Macron, Starmer, Xi
choose your fighter
Last year mine looked like a Batman symbol, so I got off lightly with a little cross this year.
In a massive win for religious literacy, a total of nine people kindly told me yesterday that I had something on my forehead. Next year I'll go for double figures.
Yesterday my friend told me about her PHILOSOPHY students all using ai for their assignments and like come the fuck on man you’re in Uni doing the subject thats Thinking about Thinking and u refuse to Think
This sort of framing of stories about 'left behind' places is getting very tired. How have they been 'failed' by politics? They are the product of political choices - which organisations like the BBC have often failed to explain to people.
Real sign of the times/broken Britain etc that this piece doesn't mention Editors even once.
'You hate nothing you have made' gets me every single year.