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
The Eleventh Hour Sometimes God does something unusual to get our attention. When trained military horses brought blood and disruption onto our capital’s streets last April, and Big Ben simultaneously stopped then chimed the eleventh hour an hour early, some sat up and took notice. Even secular newspapers made a link with Revelation 6, where horses symbolise future shortages, violence and a great sword of death. Within a week, there were three major stabbings across the UK (o
