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Ian Webb 🇺🇦

@IanWebby

Vicar in Derbyshire but posts and r/ts are personal opinions. Hopefully funny stuff, sometimes political.

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Does he even own a suit?

Number10cat's tweet image. Does he even own a suit?

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Catholic Social Teaching is neither an abstract theory nor an unattainable utopia. Rather, it offers a path to transform the lives of people and institutions by placing Christ at the center of every human activity. vatican.va/roman_curia/po…


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God shows a preference for the poor: the Lord’s words of hope and liberation are addressed first of all to them. Therefore, even in their poverty or weakness, no one should feel abandoned. And if the Church wants to be Christ's Church, it must be a Church in which the poor have a…


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The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe


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Tweeted exactly a decade ago. People still learning the lesson the hard way.

'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.



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Sky News, "Labour are going to blame Brexit for their economy growth" Lord Hammond, "When the British people made - in my view unwisely - the decision to leave the European Union, they were making that decision in the context of a world trading order that was stable and well…


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Please watch and share this 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇸 President Macron, "Naively, we have entrusted our democratic space to social media controlled by American entrepreneurs or Chinese corporations whose interests do not align with the survival of democracy" "Children are exposed to harmful…


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On behalf of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, I welcome the news of the appointment of Bishop Sarah Mullally as the next Archbishop of Canterbury. She will bring many personal gifts and experience to her new role. cbcew.org.uk/cardinal-welco…


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A wonderful gathering in London today and great way to kick off Black History Month

Thanks to @revarun and @RosemarieMallet, our lead Bishops for Racial Justice, for their leadership and chairing of the GMH/UKME clergy & ordinands gathering today. A powerful day of learning, encouragement and celebration during #BlackHistoryMonth. churchofengland.org/media/press-re…

CottrellStephen's tweet image. Thanks to @revarun and @RosemarieMallet, our lead Bishops for Racial Justice, for their leadership and chairing of the GMH/UKME clergy & ordinands gathering today. A powerful day of learning, encouragement and celebration during #BlackHistoryMonth.

churchofengland.org/media/press-re…


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Paracetamol is the first choice of painkiller if you're pregnant and is still considered the safest choice of pain relief during pregnancy. There is no evidence it causes autism in children. Kate Brintworth, our Chief Midwifery Officer, explains more 🎥


“Hit a nadir under Thatcher.” Interesting take.

The wealth share of the UK's richest has been trending down since 1900 and hit a nadir under Thatcher. Why? Because popular capitalism (homebuying, private pensions, share ownership etc) levelled up by increasing the wealth of everyone else. That's the remedy to inequality.

FraserNelson's tweet image. The wealth share of the UK's richest has been trending down since 1900 and hit a nadir under Thatcher. 

Why? Because popular capitalism (homebuying, private pensions, share ownership etc) levelled up by increasing the wealth of everyone else.

That's the remedy to inequality.


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With falling numbers of parents getting their children vaccinated, and a resurgence of disease we had previously eradicated, it’s shockingly irresponsible for Farage to give a platform to these poisonous lies. He should apologise and sever all ties with this dangerous extremism.

“It’s highly likely that the Covid vaccines have been a significant factor in the cancers of members of the royal family” says Dr Aseem Malhotra on the main stage at Reform’s party conference

harry_horton's tweet image. “It’s highly likely that the Covid vaccines have been a significant factor in the cancers of members of the royal family” says Dr Aseem Malhotra on the main stage at Reform’s party conference


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You had a lot of questions about the Nicene Creed in Old English, and we have some answers. 📜 Alexandra explains why the Filioque is included, why we call it 'Old English', and why you might recognise some Old English words. You can find her at instagram.com/dralexzhirnova.


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Britain MUST be radical in its electoral reform. • A NZ style (part proportional) electoral system • Compulsory voting • Citizens Assemblies • Local Mayors with real financial powers • An appointed upper house of real credibility and quality Our model of representative…

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Government announce generational reform of electoral policy; - Giving the vote to 16 and 17 year olds. - Reforming voter ID laws to make voting more accessible. - Changing campaign donation laws to guard against foreign interference.



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First, a statue of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin appears in the Moscow Metro. Then a Kremlin adviser says that “from a legal standpoint the USSR still exists.” In Russia the past hangs over the present. My report from Moscow.


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Is this the oldest manuscript with a continuously known provenance?

On this feast day of St Augustine, revisit the manuscript that started it all, the sixth-century Augustine Gospels (MS 286), carried by the Saint on his mission to bring Christianity to England corpus.cam.ac.uk/parker-library…

CorpusCambridge's tweet image. On this feast day of St Augustine, revisit the manuscript that started it all, the sixth-century Augustine Gospels (MS 286), carried by the Saint on his mission to bring Christianity to England corpus.cam.ac.uk/parker-library…


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“I invite them round and they don’t even let me tell them my side of the story!”

FrTedQOTD's tweet image. “I invite them round and they don’t even let me tell them my side of the story!”

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8 years ago I was "invited" to a mandatory #PIP assessment after returning the 80-page @DWPgovuk questionnaire with a post-it note saying "As I'm not a salamander my legs haven't grown back." This is what happened next...

theirishego's tweet image. 8 years ago I was "invited" to a mandatory #PIP assessment after returning the 80-page @DWPgovuk questionnaire with a post-it note saying "As I'm not a salamander my legs haven't grown back."

This is what happened next...
theirishego's tweet image. 8 years ago I was "invited" to a mandatory #PIP assessment after returning the 80-page @DWPgovuk questionnaire with a post-it note saying "As I'm not a salamander my legs haven't grown back."

This is what happened next...

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