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entirelygill.bsky.social @entirelygill.bsky.social · 3h

And while in Star Wars the Alliance are the Good Guys, whenever I hear of the CoE Alliance, I always get the Imperial March lodged in my head. Inexplicable.

a group of stormtroopers are walking down a hallway .

Alt: a group of stormtroopers are walking down a hallway .

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entirelygill.bsky.social @entirelygill.bsky.social · 3h

I'm tired, I've got a cold, it's been a long day at work, and now I have 2 Scouts runs and a choir rehearsal to do.
I have neither the time nor the energy for whatever nonsense CEEC / Alliance are up to today.

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 22h

For those who don’t work in youth work, it’s hard to describe how bleak it is out there.

We just pulled the rug on a generation of young people and are now shrugging our shoulders and hoping social media is the cause of all ills because then it feels less of our fault

Simon Parker @simonparker.bsky.social · 1d

The absolute bloody vandalism of austerity in one chart. Good analysis of the overall picture here.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 1d

I've spent *weeks* working on this special report for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social on GB News co-owner Paul Marshall – and the astonishing, unprecedented influence network he's built on the UK's right. There's never been anything like it before. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-p...

Paul Marshall, the man who owns the right

The multimillionaire controls a network of news channels, publications and think tanks that the left could only dream of. If Reform or the Tories win the next election, he will become the country’s mo...

www.thenewworld.co.uk

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entirelygill.bsky.social @entirelygill.bsky.social · 1d

....and which received a contribution of £1m from Marshall’s Sequoia Trust".
Biggar, of course, is one of the driving forces behind opposition to the CoE's fund for healing, repair and justice - a response to the Church's involvement in chattel slavery. 2/2

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entirelygill.bsky.social @entirelygill.bsky.social · 1d

Another great article on Marshall's influence.
And <niche CoE relevance>
"His ARC organisation has a research subsidiary, for which the peer and Oxford University professor emeritus Nigel Biggar serves as director....1/2

James Ball @jamesrball.com · 1d

You might think controlling GB News gives you huge influence over UK politics – especially on the right. But that's just the tip of the iceberg, as we reveal in this week's issue of @thenewworldmag.bsky.social

Full story: www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-p...

A network/ownership diagram showing a range of organisations controlled by Paul Marshall or his associates, or which receive donations from them

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 4d

WELL THEN IT'S NOT MEANINGFUL IS IT, NICK www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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entirelygill.bsky.social @entirelygill.bsky.social · 4d

"Let's talk clean eating!"

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 5d

Really not good at all that the Christian Right feels emboldened enough to parade in Soho in paramilitary uniforms. www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/10/k...

Evangelical 'King's Army' group disrupts traffic in historic LGBTQ+ London district

A right-wing, evangelical group calling itself the King's Army blocked traffic on Old Compton Street in Soho while chanting anti-LGBTQ+ slogans.

www.thepinknews.com

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entirelygill.bsky.social @entirelygill.bsky.social · 5d

Exactly. Cathedrals have long had art installations. Sometimes they resonate with people, sometimes they don't. That's really all there is to it.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 5d

We need so, so, much more of this, in the UK as well as America, and so many other places. We need politicians prepared to actually step up and genuinely, wholeheartedly, support trans and non-binary individuals.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 5d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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entirelygill.bsky.social @entirelygill.bsky.social · 5d

Have no strong views on the Canterbury cathedral graffiti, so I should probably hand my Church of England membership card in.

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Corodon @thecorodon.bsky.social · 5d

Exodus 8:2
"If you refuse to let them go, I will send a plague of frogs on your whole country."

Reverend Jesus "Ł" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 6d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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entirelygill.bsky.social @entirelygill.bsky.social · 5d

One for the #SpyCops inquiry followers.
And if you're not following, you really should be!
Man convicted of 38 paedophile offences revealed as police informer who spied on UK activists www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Man convicted of 38 paedophile offences revealed as police informer who spied on UK activists

Trial of Nick Gratwick, 68, who schemed to rape children as young as six, exposes previous role among green protesters

www.theguardian.com

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entirelygill.bsky.social @entirelygill.bsky.social · 5d

The funeral outfit is bought, and in true old lady fashion I am treating myself to lunch in M&S while I try to come to terms with the fact that I'm really not the size or shape I thought I was. 😭

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entirelygill.bsky.social @entirelygill.bsky.social · 5d

Goodness me, I strongly dislike clothes shopping.

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.bsky.social · 5d

Regardless of what one thinks of the Greens and Zack Polanski, there is something refreshing and much needed about seeing a politician name far-right discourse as it is

No more euphemising, no more "populism", "legitimate concerns" etc - accurate & damning depictions instead as needed

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 5d

Greens growing. Reform ratttled.

PS - I changed my name back to my family's original Jewish name because I'm proud of being Jewish. If Tice think that makes me a weirdo, I think that makes him an antisemite.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Tice "green party leader Zack Polanski is a weirdo. Changed his name, claimed hypnosis could increase women's breast size, thinks me should compete in women's sport, thinks women can have a penis. Other than that he's fine. Vote Green. Get weirdo."

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Alice Goodman @revdalicegoodman.bsky.social · 6d

Church of England take note.

Robert G. Callahan, II ⚖️ 📚 ⚖️ 📚 @rcallahanwaco.bsky.social · 9d

When churches start using the language of capitalism to describe community, don’t be surprised when discipleship sounds like a franchise.

You can’t preach stewardship while selling ownership. Pick a kingdom.

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entirelygill.bsky.social @entirelygill.bsky.social · 6d

Yes I have them on prescription, and they have absolutely changed my life in terms of reducing pain and making me more able to function.
But they don't remove the problem altogether, sadly.

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entirelygill.bsky.social @entirelygill.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you!

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entirelygill.bsky.social @entirelygill.bsky.social · 6d

Now onto the third day of this migraine.
Safe to say it's not doing a huge amount for my positive outlook.
Ow.

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entirelygill.bsky.social @entirelygill.bsky.social · 7d

Younger son managed to drop a fork on my foot pointy side down last night (yes it really hurt) and now I look like I've been attacked by the world's smallest vampire.

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entirelygill.bsky.social @entirelygill.bsky.social · 8d

Initial critic of UPF who then went on to develop fancy UPF to be sold in M&S offers criticism of fellow critic of UPF*.
Meanwhile, those of us interested in actual evidence-based advice allow ourselves a cup of tea and a biscuit.
*Tbf, Wicks *is* scare-mongering.

Screenshot of a headline from the Independent which says Gut-health guru Tim Spector hits back at Joe Wicks' new documentary and says he is "fear-mongering".
Comment: What Joe Wicks gets wrong about protein bars and UPFs.
Underneath the headline is a person in gym gear lifting weights.

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 8d

God bless The Church Times for their ongoing insistence on responding moderately but forcefully to the Reverend Canon Nigel Biggar’s nonsense. www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

Even given all that Biggar writes about the universality of slavery and the complicity of Africans, three things might be said. First, Britain played a key part and, however others may want to respond to their own history, it is morally responsible to face up to our own heritage. Second, as a Tory, he might have made more of Burke’s view that society is a partnership not just between the living, but between the living, the dead, and those still to be born. Third, guilt is not the only spur to action. There are the obligations that we owe one another irrespective of any personal responsibility for atrocities in the past.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 9d

i genuinely think we underestimate the level of conflict that may arise between the CoE and Reform UK + Jenrick wing of the Tories

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 9d

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

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