JD Vance has signed the death warrant of the status quo

Feb 16, 2025 by

by Brendan O’Neill, spiked: His intellectual waterboarding of Europe’s elites was a joy to watch. Well, that was a delicious spectacle. America’s self-made VP gloriously roasting the wizened technocrats of Europe. A Yank from...

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“Welcome to the Future”

Feb 16, 2025 by

by Anglican Futures: It’s not often that Synod offers a glimpse of the future, but perhaps today was one of those days.  Predictably, it wasn’t the Church of England, or even a member of the Church of England, that provided the...

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Patients deserve better than this slapdash assisted dying bill

Feb 16, 2025 by

by Rachel Clarke, Sunday Times: One palliative care doctor who gave evidence at the committee stage of the bill sets out her concerns In matters of life and death in a hospital, hot emotion helps no one. When a doctor is engulfed by the...

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As Synod debates safeguarding, Ian Paul says Archbishop of York should stand aside from ministry

Feb 16, 2025 by

from TWR-UK: Ian, a member of General Synod and a member of the Archbishops’ Council tells Dave Piper he has written an open letter to Archbishop Stephen Cottrell, raising concerns over discrepancies in statements that have been made over...

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The CofE is at a crossroads. A radical solution could be its saviour

Feb 16, 2025 by

by Cathy Newman, The Times: Left rudderless by a string of abuse scandals, many among the clergy think the church should separate from the state and bishops be evicted from the Lords The Church of England has endured for nearly 500 years,...

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Urgent: Christians in Syria need your prayers

Feb 16, 2025 by

“Every Christian is afraid of what will happen in the coming weeks,” said a Syrian Christian leader to TBF Trust on 14 January 2025. “There is no law and order, no police or army,” he explained as he tried to describe the alarming...

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Can assisted suicide be called “healthcare”?

Feb 15, 2025 by

from SPUC: The privilege of caring for my dying patients […]  No. Assisted suicide is the complete antithesis of good health care. Palliative medicine specialists and others who provide good end-of-life care recognise that a person...

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Diversity staff offered DOUBLE the salary of junior doctors by the NHS

Feb 15, 2025 by

by George Bunn, GB News: The Health Secretary highlighted ‘some really daft things being done in the name of equality, diversity and inclusion’. Equality and diversity staff are being hired on twice the salary of junior...

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Wrestling with the ethics of assisted dying in Room 10

Feb 15, 2025 by

by Janice Turner, The Times: The stakes could not be higher, the moral quandaries more profound, yet the way Kim Leadbeater’s bill is being scrutinised looks plain amateurish, writes Janice Turner. In the back pages of the Terminally Ill...

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Gen Zers on why they’ve turned to God: ‘It’s beautiful waiting for sex’

Feb 15, 2025 by

by Hannah Evans, The Times: Until the age of 15, I did something that was considered by my school friends and fellow teenagers to be deeply, deeply uncool: I went to church. Not just on Sundays, but also to Bible study on Wednesday...

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