They take broken things and make them better, rebuilding with care and attention to detail, seeking balance and bringing order and beauty where there was chaos. Can’t we put #TheRepairShop experts in charge of politics?

"One Sunday morning, the sun came up and POP! – out came a tiny and very hungry caterpillar."

Happy Brexit Day everyone!

Happy Tony Robinson Day! 🎵It’s pancake day Yes it’s pancake day Yes it’s p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-pancake day🎵 youtube.com/watch?v=gj_aHC…

Now more than ever, it's vital that people are getting accurate and useful health info. Can you help us by retweeting this and asking your local followers to follow us? It will take you 10 seconds, but will help us to share NHS health info to more people in Glos. Thank you!

Credit where it is due: Bishop's attack Boris Johnson's 'risible' defense of Classic Dom. Excellent. theguardian.com/politics/2020/…

It's International Dravet Syndrome Awareness Day! Please help raise awareness by sharing this five-fact thread 👇 1 - Dravet Syndrome is a life-limiting #epilepsy that affects around 1 in 15,000 children and adults in the UK. 1/5 #DravetSyndrome #DravetSyndromeAwareness

I'm wondering why the mask debate isn't livelier here, given scientific opinion and our lack of masks. Why is it not like the lockdown debate in March, given that tens of thousands of lives may be at stake, if you believe some of the projections? 1/2

Ed Balls #10LongYears

Book #giveaway: "Eastern Christianity: A Reader"—filled with new English translations of Syriac, Armenian, Georgian, Arabic, Coptic, and Ethiopic Christian texts. RT & follow to enter. Winner receives a #free copy. Ends 11/9 at 1pm ET. US, Canada, & Europe only.

Today we mark the Feast of St. Hild (also spelled St. Hilda), Abbess of Whitby, to whom our wonderful college is dedicated.

Clear your throats, churchgoers. It’s coming. #Advent

"Seventeenth-century Puritan divine Richard Baxter writes, 'It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but the well reading of a few, could he be sure to have the best.'” Karen Swallow Prior (Notorious KSP) plough.com/en/topics/cult…

Good news for #Dravet! 👏 👏 Making progress for true disease-modifying therapy… -substantial #seizure reduction, particularly among the highest dose (70mg) group -non-seizure improvements in speech, behavior, cognition not seen with other therapies -well tolerated I’ll be

Following on from our reporting on restructuring in CofE Christian Selvaratnam writes for us this week, in favour of ‘effective church-plants spreading their impact, and diverse networks of churches reproducing renewal through the parish system’. On amalgamation: churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2024/…

my mate who works in the royal mint told me about this astonishing feature on the new £50 notes and we've been avidly waiting for a king charles fifty to test it out - today we got one and can confirm that it does indeed work

'O Earendel, brightest of angels, sent to mankind over middle-earth...' It's the winter solstice, when the medieval church sang 'O Oriens' - a prayer for light in darkness. It inspired an Anglo-Saxon poem, which in turn inspired Tolkien's myth of Eärendil aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-an…

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde: "The vast majority of immigrants are not criminals…may I ask you to have mercy Mr. President on those in our communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away."

Fully 75% of English words come from other languages. English has taken most of its vocabulary from French, Latin and elsewhere — but what if it hadn’t? What would a “pure” English look like? No need to guess — it exists and it's called “Anglish.” Here’s how it works…🧵

There is hardly any fraud in the disability benefits system. In response to my parliamentary questions, the DWP says just 0.2% of personal independence payment (PIP) spending is due to fraud. Today I called for an end to the scapegoating of disabled people on benefits.