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A British Tradition – politicalbetting.com
Forget the naysayers. The Archbishop of Canterbury should not resign. He stands in the now well-worn – if not at all honourable (and who now cares anyway about quaint nonsense such as “honour“) – tradition of leaders of organisations in charge when something dreadful happens but Who Are Not To Blame. Why should he fall on his mitre when no-one else ever does. No. No. Clinging on like a limpet using a variety of grotesque shameless excuses is the British way – and provides much entertainment for the rest of us. Even better if he can be promoted and acquire some lucrative sinecures. That’s how things are done.
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Waiting until tomorrow morning wasn't an option.
Business travel is grim, unless it's a few weeks/months in a cool city doing a special project. The constant pissing about between Westminster, constituency, foreign trips does not appeal at all.
No no no! I’m not having that.
Business travel is great, and a real privilege. Before Covid I was a very regular business traveller, not right at the extreme end but alternating between BA gold and silver and enjoying every minute of it.
You’re travelling the world and somebody else is paying. Every trip to some dull suburban business park outside Warsaw or Antwerp is also a free teleportation to a region you can explore over the weekend. And long haul trips even more so.
Since the pandemic I’m travelling sadly much less but even last week’s trip to Manchester, Leeds and Birmingham had its compensations.
In early November?
The world's gone mad!
Fred Goodwin had to leave RBS after the 2008 crash and ultimately give up his gong. Entwistle stepped down as BBC DG after the Newsnight investigation on child abuse wrongly led to innocent people being named. Boris ultimately carried the can for partygate too and went.
I suspect if more Bishops follow the Bishop of Newcastle tomorrow, she will end up the Sajid Javid of the C of E, first Cabinet Minister/Diocesan Bishop to put their head above the parapet then led to the dominoes falling.
Whether the DG of Harrods stays in place if found not to have acted on the Al Fayed allegations will also be an issue
It's normally a sign.
the favourite bit was arriving in the Amsterdam office before most of the local staff arrived..
To show you how many points I had it's only this year I've lost my status with KLM and Hilton..
NY Times
Should climate change spending be prioritised?
Should be prioritised, even if this means cuts are needed elsewhere: 34%
There are more urgent priorities for spending right now than climate change: 39%'
https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/50913-cop29-britons-remain-pessimistic-of-what-climate-summits-can-achieve
But why did you hold back on Lord Robens, Aberfan, the FCA, Ashley Alder, Cressida Dick, Sandy Brindley, Sir Alex Chisholm, the Post Office, Paula Vennells... ??
Seriously - talk about a target rich environment.
What about minced pie topping pizza?
https://www.thinkinganglicans.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/10-Nov-2024-Radio-4-Sunday.pdf
Yes, it's a mess, yes it goes back decades. The first report into Smyth's behaviour was in 1982, and the response of those who did that report was to sweep it under a carpet called Zimbabwe. There are people who were a lot more complicit than Welby.
And it he were just the poor bugger holding the parcel when it exploded, he would deserve sympathy. Church safeguarding is less awful than it was a decade ago.
But his fingerprints are on very specific bits of this disaster. Unfortunately, I don't see how his position is tenable.
(As for what happens next, the CofE process for nominating bishops is currently a nest of vipers, with a couple of recent failures to appoint. For all Welby is from the evangelical end, he may not be evangelical (for which read 'sound on gays') enough for enough in the current climate.)
I believe that there is no limit to the number of guilty people who can be punished.
We just need a courtroom like this
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/31632179/gary-lineker-sign-huge-match-of-the-day-deal/
Bailey can then be next CEO of the Post Office. Mandelson likely to be our next man in Washington despite former resignations
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/24/newsid_4605000/4605234.stm
Oh gawwwddddd.......we know what happens to BBC shows when they this and based on recent experience they will try and capture da yufffff market. It will be bloody Paddy McGuinness....
Before appointing Sarah Mullally, who is also mired in scandal.
He really does have shocking judgement.
Brilliant targeting as ever Cyclefree.
Lineker, who will take a substantial pay cut, will have hosted MOTD for 25 years when he steps down from the show.
