For the past decade, the Met Office has operated the practice of naming storms. According to Situational Awareness head, Will Lang, this improves communication of severe weather, and provides clarity. With the storm season ending in August, the Met Office has just finished its busiest year on record –12 tempests have been named in 12 […]
Why do Church of England (CofE) churches and their ‘with-it’, ‘down with the kids’ modern clergy employ ambulance-chasing tactics to try and attract those who really have no interest in any brand of organised religion whatsoever? Similarly, what’s behind their apparent ambivalence towards traditional King James Bible and 1662 Prayer Book-preferring Christians, who just don’t
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You don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone I remember growing up and being told that we had fought two world wars to protect our freedom and that the difference between us and Russia during the Cold War was that we had freedom, and they did not. It turns out that I was duped;
English universities have not always been the epitome of free speech that they are supposed to be. It was only in 1871 that Roman Catholics, Protestant nonconformists and atheists were able to attend and hold teaching posts at university with the passing of the Universities Test Act. However, that is nearly 160 years ago, and
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Nostalgia is a very peculiar animal. It’s apparently OK to be nostalgic about the very recent past, say the last twenty-five years, but even then there are things and people who are considered ‘off limits’. It goes without saying however, that it’s definitely ‘far-right’ to hanker after the more distant past, even if this is
I have had a lifelong fear of wasps. I’m not sure where this unusually intense fear originated. Interestingly, it took many years before I was actually stung by one, and it turned out to be a minor event, like a needle prick. Although I have yet to be stung by a bee, they surprisingly don’t
If you have ever wondered what it is like being in the midst of a revolution just look around now. This may be a revolution in which the buildings are left standing, but it is a revolution, nevertheless. The ‘long march’ through the institutions was accomplished long ago and we are now witnessing the finishing
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Snipers are in position, the vicinity is blockaded by police cars with blue lights flashing, the SAS are on standby, and a police helicopter is circling overhead. All eyes are on an apartment window about five storeys up and police officers are ready for the order to storm the building. “Anyway Sarge”, pipes up Constable
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The Notting Hill Stabfest (sorry, ‘Carnival’) kicks off today! It’s amazing how quickly these family-friendly events creep up on you – assuming you haven’t already been stabbed this year and are therefore sadly out of commission? As a Londoner myself it’s great to see the capital’s traditions being honoured – with stabbing now as permanent
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(Photograph: Simon from London, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) Sounds like a long-lost B&W episode of The Avengers doesn’t it? (the real1960s UK TV version, not the US cinema crap.) If, like me, you don’t watch TV or take any newspapers (thanks Covid), you might still get your fix of what’s
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