Can you live on £53 per week, as the Works and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith suggests you could, if you had to? Here’s a table, rounded to weekly, monthly and annual amounts, which should answer the question. Rent isn’t included because a person on £53 per week (subject to living in appropriate accommodation) would have […]
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The Church of England is a tortoise compared to Rome’s hare
There are many ways of comparing denominations. There are so many differences of style, liturgy, customs and even doctrine. But such comparisons are always subjective. One man’s heresy is another man’s cornerstone. But recent events involving the leadership of the Church of England and the Church of Rome, overlapping as they have, provide us with […]
Danger lies ahead for the Walsall squad
I said, in a rare piece of commentary, at the start of the football season, that “the road to Wembley starts here.” It was an optimistic look forward to a hoped-for season of long cup-runs and league success for Walsall FC. Just before last season started, the Saddlers staged a pre-season open training session on […]
2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 2,200 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 4 years to get […]
The shocking outcome to Aussie radio station royal pregnancy prank
A radio station presenter called a female journalist a “fat slag”, live on air. Another presenter at the same station pressured a 14 year old girl, also live on air, to confirm that she had been raped. For both of these breaches the regulator imposed a licence condition requiring it to not broadcast “material which […]
The Leveson Inquiry Report – Live Blog
The Leveson Inquiry into the Culture, Practice and Ethics of the Press Live-Blog: Please publicise http://drakene.ws/leveson-report. 1701 The Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition are now meeting for talks aimed at building a consensus approach to the Leveson Inquiry Report and its recommendations; ahead a general debate on the Report in the […]
Just how many people click those dodgy social media links?
Every now and again, I – like many people – receive a direct message on Twitter telling me that somebody is saying something nasty about me; or that I’ve been caught on video doing something I shouldn’t have been doing. On Facebook, I see status after status telling me that I can now see who […]
Police in Pakistan say Rimsha Masih is innocent
Police in Pakistan have submitted an interim charge sheet to the court in the case of Rimsha Masih, the young girl accused of desecrating the Qur’an, and have concluded that she is innocent of the charges. The charge sheet, lodged with the court on Saturday, suggests that Mohammed Khalid Chishti, the local imam, is guilty […]
More news from the Church in Wales Governing Body
University Chaplains Education chaplaincy was something “very worth while”, the Bishop of St Asaph, the Rt Revd Gregory Cameron, told the GB, as he moved a motion that urged “ways of supporting, developing, and enhancing chaplaincy provision to institutions of tertiary, further, and higher education”. The GB heard presentations from a number of education chaplains. More: […]
Church in Wales’ Governing Body debates women bishops
A consultation conducted earlier this year suggested that a majority of members of the Governing Body (GB) were in favour of women bishops, the Archbishop of Wales, Dr Barry Morgan, said. “Seventy-nine per cent of lay members and 83 per cent of clerical members indicated either strong or broad support for legislation being brought forward to […]