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This blessing was a guide from which we knew we were led- the assurance of the prayer of the parents who went with us, and the certainty that this prayer carried the blessing of the Redeemer.
I will never forget, with such devotion and such inner application father and mother gave to us children, when we left, especially when it was a great farewell, when they drew with the consecrated water the cross on the forehead, mouth and chest.
Lovely from Joseph Ratzinger, in German prose, on the Sign of the Cross.
Incredibly powerful front page from the Sunday Post
‘These are the faces of the close to 200 women killed by men in Scotland over the last 16 years. Many were murdered in the one place they should feel completely safe - their own home. Today, we ask for your help in ending misogynistic violence’
For the day that is in it. Happy Valentine’s Day. From Elizabeth Browning.
Photo of Frederick Douglass, who some say was the most photographed person of the 19th century
Happy birthday to one of the greatest, Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery, he didn't know his actual birthday, but chose to celebrate it on this day.
Please read his books and essays; please teach your children his story when they are old enough to understand.
Justice minister says cases like Chloe Mitchell's should not be 'held hostage'.
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I would just reiterate, that it seems unlikely that I, Just A Guy, A Regular Guy, knew more in-depth detail about Peter Mandelson's links to Jeffrey Epstein than the Prime Minister off the United Kingdom who was at the time considering appointing him as Ambassador to the United States.
Not just the arrogance of the Labour oligarchy and their protection and promotion of the charlatan Mandelson, but also the English media that considered it a too impolite matter to pursue until a few days ago is the scandal.
Basically agree with Nietzsche. Or more recently Alasdair MacIntyre. ‘Critical, pluralistic, and inclusive’ in the context of secular humanism are used only as self refuting slogans for the manager class.
Can remember also this speaker saying “a cloud of gas, meeting another cloud of gas, and exploding” was ridiculous and therefore God exists.
Not intelligible, to spell it out particularly for secular humanism, ‘critical, pluralistic and inclusive’ doesn’t exist in itself.
Nevertheless, ‘critical, pluralistic and inclusive’ can be adequately achieved within the framework of an initiation into a traditional denominational education. Total bourgeois speciousness to say it cannot. Indeed, not even intelligible without it.
Thinking back to the school I went to, I’m still shocked and disturbed at the type of ‘outside religious group’ we were left exposed to.
One speaker called a teacher, checking in on an unsupervised (!) session, satanic, when they left, for interrupting them.
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There’s now a clear double standard in official Northern Ireland’s George Best cult, which unfortunately nothing can be done about because of Here reasons.
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International law governing conflict isn’t just “at a breaking point.” It was intentionally destroyed to protect Israel’s war on Gaza.
Happy Candlemas to all who celebrate!
It's rare to see how lobbyists operate. But the Epstein-Mandelson correspondence shows us what happens all the time: plutocrats and government ministers conspiring against the public interest. This is why all lobbying should be in the public domain, but despite Labour and Con promises, it's not. 🧵
Remember that Mandelson quote? "We are intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich, as long as they pay their taxes". By "we" he meant the Labour government. Turns out that he - as a government minister - was lobbying on behalf of his filthy rich chums to ensure they paid less tax.
RTE’s These Sacred Vows really went to town on the vulgar, vapid materialist Irish type abroad huh.
Guns N’Roses Knocking on Heavens Door is at least five minutes too long…Basically a bathetic jam session.
every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds
These are concepts that presume that there is some point in which we can sit on judgement on each, when mathematics, physics and the humanities rightly eschew the notion.
Love how haunting this Aeschylus edition is.
Britain has a genuinely fantastic literature and literary culture, but the deference over gay characters being declared outside the text and so forth shamed it.
Rowling would sooner post “Trans women are women” than retroactively declare there is at least one working class character in the text but is in no way inferable from it, in a double reflection of her attitude towards credit for actual product.
Here for Gueye reinvention as alternating winger at age 36.
The values of the world represented are actually something morally similar pre-democratic Classical Athens, an Aristocratic slave society, so this is good?
