Catching up on #GeneralSynod and reading comments below!😟 The CoE in its admin structures are often a hostile environment for women. Grateful to BishopSarah for her abiding vulnerability and tender Mother heart in shepherding this broken, contemptuous The Church of England!

A fine summation of synod. shared-conversations.com/2025/02/16/liv…

My brief reflection of The Church of England General Synod Safeguarding - Wrong decision Working Class Vocations - Encouraging Processes - Constipating Clive Billenness - Devastating

OCD is one evil bastard, and this is a great account of what it's like to live with it. theguardian.com/books/2025/feb…

Big new article in The Times magazine today for Sir John Mitting’s breakfast reading. archive.ph/fRIw2 #spycops

My experience of reporting on welfare cuts over the last 12 years is that they result in very high levels of human misery and don't save anything like as much as they were intended to - especially when other costs are factored in. I don't expect Reeves' to be much different

ITV 9pm tonight #spycops Get your popcorn ready and be prepared to swear at the tele 🍿🤬

Women like Alison & Helen were deceived into intimate relationships with #spycops police who'd stolen the identities of dead children in order to create new aliases. Some officers even fathered kids with the women they spied on #GMB on what was state sanctioned rape & abuse

Inspirational heroic women ❤️✊✊🏾✊🏼

Church people! Please listen to this. open.spotify.com/episode/3LZMBx…

Am part way through this and cannot recommend it highly enough. The tenacity and courage of these women is incredible. It's also a brilliantly made programme - wonderfully told.

In fairness, this is the way I feel about PE

Therapist: ‘What do you think is causing your anxiety and depression? Don’t worry, this is a safe space’ *30 POLICE WITH TASERS SMASH THE DOORS IN AND SOME ARTISTS AND A NAKED DUDE RUN PAST SCREAMING* Me: ‘Gee, I’m not sure’

Ah man I was *this close* to jumping into some Discourse on here and then I remembered life is precious and a thing worth enjoying

The Conclave is way too quick, before appointing a new Pope they should wait for 18 months while an assortment of ageing lay misfits desperately tries to keep the show on the road as they place increasingly desperate adverts in The Church Times

No, it hasn’t.

95% chance of wrecking this prestigious arena . Always a 5% chance of not being Stronger Harder Faster doing Songs That Mean Something. But ready like a boxer . #London

In my fundamentalist days I met this man, read his books, and have seen first hand the devastation his theology wreaks on people. Make no mistake, Christo-fascism is on the rise, and it’s here in the uk where Wilson has devotees too. It must be rooted out.