Some good news.
Perhaps I should retrain as a leopard tamer.

Column on Pope and gay blessings: 'this is my generation’s cross: to be led by old donkeys determined to wreck their inheritance, to bequeath us a ruin and say, with devilish pride, ‘I built this’.' spectator.co.uk/article/the-po…

Tim Stanley HitchikersPie Govt said it would update the minimum income requirement which has not been updated since 2012 - that MIR works on a combined couple basis

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The seals are open at evensong tonight (Rev6).

In Norse mythology, for comparison, the wolves swallow the sun & moon; the sky splits in two. Mountains fall, men tremble & even the great ash tree shakes…

This is the kind of state overreach that happens through our governance via unscrutinised secondary legislation every day. Credit to Sir Stephen Timms for doing the job MPs are actually supposed to do - scrutinising legislation - that most treat as an irrelevance.

Best comprehensive schools in the UK (acc. to The Times):

1) Jewish
2) Catholic
3) Muslim
4) Catholic
5) Anglican
6) Jewish
7) Jewish
8) Catholic
9) Secular
10) Catholic

Good choice. I’ve said ‘this’ a hell of a lot this year. Might try ‘that’ next year.

Lovely photo of Glenys Kinnock and Great Uncle Michael.

🖊️ 'Boris should turn the tables on this Inquiry' | Writes Tim Stanley telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/12/0…

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Coronation of a prince, perhaps Charles the Bald

BnF MS Latin 1141; Sacramentary of Charles the Bald (?), frg.; 9th century, c.869 CE-870 CE; Palace School of Charles the Bald; f.2v Gallica BnF

The same class who accuse the most milquetoast Christians of living in the Handmaid's Tale have, all this time, been purchasing real estate in Gilead.

Given this week’s weather the start of the meteorological winter today comes as little surprise, with scenes such as Peter Brook’s ‘December - Sheep Coming In’ set to return to the Pennines. (From the ‘Twelve Months of the Year’ series of lithographs, published by Agnews in 1978)

'Whatever...'

Extremely excited that Simon Young's Fairy Census 2 is now out - featuring 500 modern-day fairy encounters. Including one from Suffolk: academia.edu/110124056/Youn…