Pope Benedict will be received by Queen Elizabeth in his historic visit, which risks being overshadowed by a snowballing sexual abuse scandal engulfing the Catholic church
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FT on 17th Mar 2010 (via traxfer.ft.com)
It seems the UK Border Agency has got its banning stick out once more. This time however, I think they've got it right.A father and daughter from a US church which preaches hatred of homosexuals have been banned from entering the UK. Fred Phelps and his daughter Shirley Phelps-Roper from the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) had urged protests against a play being put on in Hampshire. Queen Mary&...
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TheCynicalDragon on 20th Feb 2009 (via thecynicaldragon.blogspot.com)
The Queen's role as head of the Church of England may no longer be "appropriate" following changes to the law of succession, a group of MPs has suggested.
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Telegraph on 7th Dec 2011 (via telegraph.feedsportal.com)
This is a second guest post by the Church of Scientology UK Media Relations Team You will all remember that since the UK Crown Prosecution Service gave our Church the same legal protection as mainstream religions, the Church of Scientology has been able to set up ‘Scientologophobia Watch,’ a lively interactive web forum on which people who insult
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ShirazSocialist on 27th May 2009 (via shirazsocialist.wordpress.com)
Apparently, Telford is the most godless town in the UK. Excellent! Let’s keep it that way. So godless are my fellow Telfordonians that the Church of England has seen fit to send a missionary to tame the savages redeem us. According to the Church of England, Telford has the lowest per capita church attendance in the UK.
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WonkosWorld on 29th Jan 2009 (via wonkosworld.co.uk)
Brown, Cameron and Clegg quizzed over papal visit in light of recent scandal in the Catholic church.
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Telegraph on 22nd Apr 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Labour Councillors step in after Conservative Council refuses to help threatened project. Labour's Church Street and Queen's Park Councillors have given emergency help to the Young Men's Outreach Project axed by the Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition government following the government's decision to axe funding for the Church Street and Queen's Park Neighbourhood Foru...
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LabourMatters on 19th Sep 2010 (via labourmatters.com)
Daily Mail, 30 March 2009 The resignation of Michael Nazir-Ali as Bishop of Rochester is a terrible blow, not just for the Church of England but for Britain. The bishop says he is resigning so that he can work for endangered or beleaguered Christian minorities both abroad and in the UK. What a shocking rebuke to the church,
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MelaniePhillips on 30th Mar 2009 (via melaniephillips.com)
Within hours of Michael Martin's announcement that he intended to step down as Speaker of the House of Commons the Queen was seeking the counsel of Baroness Thatcher on the issue.
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Telegraph on 20th May 2009 (via telegraph.co.uk)
even the most bent UK member of Parliament might not be able to put one of these through expenses. Some nice pictures to ogle at. As an aside, I notice that the scandal engulfing UK politics, rather like the scandal of the smear emails from Downing Street, seems not to have garnered much media commentary outside the UK. Perhaps the feeling is that Britain just is a pathetic country these days, an...
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Samizdata on 16th May 2009 (via samizdata.net)
What on earth does it say about the impotency of this utterly wretched British Government IF the news that the American President is trying to secure an invite for Her Majesty the Queen to attend the official D-Day commemorations in France is true? Is the UK government aware of this Obama initiative? Is The Queen? Or is this made up nonsense by the White House spokesman but thrilled by the m...
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ATangledWeb on 2nd Jun 2009 (via atangledweb.squarespace.com)