The signs that Europe really is doomed – and taking Britain down with it..
The Continent is stuck on a path of disastrous decline. Only a full-blown crisis can save it now.
Monday, December 15, 2025
The EU's Inexorable Progress Down The Toilet. (Mainly leftists want us to rejoin this sinking ship.)
The EU's share of global GDP has consistently declined over the last 20 years, as the economies of other nations, particularly China, have grown at a faster rate. Around 2002, the EU's share of global GDP (in PPP terms) was nearly 20%, falling to approximately 14.33% by 2024.
While I cannot generate an interactive graph, the general trend is a steady downward slope. Visualizations from sources like the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Statista illustrate this shift, often comparing the EU's share with the stable US share and the significantly increasing Chinese share.
The Dutch Reach Out.
Dutch Christian military network seeks to expand reach to armed forces personnel
- 20 Nov, 2025 20:40 EST
The Nederlandse Christenmilitairen Ontmoetingskring (NCOK), a supportive network for Christian personnel in the Dutch Armed Forces, hopes to expand its reach and ministry across the nation's military community. CD.
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I Am Not Pleased.
The left were the loudest of all the 'green voices' pressing us into buying an EV. They told us of all the savings we would make!
Well. I bought an EV and the very same hypocrites are going to make me pay 3p a mile to use it. How do they sleep at night?
All of this is taking place as their ''Climate Zero' exaggerated claims are allowed to run riot.
Daniel Chapter 3.
Summary of Daniel Chapter 3.
- The King's Command: King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon erected a massive gold image (about 90 feet high) on the plain of Dura and commanded all government officials and people to bow down and worship it when specific musical instruments played. The penalty for disobedience was to be thrown into a blazing furnace.
- The Refusal: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, three Jewish officials who were friends of Daniel, refused to worship the idol, as it would violate the first two of the Ten Commandments. They calmly told the king that their God was able to save them, but even if He chose not to, they would still not serve his gods or worship the image.
- The Fiery Furnace: Enraged, Nebuchadnezzar ordered the furnace to be heated seven times hotter than usual. The men were bound and thrown into the fire, which was so hot that the soldiers who threw them in were killed by the flames.
- The Miracle: King Nebuchadnezzar was astonished to see four men unbound and walking in the fire, completely unharmed. He described the appearance of the fourth man as "like a son of the gods".
- The Outcome: The king called the men out of the furnace. They were physically untouched, without even the smell of fire on them. Nebuchadnezzar then praised the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego and issued a decree that no one in his kingdom should speak against their God. He also promoted the three men.
Why Must We Live In A World Which Sells Out To Terrorism?
Let's have no more crocodile tears. This is what’s meant by "globalise the intifada"
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We all knew this would happen again. They all knew it would happen again. They did nothing to stop it.
In a horrific terrorist attack on Jews celebrating the first night of Chanukah in Australia on Sydney’s Bondi beach, at least 12 people have been murdered, including children and a rabbi, and at least 30 others wounded.
Details of the attack are still emerging. One of the two terrorists, pictured here randomly shooting at Jewish celebrants from a bridge, was a 24 year-old man named as Naveed Akram who was shot and is now in custody. The second gunman was shot dead. A man who was videoed disarming one of the shooters with his bare hands and was shot by the second terrorist was named Ahmed al Ahmad.
Later, it was reported that a number of suspicious items had been found near the bridge where the gunmen opened fire, including an improvised explosive device.
This atrocity is unspeakable. Once again Jews have been left full of grief, full of anguish, full of rage after yet another atrocity taking innocent Jewish lives simply because they were Jews.
Bondi beach has been the most open symbol of Australia’s most open society — an icon of its great outdoors, of sunshine and health, of happiness and innocence; a place where you take children to enjoy themselves, as so many were taken to the Chanukah menorah lighting on the beach.
Now Bondi beach joins the grim litany of places that have become synonyms for depraved attacks on Jews — Manchester’s Heaton Park synagogue where two Jews were killed on Yom Kippur, Park East synagogue on Manhattan’s Upper East Side which was targeted by a violent mob held back by police, and the October 7 2023 massacres in Israel, whose scenes of gunmen roaming around looking for Jews to pick off was chillingly replicated on Bondi beach.
Since the October 7 pogrom, there’s. been a global onslaught against Jews. Jewish artists have been cancelled, Jewish students intimidated on campus, Jewish patients in Britain treated by nurses sporting a “Palestine” lapel pin — the latter-day equivalent of the swastika.
