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Amidst a non-stop media frenzy over one long weekend, Andy Burnham won the Makerfield by-election and, with support for his Prime Ministerial candidature growing (and support for the incumbent evaporating), Keir Starmer resigned. The new PM will be our seventh in ten years. On a human level, it is hard not to feel compassion for Mr Starmer. His job is surely like no other in terms of both workload and scrutiny. The cost he and his family carry on our behalf is huge, and it wa

On Saturday 11th April, engineers disconnected the mechanism of Big Ben’s western clockface so they can carry out weatherproofing repairs on that side of our capital’s famous clocktower without damaging the dial. Three of the four clockfaces are behaving perfectly normally, but the western dial of Elizabeth’s Tower is frozen at 12 o’clock, and will remain so until Tuesday 21st April. I noticed this when a friend of mine posted a video on her WhatsApp status on Tuesday 14th Ap

Realised eschatology, lost compassion, wilful blindness, and being all mixed up Introduction It was my wife who first alerted me to the storm brewing around Shawn Bolz that was rapidly drawing in Bethel Church, Redding. If you don’t know much about the furore, probably the best thing to do is watch the recent exposé video that brought the sad saga to a climax here . It was made by renowned and respected Bible teacher Mike Winger, and is very long, but it is certainly worth i