Mastodawn

Paul Bayes Dec 29, 2022

Dave Walker Dec 23, 2022

Challenging blog post from @RichardJMurphy

"The Christian message at Christmas is one of radical economic reform. Why doesn't the Church say that? Is it just too embedded with the proud and the mighty it's meant to be pulling down?"

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2022/12/23/the-radical-economics-of-christmas/

#ChurchOfEngland #Magnificat #JustinWelby #ArchbishopOfCanterbury #Church #Economics

The stock market is failing according to the CBI. So why don’t we just let it go?

I posted this on Twitter this morning: https://twitter.com/RichardJMurphy/status/1942861045426516103 My point is serious. The CBI is saying that the situation with regard to the UK stock exchange is getting desperate, because it is losing out to overseas markets and not attracting sufficient business. The question that needs to be asked is, why is that?...

Funding the Future

Paul Bayes Dec 14, 2022

Today the Church remembers St John of the Cross, who met God in darkness and unknowing:

"In that happy night,
In secret, seen of none,
Seeing nought myself,
Without other light or guide
Save that which in my heart was burning.

That light guided me
More surely than the noonday sun
To the place where He was waiting for me,
Whom I knew well,
And where none appeared."

Paul Bayes Dec 1, 2022

CarveHerName Dec 1, 2022

“People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired but that isn’t true. I was not tired physically… No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.”

#OnThisDay, 1 Dec 1955, Rosa Parks does not give up her seat on the bus for a white passenger, and is arrested. Although not the first black woman to be arrested Parks' refusal is a key moment in the American civil rights movement.
#WomenInHistory #RosaParks @histodons #Histodons

Paul Bayes Nov 27, 2022

Sorry, Mastodon, but I find you hard and a bit dry. I recognise that this may just be my age and general wetness. Anyway Post looks interesting if it’s not heretical to say so. Why not get yourself on the waiting list?
https://www.thewrap.com/what-is-post-twitter-alternative-news-social-media-mastodon/

What Is Post, the Twitter Alternative Gaining Traction With Journalists and News Hounds?

Here's everything you need to know about Post., the news-centric Twitter alternative whose waitlist is growing by the minute.

TheWrap

Paul Bayes Nov 26, 2022

“Remoaner!” - the politics of the infant playground. Meanwhile this is the reality. The Brexit fantasy has been comprehensively shown to be a failure. Time for this nation to renegotiate and to grow up.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/nov/26/brexit-britain-japan-trade-deal-exports-slump

Brexit blow: exports to Japan slump after ‘landmark’ free trade deal

First such accord after leaving EU was predicted to bring £15bn boost but UK now lags rivals

The Guardian

Paul Bayes Nov 24, 2022

Happy #Thanksgiving2022 to all US friends and colleagues! Praying that this coming year you may see more and more for which to give thanks to God, and that you (like us in the UK) may have strength and skill to work for justice and dream the common good, with a thankful heart.

Paul Bayes Nov 23, 2022

On being LGBT+ in so many Christian homes in the US. Or anywhere else. Meanwhile people keep “debating the issues” as if they were in a book.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/22/opinion/club-q-colorado-springs-james-dobson.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Opinion | Why the Shooting at Club Q Made Me Think of James Dobson

We protect ourselves. We’ll fight for our own. We’ll mourn. We’ll organize. And we’ll keep fighting, until all of us are safe, everywhere.

Paul Bayes Nov 22, 2022

Moderate. Yeah yeah.
Musk: “This is not a right-wing takeover of Twitter. It is a moderate-wing takeover”
“Musk reinstated accounts belonging to controversial figures, including former President Trump, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and rapper Ye…” https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3746765-musk-says-hes-done-with-twitter-layoffs/

Musk says he’s done with Twitter layoffs

Elon Musk is reportedly done with Twitter layoffs and is now looking to hire again after slashing nearly half of the company’s workforce earlier this month. According to information obtained by The Verge, Musk told employees during a meeting on Monday that the company was ceasing layoffs and actively hiring for positions specifically in sales…

The Hill

Paul Bayes Nov 22, 2022

Brilliant tour d’horizon, the best I’ve read on the US scene. Outstanding. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n23/adam-shatz/you-think-our-country-s-so-innocent

Adam Shatz · ‘You think our country’s so innocent?’: Polarised States of America · LRB 1 December 2022

Why were supporters of the Democrats – including seasoned election-watchers – so easily persuaded by Republican...

London Review of Books

Paul Bayes Nov 22, 2022

Know where you stand - and don’t cave in at the first sign of personal cost. Know where you stand, and stand there. Please don’t think I’m only talking about football. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/22/england-armband-yellow-card-onelove-qatar-world-cup

England’s armband activism was heroic – until it met the mere threat of a yellow card

Vague, hashtag-friendly and easy to take off: the OneLove armband was the perfect non-protest for the Qatar World Cup, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

The Guardian