Remembrance Sunday

Harry Billinge: “My generation saved the world”

November 10, 2019
Archbishop Cranmer
0 Comments

There's no need to read anything or watch anything or listen to anyone else on this Remembrance Sunday: D-Day veteran Harry Billinge says it all. Listen right to the end. They shall grow not old, as we that are left…

national secular society pakistan islamists anglicans church of england

National Secular Society equates Anglicans with Islamists baying for blood

November 12, 2018
0 Comments

While the Church of England was preparing to lead the nation in a corporate commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day 1918, the National Secular Society issued a tweet.…

Armistice 100: They shall not grow old…

November 11, 2018
0 Comments

Black and white is another world: they do not feel because there are no tears; where blood is grey, there is no pain. The grainy ghosts are trapped in trenches…

Remembrance Sunday: ‘Goodbye, Old Man’

November 12, 2017
274 Comments

'Goodbye, Old Man', watercolour, by Fortunino Matania (1881-1963), depicts a British soldier saying farewell to his dying horse. It was commissioned in 1916 by the Blue Cross animal welfare charity,…

“To a man and a woman.. the Democrats have morphed into Violet Elizabeth Bott”

November 18, 2016
172 Comments

Goodness, what larks! I believe it was rubber-mouthed minstrel Mr. Jagger who sang about ‘Dancing in the Street’, and now half of the United States is doing it! All because…

Remembrance Day: there’s a long, long trail a-winding..

November 13, 2016
73 Comments

A long trail of prophets and dark prophecies precedes the apocalypse. When you're dead, you don't care. When you're partly living with no eyes, one leg and half a mind,…

We will remember them, won't we?

November 7, 2015
0 Comments

We will remember them. We intone it ritually every year. We even make a chronological covenant: 'At the going down of the sun and in the morning..' There have…

Jake Berry MP seeks to extend the freedom of public bodies to pray

November 21, 2014
201 Comments

When Councillor Clive Bone of Bideford Town Council attempted to put a stop to the despicable discriminatory practice of formally beginning their meetings with prayers, the council dismissed his…

Remembrance Sunday: Sacrifice, Freedom and Peace

November 9, 2014
104 Comments

Who would have thought a hundred years on that we would still be arguing over the shady causes of World War One; debating whether the lions were led by…