Anchoring the World Cup, which is being held in Canada, Mexico and USA, will mean he bows out on the biggest stage in football.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/31632179/gary-lineker-sign-huge-match-of-the-day-deal/
IT BEGINS
Has she done anything since Dr. Who?
There is an article (in the Catholic journal The Tablet) here on the runners and riders -
https://www.thetablet.co.uk/features/canterbury-who-next/
I would certainly agree that Usher (Norwich) Snow (Leicester) and Tanner (Chester) are the likely candidates. That said, anyone who thinks Rachel Treweek has been a success at Gloucester is an idiot.
This is about the fraud investigation:
https://www.london.anglican.org/articles/update-on-martin-sergeant-fraud-case/
But that is very much the tip of the iceberg. There is a lot worse going on behind the scenes.
Yay!
I presume Lineker is off to Canterbury?
The Bishop of Chelmsford would be an interesting choice as first female Archbishop
I've never been on a diet. I eat whatever I want. I drink way more than recommended
My waist is six inches less than half my height
Walk, baby, walk
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I would be betting on Graham Usher personally with Helen-Ann Hartley to follow (because I suspect the compromise to get the first female Archbishop will be that she isn't there for that long...
https://x.com/elisestefanik/status/1853489802265465331
They get their say at Synod but they have to recognise they are only half the C of E, the Catholic wing is the other side and hasn't had the Archbishop from their wing since Rowan Williams.
Usher might be possible as he is on the liberal Catholic wing but then that would also rule out Helen Ann to follow as she is also on the Catholic wing, though the more evangelical female Bishop of Gloucester might then be an option
https://x.com/aaronnarraph/status/1855962504712552829
PBers will love the fact that my strict diet has seen me gain 25 pounds in 2024.
And also because this picks up on some of the stuff I've been writing about in my book.
Many years ago as a pupil barrister I sat in court between John Smyth and Mary Whitehouse. She was bringing a case about some pornographic programme or other. She was very polite and charming.
Smyth, on the other hand, totally ignored me, not even deigning to say good morning or acknowledge my presence in any way. In those days, he was not the only senior male barrister to behave with such astounding rudeness. Fortunately for me, being a woman meant that I was spared his advances. It was only the women-loving perverts I had to fend off. The judge in the case was Mr Justice Taylor who wrote the first report on the Hillsborough tragedy.
Mary Whitehouse lost the case. Christopher Hitchens' remark about the ostentatiously pious comes to mind when you meet people like Smyth. Also if you put any group on a pedestal you create the conditions for some in that group to abuse their position and for abusers to join that group. A lesson which ought to be - but is never ever - learned.
Everyone is searching for more answers and meaning than there actually is.
If I had to guess... the structure will be like last time- possibly the last few times. The obvious big names will be tossed around to be tossed out. Then someone surprising will be suggested, and nobody will come up with objections quickly, so they will be nominated fairly rapidly before anyone does.
That's certainly how we ended up with Welby, and (to a lesser extent) with Williams.
But from a profile of the runners to succeed George Carey;
...it has been a safe general rule since the war that the prime minister always chooses the archbishop whom his predecessor would least have wanted.
http://ship-of-fools.com/features/2000/NextABC/Wales.html
It’s a term I invented to cover employees who are paid big money, while still being quite ordinary wage slaves.
So you have Joe, who works in software as a lead developer. He’s on $580,000 plus bonus plus share options. His wife, Mary, works at Blue Origin as a rocket plumber. She’s on $385,000.
So joint income just shy of a million. But no big assets - there’s a mortgage on the house, both cars are on lease…
Their neighbour, Bob and Carol have incomes in the $50,000 range….
There is a big tranche of Joe & Mary’s in the US.
Trump seems more impressionable this time around, so that is concerning.
The leadership seems to be less christian with every passing day. Welby should go and be quick about it.
I’m not going to repeat it here as Tse and RCS would get twitchy. Suffice to say his being caught committing fraud was just the start.
The fact he was the referee who didn't think taking out Virgil van Dijk was worth a booking and many other ridiculous decisions made in recent years rather making more sense in hindsight with this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9FN0px3ex8
I am sure things are much worse 19 yrs later.
This inches less than half one’s height is a new one to me, but my waist is 4 inches less than half my height.
There are going to be a lot of leopards with full bellies.