In restaurants in London, New York, Athens and elsewhere, Jewish diners have been harassed. In July 2025, an Israeli-owned restaurant in Melbourne was stormed by anti-Israel protesters. Today, hours after the Bondi beach massacre, marchers in the British Midlands city of Birmingham marched behind a banner demanding“intifada revolution” and chanting “globalise the intifada”. The Bondi beach massacre is exactly what these slogans mean.
Since October 7 2023, antisemitism has been roaring out of control in Australia. Synagogues have been firebombed and vandalised, vehicles set on fire, Jewish businesses boycotted and hateful graffiti sprayed on Jewish homes and schools.
Israeli officials have given the Australian government countless warnings about rampant Jew-hatred in Australia and where this would almost certainly lead. Australia’s prime minister, Anthony Albanese, merely responded by pouring petrol on the flames.
Astonishingly, in his original statement after the after the Bondi beach atrocity he called the attack “shocking and distressing” but failed to mention antisemitism or that that the target was a Jewish event. He said that “antisemitism led to terrorism” and “targeted the innocent” only after protests by Australia’s Jewish community.
At a press conference, a reporter asked him whether he had taken the threat of antisemitism seriously, since his record included recognising a “State of Palestine,” his senior ministers had refused to visit the October 7 massacre sites in Israel, and he had created an anti “Islamophobia” envoy alongside one for antisemitism.
To which Albanese unblushingly declared that he had taken antisemitism very seriously. It’s doubtful whether he even understands what that means.
After Australia recognised “Palestine,” Rabbi Eli Schlanger, a rabbi and emissary with the Chabad Jewish religious outreach organisation, sent a letter to Albanese calling on him to reverse the decision and urging him not to betray the Jewish people.
Rabbi Schlanger was murdered on Bondi beach.
Along with numerous notorious antisemites on social media, other political leaders have been busily laundering themselves all day by shedding crocodile tears over the Bondi beach atrocity.
Britain’s prime minister Keir Starmer eventually mentioned the a-word when he posted on X :
The news that the Bondi beach attack was an antisemitic terrorist attack against Jewish families at a Chanukah event is sickening
and then posted further:
Antisemitism has no place in our society. We stand in solidarity with the Jewish community, today and every day.
But it does, and he doesn’t. Faced with the eye-watering and demonstrably ludicrous lies being promulgated about Israel — that it caused starvation and famine in Gaza, that most of those it was wantonly killing in the war were Gazan civilians and children, that it was committing genocide and ethnic cleansing — any civilised political leader would have stated that these were indeed all lies and should not be believed, and were being put out by the enemies of civilisation itself.
Instead, along with Albanese, Canada’s prime minister Mark Carney and French president Emmanuel Macron, Starmer recycled exactly the same lies that were inciting Jew-hatred by casting the Israelis — and by extension, all Jews — as the most evil people in the world. When Starmer also recognised “Palestine”, Hamas actually thanked him and gloated that this proved the October 7 attack on Israel had worked.
If Starmer, Albanese et al really wanted to protect their Jewish communities — along with everyone else — against Islamist attack, they would ban the Muslim Brotherhood. Which they steadfastly refuse to do, inciting against Israel instead.
These leaders are beyond despicable. They vilify and act against Israel for daring to defend itself while consistently siding with the truly genocidal Palestinian Arabs, funding, sanitising and inciting their murderous attacks. They have been fanning the flames of rampant Jew-hatred within their own domestic Muslim communities, inciting hatred of Israel and Jews among the rest of their own societies, and allowing hate marches to chant on their streets for the murder of Jews on the grounds of freedom of speech.
The UN has also contributed to this incitement. In May, Tom Fletcher, a UN humanitarian coordinator, told BBC Radio 4:
There are 14,000 babies that will die in the next 48 hours unless we can reach them.
They didn’t. It was a foul lie. It inspired baseless hatred of Israel and all who support it. And the mainstream media, which amplified this and countless other such lies and distortions defaming and delegitimising Israel and never correcting them when they were also shown be false, have acted as the propaganda arm of Hamas and so have this Jewish blood on their hands, too.
Antisemitism is always with us. The most that Jews can hope is that a civilised society will excommunicate it from the public space. Instead, all the guardrails against against Jew hatred have been dismantled. As a result, antisemitism has been normalised.
On social media, the defamation of Israel and Jews has been fuelled by Iranian, Russian, and Chinese state-linked bots, which have exploited Gaza as a means of destabilising western societies. These regimes have all understood how easily such lies could colonise the minds of so many in the west because they’ve been primed by an entire culture to believe them.
