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The Net stutters

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There is a moment of annoyance in realising that the price of the weekend edition of the Financial Times has risen from £3.80 to £3.90, it means that the cost of it added to the £1.20 spent on the weekend edition of the Morning Star comes to £5.10 – an awkward amount for someone who likes neatness. Having an online subscription to the Financial Times, there is no need at all to buy the paper copy, but stories and features read on a screen simply do not feel the same …

Facing vixens

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The ladies at the counter would have found some other word for it, some word other than “synchronicity.” Not having seen so much as an Airfix model of the aircraft previously, to have encountered a large scale model, suspended in the air above a shop was unexpected. It was even more unexpected to discover that it bore the number of the squadron with which my father worked. A de Havilland Sea Vixen bearing the markings of 890 Squadron of the Royal Naval Air Service which had been based at HMS …

Who is daft?

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An hour to spare yesterday allowed a chance to drive the short distance from Street to Glastonbury and to enjoy the ambience of a town for which the word “alternative” is an entirely inadequate description. Glastonbury is filled with the esoteric, it is a place where people can be whatever they want to be and inhabit whatever world in which they wish to live. It is filled with characters who might have stepped straight from story books; if one wishes to walk the street as a witch or a wizard, …

Sermon for Sunday, 8th October 2017 (Trinity 17/Pentecost 18/Ordinary 27)

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“I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people that produces the fruits of the kingdom” Matthew 21:43

Has the church anything to do with Jesus of Nazareth? And if it is not to do with Jesus of Nazareth, then what is it about? Jesus understood our human propensity to do think and speak and do in a way that suited ourselves and he understood the way that those who claimed to be his followers might go, so he issues this …

Time of the signs

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Perhaps we have become overly self-critical, perhaps we have developed a tendency to over-analyse, but sometimes there are things that would cause one to wonder. There are things like the cast iron road signs that would warn drivers of Morris Minors and Hillman Humbers that they were approaching a school.

Even in schooldays, it was an annoying sign. The primary school teacher had drilled into us, “look right, look left, look right again, if it is all clear, go straight across,” a piece of advice that was to be superseded …

Knickers to the poor

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The BBC report that a journalist in Zimbabwe has been arrested for alleging that Grace Mugabe had donated second-hand underwear to poor people. The underwear story is entirely credible, Robert Mugabe is one of the most corrupt leaders on the world stage, a man who has destroyed his country and brought his people to abject poverty whilst enriching himself and his circle of supporters; that his wife, who leads a life of opulence, would give second-hand underwear to poor people is consistent with the arrogance displayed by the Mugabes. However, …

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