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Listen / Read The other day I was telling a friend that I found myself agreeing with much of the noise the clergy had been making about ‘unbridled capitalism’ and the like. I know that plenty of people in different arenas, from columnists to actual economists, are making similar noises, but the bishops have been [...]

Listen / Read Perhaps I’m just going soft but I don’t really see any pressing need to make any particular objections today. Other than the same objections that stand for Thought for the Day generally, of course (which I’ll be writing to the BBC about shortly, as per my pledge).

Listen / Read Oh, come on, what’s the point of offering a Sikh outlook on things if you’re just going to say the same exact useless crap as the Christians and the Jews and the Muslims and the Hindus? Why is it none of you get along when you’re all bleating on about the same [...]

Listen / Read Being as Rev Tilby seems to have no grasp of the horrific realities of this conflict, or the disproportionate nature of Israel’s massacre of Palestinian civilians, I thought I’d provide a slightly different response today.

Listen / Read This was yet another good attempt at saying absolutely fuck all for the best part of three minutes. Really though, what was she going on about? She says “language is getting in the way, and yet it’s the only way we render our experience intelligible”. How about you try to render your [...]

Listen / Read Perhaps, instead of Iran having to go to all the bother of developing nuclear capabilities, we should just give them some of our nukes? We’ve got plenty going spare. It’s the Christian thing to do. Giving our armaments to Israel has worked so well, after all. If they’re our friends, then we [...]

Listen / Read And I sigh yet another listless sigh. I’m trying to google this story about this New York mayor. If it made the press I thought I might have found it online somewhere. I guess it was probably a long time ago now. Hmm, there was something about New York’s mayoral elections in [...]

Listen / Read Well, that was quite a thoughtful reading there by Rhidian Brook. He really gave us something to think about, and he certainly helped me set things in perspective. I particularly like that non-scriptural quote at the end there, what was it? King Lear, that’s right: “Speak what we feel, not what we [...]

Listen / Read This is one of those readings where I try harder to be balanced, and not jump in knees-first with a jerk-off reaction. The reason being that Longley has discussed two related but distinctive ideas and not made it clear as to which idea he envies and admires. While I think we can [...]

Listen / Read What of a load of guff. I really resent giving any afterthought whatsoever to ill-thought readings such as these. We need a miracle! But only Jesus could perform real miracles. But let’s hope for one anyway! What was I saying?

Listen / Read I’m really struggling to argue with the Lord Bishop today. The fact is that all atheists are drunk, promiscuous, STD riddled paragons of perversity.

The BBC is currently resisting calls from the public, the political establishment, and indeed the church, to reverse its decision not to broadcast the DEC’s humanitarian appeal for Gaza. The other broadcasters have broken the rules to air the appeal despite the lacking consensus. It is absolutely clear that the BBC have made a bad [...]

Listen / Read You can’t pick many holes in this sort of reading. At least Sacks had a reason to mention the Holocaust this time, as opposed to just slipping it in there for good measure like he usually does. But of course, it’s the absence of any criticism whatsoever for Israel’s hatred of the [...]

Listen / Read Oh listen, it’s yet another Lord Bishop defending undemocratic privilege and the religious bias at the core of it. What joy it brings me to listen to yet another non-defence of the Parliamentary power held by those who have no right to hold it, made during a party-denominational religio-political broadcast by someone [...]

Listen / Read I think Obama dropped a bit of a bollock with that ‘clenched fist’ statement. He says he wants to start afresh, and bring mutual respect to diplomatic relations, and the first thing he does is point the finger of blame?