This will be the undoing of the west itself, the real target of the Islamists and others in this axis of evil.
In Britain, America and elsewhere, there will be many public ceremonies tonight to light the first candle of the eight-day Chanukah festival. Jews everywhere should go to these ceremonies. As Chabad said in a defiant statement after the murder of its emissary on Bondi beach:
The response to terror is not retreat, but resolve.
Chanukah celebrates the Jewish rebellion in 167 BCE, led by the Maccabees against the oppression of the Greek Seleucid empire, that re-established the Jewish kingdom of Judea.
Every civilisation that’s tried to destroy the Jews has disappeared. The Jewish people has survived them all. Despite the centuries of exile, vilification, persecution, extermination and genocide, we are still here. The Jews are the eternal people. The Bondi beach atrocity was a shock, but not a surprise. In every generation they rise up against us. They will never defeat us.
Sunday, December 14, 2025
St Hilda.
Who was Hilda of Whitby and why is she important?
St Hilda founded the original Whitby Abbey. The stone ruins that remain today are from a later reconstruction. (Photo: Getty/iStock)19 November is the day when Anglicans remember St Hilda of Whitby. She was a powerful and important woman in the history of the English Church. This is her story.
The Spread of Christianity in England
In the seventh century, what we now call England was made up of several kingdoms. The southern Anglo-Saxon kingdoms — Kent and later East Anglia, Wessex (the West Saxons), Sussex (the South Saxons), and the Isle of Wight—had become Christian through the efforts of Pope Gregory I, with ecclesiastical authority centred at Canterbury.
Meanwhile, the northern kingdoms north of the River Humber were slowly converting to Christianity through missions from both the Saxon south and the Celtic Christian centres of Iona and Lindisfarne. The northern kingdoms of Deira (from the rivers Humber to the Tyne) and Bernicia (from the rivers Tyne to the Forth) later combined to form Northumbria (literally “the land north of the Humber”), which covered much of what later became Yorkshire. Between the north and south lay the still largely pagan kingdom of Mercia, covering the English Midlands.
Family History
Hilda was born into this world as the great-niece of King Edwin of Deira. In AD 627 the family converted to Christianity through the preaching of St Paulinus, who had been sent from Kent. The family, including Hilda — then 13 years old — was baptised by Paulinus at York, which became the ecclesiastical centre of northern England.
King Edwin was succeeded by King Oswald, who also converted to Christianity and encouraged Irish Gaelic-speaking missionaries under St Aidan. Oswald gave them the island of Lindisfarne as a base.
Meanwhile Hilda’s sister Hereswith married Ethelhere of East Anglia and later became a nun at Chelles in Gaul. Hilda followed her to East Anglia, but St Aidan recalled her.
Abbess Hilda
Hilda first became a nun on the northern bank of the River Wear, and afterwards an abbess at Hartlepool. An abbot ruled a house of monks and an abbess ruled a house of nuns. In ancient times, particularly in the Celtic tradition, there were double monasteries containing both monks and nuns, ruled either by an abbot or an abbess. In those days, when priests and bishops could only be male, the role of abbess was the most powerful position a woman could hold within the Church.
In 657, Hilda founded a double monastery at Streanæshalch (now Whitby) on the North Sea coast of what is now North Yorkshire. Under her leadership, Whitby Abbey became a great centre of learning. In the days before printing, books were hand-copied and expensive; Hilda developed a monastic library, and Whitby became known for studying the Scriptures (then only available in Latin). Such was the abbey’s reputation that five of its monks later became bishops, most notably St Wilfrid, who became Bishop of York.
Different Christian Traditions
In Northumbria, two traditions of Christianity existed side by side: the Celtic tradition of the native British and Irish, and the Roman Catholic tradition. Although they shared the same fundamental beliefs, the same Bible, and the Latin language, there were differences. One major difference was the calculation of the date of Easter. The Celtic tradition based Easter on the Jewish Passover, whereas the Roman Church followed the ruling of the Synod of Nicaea (AD 325). This meant Christians within the same kingdom could be celebrating Easter at different times.
The Synod of Whitby
The issue came to a head under King Oswiu (also spelled Oswy or Oswig) of Northumbria, who became king after his brother Oswald in 642. Both brothers had been raised in the Celtic Christian tradition and spoke Gaelic as well as Anglo-Saxon. They kept Easter according to the Celtic calendar. However, Oswiu’s wife, Queen Eanflaed, whose mother was from Kent, followed the Roman dating of Easter. This created tensions because much of the liturgical year depends on the date of Easter — setting the dates of Lent and Pentecost — so one spouse might be fasting while the other was feasting.
