Which gives me an opportunity to again draw attention to Archbishop Laud's hopes for a 'Union of the Churches of the Northern Kingdoms'.

I have resorted to wearing my MEng gown as an extra layer to try and keep warm.

Our parliament shames us.

A Practical Book for Practical People

The work canteen had shepherd’s pie and apple crumble today. Elite.

Good riddance. This was always a terrible idea which wouldn’t have made any difference to tackling illegal migration. Starmer just lurches from one appalling misjudgment to the next.

Why would any Christian want to praise Rhodesia, a state based on an ideology of racial supremacy? Protestant churches - not least Anglicans - and the RCC consistently challenged minority rule and racial ideology. And Zimbabwe remains a Protestant-majority society.

Imagine thinking this needed to be changed because you discovered some random liturgy from the 3rd century named after a Hippopotamus or something.

Seen in the fleet chaplain office - An Anglican Royal Canadian Navy Chaplain celebrates North End Holy Communion in the deck of a Ship, with the altar up against a cannon.

Lord Offord isn't the younger son of a duke or marquess.

Note the alternative-world modernity, large, stately buildings with clear literate signs, huge windows, all in tune with the lamp-posts and trams. Modern doesn't necessarily mean bare concrete and rough, bossy crudity

The first three weeks of this year have seen farewells to the rector, the assistant curate, and my old university chaplain. Three CofE ministers who arrived within a few months of each other in 2020/1 and have all - in their own ways - been very influential on me in that time.

New: person who ran you over turns out to be the attending physician at the hospital.

Ringing Lepton Little Bob Maximus on cross-and-stretch handbells in positions 9 and 10. (Argh!)

They were right.

All of these people suddenly turning around saying 'I'm shocked, SHOCKED to find the US being hostile to Britain' amuse me. They have been reducing us to a not-particularly-glorified colony since WWII, with the snivelling consent of our deluded elites. You only just noticed?

US threats against Greenland is affecting everyday life. This morning, Orla Joelsen took me to a service at Hans Egede Church in Nuuk. As we sang the final hymn, several members of the congregation were visibly moved. Orla translated and explained: A house built on rock cannot

Beautiful and rather moving to watch a friend be radicalised against Simon Jenkins in real time.