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General Discussion

The Choice: Business as usual A leap into the dark

20 Jun 2016

Been drinking, Fred?

And of course, Fred, as you have been a model of reconciliation in all of this, there will be no blood on your hands.

20 Jun 2016

Got your victory speech lined up, Fred? Want to run it past us first for a fact check?

20 Jun 2016

Sorry, S. You will know from my PM that this was the message I deleted. It just got in the way of a very good debate (within a debate) about TTIP - which will need very careful handling, as you have rightly observed. Please don't mind me if I do join in, S. But I won't be indulging in the refrain: 'Your not singing anymore' if we go ahead in what may be a very close contest. ...

20 Jun 2016

Will you be singing the National Anthem along with the England crowd during tonight's footie, S? Seems He is omnipresent...

20 Jun 2016

Actually S, it wasn’t advice I was seeking, but solace. As it turned out this came from an unexpected source. An eighty-something year-old Scottish lady called Janet was wheeling herself through the church gates as I arrived at St Greg’s - so we chatted. It turned out that she was recovering from a brain tumour operation and had recently been to see her NHS consultant. Unfearful of ...

19 Jun 2016

@burneside & @S , I don't normally do God myself, with visits to Church normally reserved for births, marriages, deaths and commemorations. The underlying symbolism, as I understand it, is one of tolerance. T his is exactly the human quality currently most lacking in the referendum debate - and which will be most in need once this week is over.

19 Jun 2016

Words of wisdom from the Daily Mail's own profit prophet? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36495983

19 Jun 2016

Nice words from the Vicar of St Gregory's Parish Church based around the earlier reading from the letter of Paul to the Galatians (3.23 - 29) regarding the increasingly divisive and vitriolic battle lines drawn during the referendum debate: "As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ; There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, ...