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“New life starts in the dark.whether it is a seed in the ground,a baby in the womb,or Jesus in the tomb.It starts in the dark” Barbara Taylor Brown

In Afghanistan over 3,500 coalition personnel along with many more Afghans were killed and yet, after 20 years of conflict the Taliban regained control in a couple of weeks. We should not be repeating this costly mistake.

Super-rich, greedy vested interests have an outsized influence on our political system. So, if we want a fairer economy, we need to work together. Find out how you can take action every week by joining our mailing list. 👉 tinyurl.com/35ypnewx

The Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists, has "wholeheartedly" endorsed Pope Leo XIV's call for peace, aligning himself with the pope's Palm Sunday appeal for an end to violence and war.

"A Church that does not provoke, a Gospel that does not disturb, a word from God that does not irritate, a word from God that does not touch the concrete sin of the society in which it is proclaimed: What kind of Gospel is that?” #SaintOscarRomero

Come do a course on trans theology at the @londonjesuit.bsky.social! You genuinely won't get the opportunity anywhere else!* 5 weeks, Monday evenings, starting 8th June *to the best of my knowledge londonjesuitcentre.churchsuite.com/events/4kgas...

Some 340 people became billionaires in 2025, often simply because their dads died. And nine million people died from hunger.

For love, for hope, for unity! On Saturday 28 March, a group from our diocese joined thousands of people to proudly support the Together Alliance March in central London against hatred, division and racism.

Via @apnews.com: Israeli police prevent Catholic leaders — *including Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa and the head of the Custos in the Holy Land* — from celebrating Palm Sunday Mass at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem apnews.com/article/isra...

‘The CIA kept my client in a coffin for 11 days in Guantanamo, then waterboarded him until he died’ I talk to Scotland’s leading human rights lawyer about British complicity in US torture, and how the behaviour of the west led to the collapse of human rights globally In @heraldscotland.bsky.social

Thousands march against far right in London in biggest ever multicultural protest. More than 100 charities, campaign groups and trade unions marched in a show of unity against far right politics. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Emotional. We turned up in our hundreds of thousands. With love, joy and hope in bucketloads. Know that today wasn’t the end of a journey, it was the beginning. This is how we’ll turn the tide against the far right. We outnumber them, now let’s outorganise them.

If only they’d been as worried about the Nazis in the 1930s…

Over 100 years ago, Gramsci wrote about the complicity of the press in promoting the interests of the hegemony over the interests of the rest of the population...

This is what unity against the far right looks like. Half a million people coming together to march for love, hope + unity.

@rossahlfeld.bsky.social @rokewood.bsky.social @lukedevlin.bsky.social @hughfoy.bsky.social @paxscotland.bsky.social @sciaf.bsky.social

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

#OtD 27 Mar 1904 Mother Jones, the legendary Irish-American labour organiser, was ordered out of Colorado by authorities for "stirring up" striking coal miners stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9927...

"Be converted! Be reconciled! Love one another!" #OscarRomero #LiveTheGospel #LoveEachOther

Human Rights Watch documented Israel’s use of white phosphorus munitions over the southern Lebanese town of Yohmor on March 3, firing the incendiary weapon over residential areas and sparking fires in at least two homes.

A few years ago I moved to a 4 day week. Long term illness/wanting to continue working provoked it tbh. Cannot recommend it enough-brewed the coffee-Wayne Shorter playing-and a book to be read.The rest of the day doing what the Italians call “dolce far niente”-I discovered “the joy of doing nothing”

Thank god women who were never going to podium can now be one step closer to the podium that they're still not going to get on. And all it took was invasive sex testing for every athlete

🪧 Join @unitesharon.bsky.social on Saturday. Let's stop the far right in its tracks ✋ Unite members will gather at the stage on Park Lane, start of the march, at 12pm, where our general secretary will speak. And don't miss the DJs in Trafalgar Square 🎧 @togetheralliance.bsky.social

They always get to antisemitism eventually

My edited collection on transness and Catholicism is coming out in paperback in September! Preorder here. (or just keep using whatever pirated version you've managed to find - I don't really care, but the support is nice) www.bloomsbury.com/uk/trans-lif...

The @londonjesuit.bsky.social is running a course on trans theology in June! If you wanna know what theology and transness have to say to one another (constructively), or are just interested in whats going on in the field, this is the course for you londonjesuitcentre.churchsuite.com/events/4kgas...

Cuba - a regime about which I am far from uncritical - has one of the best healthcare systems in the Americas. The effects of the US blockade on that system constitute terrorism.

"I am afraid that soon the Bible and the Gospels will not be allowed across our borders. We will receive only the bindings because all of the pages are subversive." #RutilioGrande

Would be MSPs revealed as nasty racists. Lord Offord bleats about "free speech" and "real opinions"- no sign of discipline for candidates calling Muslims "invaders", Holocaust deniers and attacking ethnic minority politicians

#OtD 22 Mar 1974 Scottish workers in the East Killbride Rolls Royce factory refused to work on plane parts from Pinochet's Chile. They kept the refusal up for 4 years, leaving the engines outside to rust, before they went missing one night stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9498...

Cannot believe that performance from Celtic. At no point did we look like a team who were getting beat!! No urgency! No fight! No divine right to win I get that -but cannot understand the utter lack of response when we go behind!

Overall percentage of Scots starting games in top flight Scottish football last season was 31.46 per cent.Sadly the Xenophobes will love this but the real question here is why can’t we produce players or is that we lack a pathway for them? To have a game fit for purpose these questions need answered

The UK's 50 richest families hold more wealth than 50% of the population combined.

Today's #StopBombingIran demo in London is about to begin. We're calling on the British government to refuse permission for the US to use British bases for its illegal attacks on Iran.

‘I seriously believe that Christianity is the only founda­tion of Socialism, and that a true Socialism is the necessary result of a sound Christianity.' -- F.D. Maurice, Tracts on Christian Socialism, No. 1.

The war in the Persian Gulf, oil price hikes and supply shocks are spurring nationalist responses in Britain and America centred on exploiting domestic oil and gas. Gabe Eckhouse and I recently wrote about how Britain's North Sea and US fracking sit in a long history of Middle Eastern conflict 🔽

On 28th March, we’ll be joining the @togetheralliance.bsky.social rally to say clearly: the super-rich have broken Britain - not migrants and refugees 📢 Will you join us?? 👉 bit.ly/4s4uXno #Together

Shame on Labour for raising tuition fees. There is a temptation for academics, feeling threatened by the crisis within HE, to acquiesce to this kind of thing in self-defence. We shouldn't. We need an entirely new funding model which works for students and staff alike

The Reform UK Ltd Scottish election launch was at the Ingliston Country Club and Hotel near Bishopton, Renfrewshire. So there's a place to boycott if you dislike fascism

Just transition will fail without poverty action, Scottish parties are warned. High essential costs, leave many people living permanently on the edge of crisis. “The only credible and just pathway to net-zero must also mean zero poverty.” www.holyrood.com/news/view,ju...

I Wargamed Iran for Obama. This Is the Worst-Case Scenario As a former US official, @ilangoldenberg.bsky.social spent years gaming a conflict with Iran. Here are 5 lessons he learned that Trump hasn't: zeteo.com/p/i-wargamed...

Unless progressive politicians/parties can make people believe (and feel) that democracy can deliver real sustainable change and redistribution of wealth,they simply sound like people who want power for its own sake removed from the realities of people’s daily lives, and democracy seems impotent!

These proposals need to be dropped entirely and apologised for ever having been proposed, not 'watered down' ... inews.co.uk/news/politic...