The Abominable Gove and the Piece of Cod which passeth all understanding
Unlike Mary Kingsley, I have never had the slightest desire to spread the word of the Lord in Africa. Too many insects for my liking, not to mention all the…
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“White slavery is alive and well in this sceptred isle, and nothing is being done”
Goodness! One shall think twice about accepting invitations to Newcastle. The prospect of being lured into a lust-pit of Ugandan relations with swarthy multi-kultis is too horrifying to contemplate, and one gives thanks for the protection of robust foundations, the…
“We traditionalists have kept our finger in the dyke for long enough…”
Goodness! There has been so much rain over the last few days that Barchester has almost become an island, cut off from the rest of humanity. We discovered the Palace…
An illicit blessing ceremony for the transgendered
Goodness! A copy of the proposed ‘New Revised-Revised Post-Synodical Common Purpose Bible’ was delivered by courier yesterday for my Lord the Bishop to peruse before it is presented to Parliament…
“The Church of England leaps with enthusiasm from one heresy to another”
Goodness! Someone asked from whence I glean the little snippets of news which form the ‘meat’ of my weekly column. Of course, they almost all feature in the pages of…
The Holy Spirit of Common Sense inspires the Book of Common Purpose
Goodness! The last thing one expects when attending a concert is rabble-rousing, but that is exactly what was on the programme when my Lord the Bishop and I attended the…
CofE General Sex Synod 2017: not one question about the Persecuted Church
Over the past few months Christians in the village of Jalalabad in Ghazipur District, India, where temperatures frequently soar to 40°C, have had their water supply cut to force them…
‘Girding the Loins for Jesus: A Christian’s Guide to Weaponising Your Surgical Appliance’
Goodness! How quickly the year speeds by. Summer already, though you wouldn’t know it from the grey sky and daily precipitation. At least my butt is full to capacity, which…
You cannot “draw the poison from Brexit” without extracting deception from the human heart
'Where there is no vision, the people perish', the Archbishop of Canterbury writes in the Mail on Sunday, reminding is that the Authorised Version still resonates down the ages, and…
Time to don the Breastplate of Righteous Indignation
Horrors! Shudders! Gasp! Just what is going on? That Swedish Lesbish (new ecclesiastical title for those mitred Friends of Dorothy) of Stockholm has declared churches and cathedrals must remove all…
Corbyn is not the Messiah: he’s a very dangerous Marxist-Leninist agitator who knows some very naughty boys
O calamity! What can one say about the election other than a debacle, a disaster and a right royal mess! I never thought Mrs. Dismay to be as sure-footed and…
“Have the British people taken leave of their senses?”
Goodness! What a night! Election fever gripped Barchester good and proper, with rival parties parading round the town until the early hours, brandishing torches and yelling their heads off. Being…
This election might prove to be a mistake, for the polls indicate support for May is slipping away
Lawks-a-mercy! The good folk of Barchester have been whipped up into a frenzy of indifference over last Wednesday’s political debate, which I believe was broadcast by the Bolshevik Corporation in…
“We need more ‘Onward, Christian Soldiers’, and a lot less ‘Kumbaya’”
Goodness! It does seem ages since I straddled His Grace’s column, but here I am, back from a short holiday in the Northern Isles. We were inspired by Her Majesty’s…
England has defeated religious fanatics in the past, and will do so again
When in 1587 Pope Sixtus V began conspiring with King Philip II of Spain in 'The Enterprise of England', it was the world's most powerful religious leader giving his blessing…
“As the disintegrating raft that was once the titanic Labour Party hits the iceberg of humiliation and oblivion..”
Goodness! There’s so much to get one’s teeth into this week that I have taken them out of the glass of water by my bed and actually put them in!…
Can the Front National offer French resistance to bearded anarchist-types?
Vote Whig, vote often! Goodness! Such goings-on in Barchester now that Mrs. Dismay has announced a snap election – there hasn’t been so much excitement since Bishop Loombucket declared for…
Gibraltar: the Treaty of Utrecht has no Article 50
Goodness! What a busy week, spring-cleaning the Palace and visiting the sick and needy. It’s not all fun being a bishop’s wife, let me tell you. However, I am taking…
Although God’s voice is a fiery flame (Ps 29:7), modern society is fire-retardant
Goodness! Isn’t it amazing what a scrap of paper can do? Mrs. Dismay has duly signed and sent off her letter to Tusker the Rotter, invoking Article 50 and so…
“One wishes the PM would get on with it and trigger this pesky Article”
Goodness! Mr. Slope, fresh from an ecumenical gathering in Utrecht, has much to say about dykes. They seem to do a splendid job, keeping the citizenry safe and dry, along…