Interested to see what part of the EHCP process Ministers may think we don’t need - is it where: - we identify all the child’s special educational needs? - we specify the provision reasonably required to meet those needs? - the child gets the right to attend a suitable school?

Stipend augmentation by the clergy reaches new levels:

With Welby gone, it seems the energy behind LLF is draining away too.

Please do keep me and the parish in your prayers as I prepare to be installed later today as Priest-in-Charge of St Paul’s West Hackney ❤️🙏🏽

LLF is dead. The next Archbishop of Canterbury should marry a same sex couple in Westminster Abbey in his or her first week of incumbency. Apologise that it hasn’t happened sooner. Then let the chips fall where they may.

Bayeux Tapestry to return to UK after 900 years bbc.in/44Clqti

For centuries, Canterbury Cathedral has been the heart of English Christian history—the site of Thomas Becket’s martyrdom and the destination of countless pilgrimages. Yesterday, it hosted its first Catholic Mass in over 400 years. History isn’t dead. It’s waking up.

BREAKING NEWS!! ... The United Nations is calling for the UK Government to stop The Labour Party's Universal Credit (PIP) Bill because it will ‘deepen the signs of regression’ in disabled people’s human rights. Tell your MP to protect our human rights by voting NO tomorrow! Use the

BREAKING! Citing “credible information” that the Universal Credit Bill seemed likely to worsen the rights of disabled people, UN Committee intervenes following approach from Disabled People’s Organisations including Disability Wales 💥 theguardian.com/society/2025/j…

(Trump) Supreme Court Clears Way for Mass Firings at Federal Agencies nytimes.com/2025/07/08/us/… via @NYTimes

Reform will still not be able to form a government. Given the fact the Tories could be annihilated, there are few places to go for Reform when it comes to coalitions or deals. Speaking to Sky’s Beth Rigby, First Minister Eluned Morgan said she “wouldn't touch Reform with a barge

“Welsh is of this soil, this island, the senior language of the men of Britain; Welsh is beautiful.” - J.R.R. Tolkien on Cymraeg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

My MP has written back to say he will ‘contact the relevant department on your behalf and raise your concerns’ regarding the very late publication of the ‘Annual’ Learning from Lives and Deaths - LeDeR researchers report. Maybe more of us could raise the flag 🚩

The first ep of Poldark reboot is repeated on BBC4 at 10.15 tonight. I play Judd Paynter. Great fun. ‘Tsn’t right, Tisn’t proper’

I’m in Belfast!!

Today’s committee stage of the welfare reform bill begins with Sian Berry moving her amendment which would uprate basic rate of Universal Credit for five years. Looks like Sian Berry will move for division. The Greens will hope for support from Labour rebels

Interesting to see disability minister Sir Stephen Timms + work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall in discussions on frontbench with senior government whip Chris Elmore. He then goes to talk to deputy speaker Judith Cummins MP who is chairing commons committee stage of welfare bill

🚨The UN Committee on the Rights of Disabled People has asked the UK Government for details about the impact of its Welfare Bill. The intervention comes after DPOs, including DW, warned the Bill seemed likely to worsen disabled people's rights. theguardian.com/society/2025/j…

.Zarah Sultana MP: "Errol Graham.. Jodey Whiting.. Stephen Smith.. these aren't just names, they are the human cost of decisions made in this place, that.. contributed to over 1m premature deaths.. driven by poverty & austerity, & today the govt presses ahead with more of the same"

“The Church will stand up for the environment even when it requires the courage to oppose the destructive power of the princes of this world.” — Pope Leo api.omarshehata.me/substack-proxy…