If anyone reading this can afford it, could they please pay the money to whomever has captured the Roman Catholic Church and is holding it to ransom? This is not the first time my church has provoked my ire. The past two years have seen an increasing level of politically charged nonsense from CAFOD (Catholic Fund for […]
(Photograph: Senedd Cymru / Welsh Parliament, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) That small strip of land to the west of England which self-identifies as a country has struck yet another blow for abject stupidity. Of course, I am referring to Wales. For sheer comedy value, Wales truly takes the Welsh Cake. It aspires
It was a few nights before Christmas and I was in Manchester. It was late. I stepped out of the taxi into the cold night air and headed to where the driver had told me the hotel reception was located. I walked into the reception and my spectacles immediately steamed over. The room was very
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Looking over Luzhou City in Sichuan Province from the fifteenth-floor balcony of my apartment I was wondering, after over twenty years of coming to China, what was wrong with this country. Then it hit me. I could see four main streets from my apartment, all right in the heart of the city with shops, bars
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(Photograph: Scottish Government, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) Presumably saving all their bangs for the impending war between Israel and Hamas, the SNP conference in Aberdeen ended with the usual whimper about seeking independence if they had a mandate to do so. This is the safest promise that could be made, akin to
Ross Clark in The Spectator reckons that Pope Francis has gone ‘full Greta’ over his recent document Laudate Deum, which he presented to the current and ongoing Synod of Synodality in Rome. He could well be right. Popes issue several types of documents with different levels of authority, including Encyclicals, Apostolic Exhortations and Papal Bulls.
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My taxi driver in Washington DC was from Eritrea. He had asked where I came from and how it compared with my country; and he told me how different he found it from his. So I braced myself and asked the most politically incorrect of questions: where was he from? Turns out he had won
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I have had reason elsewhere to lament the woeful state of the Roman Catholic Church, my church as it happens. From the head down, like the proverbial fish rotting, it seems to be in decay. From the suppression of the archaic but, nevertheless, completely harmless Latin Mass which is enjoyed by many, old and young,
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Britain’s major Blairite vanity project, the HS2 rail line is nothing short of a national disgrace verging on scandal. Mind you, for sheer comedy value, you can’t fault it. It’s the only gravy train that manages to run without tracks; it starts somewhere in London that nobody can find, and goes to somewhere up north
Your correspondent has just returned from Italy and has reported previously in these pages on the situation there regarding North African migrants. Al fresco dining is a nightmare, plagued as one is by a succession of North African men approaching your table festooned with trinkets, refusing to read the ‘go away’ hand gestures. Ignoring them is
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