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“Rejoice! Rejoice! Young Rees-Mogg has donned the underpants of rebellion and the bowler hat of Bulldoggedness!”

January 27, 2018
Mrs Proudie
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Goodness! It’s that time again when I surround myself with paper, ink and sealing wax to capture my thoughts on the week that was. To be honest, my head is reeling after listening to Mr. Slope’s explanation of ‘Gender Theory’…

We wouldn’t need a Minister for Loneliness if successive governments hadn’t destroyed the traditional family

January 20, 2018
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It will soon be time for the Barchester Biennale Arts Festival, not quite as prestigious as the one in Venice but you don’t get your feet wet crossing the street.…

Has Nigel Farage been ‘nobbled’ by some secret Eunatic hit-squad with negatives of him shifting Château d’Yquem by the bucket load with Jacques Delors at a topless bar in Clochemerle?

January 13, 2018
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Goodness! It’s all very well re-shuffling the pack, but when most of the cards are Jokers, the results remain the same. Mrs. Dismay handled her musical chair interlude with the…

“I am coming round to the idea of a modern-day Great Schism, with those of a pure and Anglican mind setting up a sort of Avignon Archiepiscopate”

January 6, 2018
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Goodness! Well here we are in a brand new year – who knows what things will pop up to entertain, delight and outrage? With the semi-lunatic brigade installed in the…

Stooge – A Brexmas Carol

December 30, 2017
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Something a little different for you this festive season, dear hearts! My dear friend Mr. Dickens sent this first draft of a story he is about to publish. I know…

Cathedral invites local mosque to sing Christmas carols round the crib

December 16, 2017
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Welcome, dear hearts, to my pre-Christmas newsletter! The Market Square is bedecked with boughs of holly, the old gentlemen at Hiram’s Hospital are rubbing their knees together to keep warm,…

A school for Muslim girls that forbids them the use of toilet paper ‘for cultural reasons’?

December 9, 2017
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Goodness! I have had a very busy few days, dear friends, going from door to door with my collection tin, asking the good people of Barchester to give generously for…

General Synod? “Henceforth I shall refer to this gathering of Libertudinarians as ‘Sin-odd’”

December 2, 2017
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Goodness! One of the latest fads sweeping Barset, if not the country as a whole, is Spiritualism. I believe Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is a devotee, and in our own…

Church of Sweden: God is not ‘Lord’ or ‘He’, but It is Father and Mother, Brother and Sister

November 25, 2017
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Goodness! I’m sure you are all waiting to hear the latest gossip doing the rounds in the salons and dinner parties of Barchester. Much was discussed at the banquet at…

‘Scottish National Socialism has more of Calvinism about it than it would care to admit’

November 18, 2017
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Goodness! Dr. Livingstone’s latest dispatch from the Heart of Darkness, published in The Jupiter, is most encouraging. There has been a coup in Debra Dowa, with His Excellency the Supreme…

The Rev’d Dr Jasper Wright-Onn preaches his inaugural sermon at St Platitude-upon-Twaddle

November 11, 2017
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Goodness! One is subjected to so much nonsense these days, don’t you agree dear friends? Crank up the electrical magic lantern on any given night and the anti-Christian bile pours…

Low-Churchophobia Week to combat militant High-Churchers

November 4, 2017
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Good heavens! Eyebrows were most definitely raised this week as The Jupiter reported on the murky doings of Westmonster. It seems no young person’s seat is safe from the wandering…

The archaic notion that universities are bastions of liberty and free speech

October 28, 2017
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Lawks a-mercy! The townsfolk of Barchester were somewhat startled the other day when a gaudily-dressed charivari trundled through Bishop Fondling’s Postern (13th century) into the Market Square. The vivid rainbow…

Crime up 13%? Police are too busy tracking down hate-criminals who plot against Common Purpose, diversity and equality

October 21, 2017
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Good heavens! A headmaster at an Anglican school has banned a Christian group from taking assemblies, simply because a small band of lemon-sucking Guardianistas decided to raise their scrawny necks…

Militant Calvinists at Snowflake College, Oxenbridge, demand closure of Science Faculty for being “harmful, intimidating and predatory to Christian students”

October 14, 2017
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Goodness! When is a Conservative not a Conservative? Why, when she is a neo-Marxist deep-state Stalinist surveillance-addict out of her depth in a puddle now occupying the Home Office, of…

“Satan’s fist and the Big State are but one and the same”

October 7, 2017
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Hwæt! There you are, something different to open proceedings – not at all ‘another week, same stuff’, as some might opine. As you may suppose, I have been brushing upon…

Wrestling with Scripture? Is it time to transgender our macho theology?

October 2, 2017
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The Rt Rev'd Paul Bayes, Bishop of Liverpool, posed the question of whether the phrases we use to describe biblical exposition are "too macho". The Rt Rev'd Pete Wilcox, Bishop…

The letters of St Paul have always needed a woman’s touch

September 30, 2017
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Oh my Goodness, what a week! Barchester may have settled into the slumbering season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, but the rest of the world continues to be rocked by…

“The devil’s arm grows longer by the minute…”

September 23, 2017
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Goodness! In the light of recent events in Parsons Green, the ever-dynamic government of Sharia Dismay has taken action, as I discovered when I called in at Mr. Ballcock’s Ironmongery…

“We are leaving the Unholy Bureaucratic Empire in the nick of time”

September 16, 2017
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Goodness! One wonders if Mr. Clegg’s pants are on fire, now that we know for sure the Zollverein are planning a European Army and a non-elected supreme Kaiser-president with full…