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Simon Fisher retweeted
Really great to be a part of this gathering today as we grapple with changes in contemporary burials
Jun 13
'Conserving the dead? Changes in law & regulation over the past decade'
Kicking off todays Ecclesiastical Law Society annual conference is Ian Blaney of @LBMWLAW as we spend the day reflecting on Burial Law and Churchyards: fit for the future?
#BurialLaw
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Jun 13
A walk across Green Park will be nice, I thought. I’ll be in plenty of time for my appointment, I thought.
But I chose the wrong day; reckoned without having to dodge the Metropolitan Police and the Brigade of Guards.
Happy Birthday to HM the King!
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Jun 13
I might have remembered had I been offered something in the Honours List. Just saying.
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Jun 12
Also tougher sentences for geography masters.
Jun 12
Realistically there’s only one era where we gave the Navy what they actually needed and I suspect it’s time to recreate the circumstances that forced us to properly supply our maritime defences.
Ladies and Gentlemen there’s only one thing for it, it’s time for war with France.
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Simon Fisher retweeted
Jun 12
In this week's Well-Tempered, I offer you the deep pastoral wisdom of Brother Cadfael.
@MadsDavies @simonsarmiento @ThinkAnglicans @WalkerMarcus @SaveTheParish
Link in comments.
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Simon Fisher retweeted
Jun 11
The BCP option is to use the Prayer before a Fight at Sea, subbing out ‘our enemies’ with the name of the opposing team.
A prayer for the World Cup 2026. ⚽
ALT A prayer for the World Cup God of glory, as the world gathers to celebrate the beautiful game, we pray for a harmonious and joyous World Cup. Bring safety and security for players and officials on the pitch, fans in the stands, and spectators at home. May we see and celebrate the hand of God in the creativity of every curving free kick, silky pass or impossible save. May we have compassion and perspective on the miskicks, missed penalties, and muddled VARs. Every winning team needs a losing team – even if you were the better team. Let the journey to World Cup glory be not only for the nation that wins. May we see something more of the world you want us to be: a gathering of every nation and people who share your glory. Amen.
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Simon Fisher retweeted
A composition that is unlikely to make it out of the group stage of liturgical greatness. Who writes this stuff?
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Simon Fisher retweeted
This redefinition of safeguarding is a terrible overreach. Every priest deals, most weeks, with people want things from the Church. And will weaponise their claim to be vulnerable in order to target the clergy to get what they want. When everything is safeguarding, nothing is.
Jun 6
This is incredibly important and Angela’s thread explains why. The Charity Commission is trying to move safeguarding from being laser-focused on children and vulnerable adults to being about everyone at all times. It will ow safeguarding in the CofE up completely.
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Simon Fisher retweeted
Interesting that this seems to go in a different direction to the recommendations produced by Prof Alexis Jay, commissioned by the Archbishops’ Council to review safeguarding - she called for a move to the statutory definition
The Church of England National Safeguarding Team is consulting on proposed changes to its safeguarding definitions and processes. The consultation closes on 12 June.
smartsurvey.co.uk/t/UD7PCT/
A thread after reading the draft.
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Simon Fisher retweeted
Jun 5
Is there a more lanyardist approach to the current crisis in state / populace relations than “ackshully you’re using the acronym in the wrong order”?
Jun 5
The constant banging on about DEI is an infuriating American import into the UK.
In the UK we call it EDI. And EDI training is essentially summed up like this:
‘Don’t be a knob to other people, and realise some people face barriers you don’t.’
It’s not some woke conspiracy.
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Jun 5
Thread.
The Church of England National Safeguarding Team is consulting on proposed changes to its safeguarding definitions and processes. The consultation closes on 12 June.
smartsurvey.co.uk/t/UD7PCT/
A thread after reading the draft.
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Simon Fisher retweeted
May 29
Oak Apple Day 2026
Invited to dinner on this glorious celebration of the Restoration of the King and Church of England, I'm informed that an old Sussex tradition may be enforced, whereby those not wearing a sprig of oak were rudely reminded of their error:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Ap…
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May 29
Happy Oak Apple Day! May all the grisly and heretical Puritan interludes of your life end with the happy Restoration of days of cavalier merriment, risqué stage frolics, and High Church rectitude!
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A rare albino buffalo in Bangladesh — nicknamed 'Donald Trump' for its distinctive blond tuft — has been spared from Eid al-Adha sacrifice after a last-minute government intervention, a Home Ministry official said reut.rs/4utVg7Q
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Simon Fisher retweeted
Imagine if Sir Keir had been PM in the early 2000s, & Sir Tony PM today… my latest for @unherd 👇
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May 19
Chester diocese: "Good clergy, well trained & with high morale, are at the heart of the DBF’s purpose. We must ensure that we can continue to raise the money to keep as many as possible in post, for the sake of the Church, the Gospel, &vthe people and communities of the Diocese"
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May 19
I used to be Vicar of a chunk of the Makerfield Constituency.
Talk of victimised communities can be patronising: Coal and Cotton were the Kings of the North, funding e.g. much council housing.
Wigan dug up all her coal.
A brave candidate might push for fracking the Bowland Basin.
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Simon Fisher retweeted
May 14
The local elections in one chart. Labour has been squeezed between the Greens in young wards and Reform in older working-class wards
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May 12
the general public overestimate the margins businesses make
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