In 664, King Oswiu called a meeting of representatives from both Christian traditions to resolve the issue. This gathering became known as the Synod of Whitby.
Abbess Hilda agreed to host the synod. She and her abbey followed the Celtic calculation of Easter. Arguments for the Celtic side were presented by Colman, Bishop of Lindisfarne; arguments for the Roman side were presented by Wilfrid. Bishop Colman defended the Ionan calculation of Easter. Wilfrid argued for the Roman position and the authority of St Peter.
Hilda advocated unity and humility, demonstrating a commitment to “make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace” (Ephesians 4:3). Though she personally seems to have preferred Celtic customs, she accepted the decision for the sake of wider Church unity.
Underlying the debate was a deeper question: should the English Church follow the traditions of Celtic saints like Aidan and Columba, or align with the authority and customs of the Roman Church and with the southern Anglo-Saxon kingdoms?
After the synod, York became the ecclesiastical centre of Northumbria and was made an archbishopric in AD 735. This is why the Church of England still has two archbishops today.
Wisdom and Influence
After the Synod of Whitby, Hilda became famed for her wisdom and was sought out by rulers and spiritual leaders. The Venerable Bede admired her, describing her as a “mother” to many, echoing Proverbs 31:26: “She speaks with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue.” Under her guidance, Whitby became a centre of learning and nurtured talents such as Cædmon, the earliest English Christian poet — thus living out the call to “fan into flame the gift of God” (2 Timothy 1:6).
Much of what we know about Hilda comes from Bede’s writings.
Death
Hilda died on 17 November AD 680. Soon after her death she was venerated as a saint in Anglo-Saxon England due to her holiness, wisdom, and role as abbess of Whitby Abbey. She was never formally canonised by the Catholic Church but is generally recognised as a saint. Her day of remembrance is the date of her death, on or near 17 November. The Catholic Church commemorates her on 17 November, some parts of the Anglican Communion on 18 November, and the Church of England now on 19 November.
Church Dedications
There are a dozen or more old English churches dedicated to St Hilda along the northeast coast, for example St Hilda's at South Shields where she founded a monastery.
St Hilda’s College, Oxford — founded in 1893 as a women-only college until 2008 — was named in her honour.
Collect
The Anglican collect for Hilda of Whitby is:
“Eternal God, who made the abbess Hilda to shine like a jewel in our land and through her holiness and leadership blessed your Church with new life and unity:
help us, like her, to yearn for the gospel of Christ and to reconcile those who are divided;
through him who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.”
Hilda’s Blessing
Written in her honour by Barrie Williams:
“Have peace with one another as children of one mother.
Let each defer to other and may your hearts be one.
Have peace with all around you; sweet love of earth surround you;
and may no harm confound you or break the peace within.
Have peace with God your maker. In Jesus be partaker and Spirit consecrator.
God, Three in One, grant peace.
The peace of God possess you. The love of God caress you.
The grace of heaven bless you; peace everlastingly.” CT.
Heartwarming.
International Men's Day? - THAT Was Kept Pretty Quiet! - I've Only Just Found Out!
Celebrating men and boys on International Men’s Day
19 Nov, 2025 15:45 ESTInternational Men’s Day is being marked today, Nov. 19, with events across the world highlighting the theme “Celebrating Men and Boys” and drawing renewed attention to the contributions, needs, and well-being of men. Launched in 1999, the annual observance has expanded into a global initiative recognized in more than 80 countries. CD.
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A Christian Response.
Pope Leo Declines to Pray at Istanbul’s Blue Mosque During Apostolic Visit to Turkey.
Abdulhamid Hosbas/Anadolu via Getty ImagesBreaking with his predecessors, Pope Leo XIV declined to pray at the Blue Mosque of Istanbul on Saturday as he continued his first international tour as the Bishop of Rome.
In a show of respect, Pope Leo removed his shoes and toured the 17th-century mosque in his white socks; however, unlike Pope Benedict and Pope Francis before him, the recently selected pontiff declined an invitation to pray at the Sultan Ahmed Mosque on the third day of his Apostolic Visit to Turkey, a former Christian epicentre now comprised of 99.8 per cent Muslims.
Breitbart.
Singing to serve!
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