King's Sells Out Defending The Christian Faith. This Royalist Blogger Will Now Support Abolition Of Monarchy As No Longer Fit For Purpose!

Former Queen's chaplain: King Charles has betrayed his faith, office and subjects.

King Charles at a Christian Advent service. (Photo: ACN)

A former royal chaplain has accused King Charles III of betraying his faith, office and subjects by pledging to “protect the space for Faith within the multi-faith nation”.

Traditionally, British monarchs have borne the title “Defender of the Faith”. The title predates both the United Kingdom and the Anglican split from Rome, being conferred upon Henry VIII by Pope Leo X in 1521.

Many years prior to his ascension to the throne, King Charles indicated that he wished to be the defender of faith in general, rather than purely the Church of England, which he heads. In the end he kept the traditional wording at his 2023 coronation.

The apparent official shift in stance took place in the Sovereign Grant report 2025-26. In the 2024-25 report, where "Head of the Church of England and Defender of the Faith" were listed among the King’s duties. In the latest report this has been changed to "His Majesty is Supreme Governor of the Church of England and protects the space for Faith within the multi-faith nation."

Gavin Ashenden, who served as chaplain to the late Queen Elizabeth II from 2008 to 2017, said that in making the changes the King had downgraded the faith he swore to protect in his coronation oaths.

Writing on Substack, Ashenden said, “What appears to be an adjustment of his coronation oaths, is in fact a betrayal of his office, of his Christian faith, and that of his subjects."

Elaborating, Ashenden described the idea “that there are many gods and that they are all equal; you can adopt any one of them, or any combination of them, that you like” as an assault “against the authority of Jesus” and as “dangerous and inimical to Christ, to what He taught, and to those who follow Him".

Ashenden was for decades an ordained member of the Church of England. In 2017 he resigned his post as chaplain to the Queen so that he could give free public comment on Christianity. Soon afterwards he also resigned his Anglican orders and joined the Christian Episcopal Church. In 2019 Ashenden was received into the Catholic Church.

CT.

Apparently, This Man Wants The Top Job In NATO.

                                                             Is this a sick joke?

Labour Does SOMETHING Right!!! - And Astonishingly - It Was David Lammy!

Labour Does SOMETHING Right!!! - And. Astonishingly. It was David Lammy!

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jul/01/imagine-this-was-your-daughter-grieiving-mothers-campaigned-close-sentencing-gap

Blessed Are ...

Get Rescued.

 

Birdies.

 

Marmot Relaxing.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEX1_NYoPls

Colombia.

Targeted and unprotected: Take action for Colombia’s religious leaders. ‘Colombia has returned to levels of violence reminiscent of the darkest days of the country’s decades-long internal conflict.’ – Anna Lee Stangl, CSW’s Director of Advocacy and Americas Team Leader Violence has intensified, yet religious leaders have been left exposed. In 2023, the government removed them from its list of vulnerable groups — cutting off access to vital protection programmes. Since December 2024, 11 religious leaders have been kidnapped or killed. It doesn’t have to be this way. The Colombian government can help shield religious leaders by restoring and strengthening these protections. That’s what we are calling for — and you can be part of it. Sign the petition and demand protection for religious leaders: csw.org.uk/TotalPeace Over 900 people have already added their name. Will you help us reach 1,000? You can also download resources to help your church or small group get involved.

CSW.

Hmm. Could The RC Be Going The Way of The Anglicans?

Rebel faction of conservative 'bishops' breakaway from Catholic Church in revolt against Pope Leo.

A group of traditionalist Catholic worshippers have revolted against Pope Leo XIV by consecrating four bishops.

The Society of St Pius X held the ceremony on Wednesday in the Swiss town

 of Écône despite an appeal from the Pontiff to not continue with the event.

In a letter to the group, Pope Leo urged them to "turn back" and to carefully

 consider the "schismatic act you are about to undertake".

Vatican officials had warned the consecration could lead to the immediate excommunication of the bishops.

Success For This Blog.

June has been a mighty time for this Blog with a new record of over 1.2 million visits to the site in June of 2026.

Tribunals - In Their Present Form - MUST Go! - AWESOME Reporting, Alan!

Britain’s addiction to tribunals is bankrupting the country.

Canadian businessman Alan Hibben has unpicked the UK’s culture of complaining and found a parallel justice system that wastes time and money

Alan Hibben

Published 23 June 2026 2:00pm BST

As a Canadian businessman resident in the UK for my wife’s job, I have become very interested in the things that have made this once-great country the disaster that it is today. I don’t want to pick on the UK, as Canada has many of its own examples of things not working. But now, as I am in my 70s and don’t work full-time, I have had more time to look in detail at the causes of Britain’s decline.

That is how I noticed one glaring issue that, so far, no one has sought to address – the country has become suffocated by tribunals, which are driven by a culture of constant complaining.

I became aware of the scale of the problem after a friend who works in asset management told me about how he had been caught up in an employment tribunal. A young man who was a contract employee was, for various reasons, passed over for a full-time staff job. So he did what English people do, which is complain to an employment tribunal. Given the fact that he didn’t get the full-time job, he asked the tribunal to award him the salary of the full-time job for the rest of his life – the equivalent of a few million pounds.

The company was quite concerned about the claim and fought it. By the end, they were down several hundred thousand pounds in legal fees and various other costs, while the complainant didn’t pay a penny. For the most part, he represented himself. Eventually, he was awarded around £20,000 for “injury to feelings” because he claimed some of his colleagues were mean to him. He felt he had been discriminated against because he was male and from an ethnic minority background. That’s when I started to think, “In what other areas of life are tribunals being used this way?”

I found out that my friend’s case was the tip of the iceberg. More than 80 statutory regimes – from tax to benefits to child support – have an accompanying tribunal system, and the result is a tremendous waste of time, effort and money. Over the past 30 years, the tribunals have become a sprawling parallel justice system that covers issues, including employment, immigration and Freedom of Information requests.

The tribunal system was actually designed to streamline cases that didn’t need to go to court, and to keep matters that were too small to justify the expense out of the justice system. Now, it is so inefficient, costly and suffocating that it has had the opposite effect.

I’ve now written a report on this titled, Suffocated by Tribunals,

As a Canadian businessman resident in the UK for my wife’s job, I have become very interested in the things that have made this once-great country the disaster that it is today. I don’t want to pick on the UK, as Canada has many of its own examples of things not working. But now, as I am in my 70s and don’t work full-time, I have had more time to look in detail at the causes of Britain’s decline.

That is how I noticed one glaring issue that, so far, no one has sought to address – the country has become suffocated by tribunals, which are driven by a culture of constant complaining.

I became aware of the scale of the problem after a friend who works in asset management told me about how he had been caught up in an employment tribunal. A young man who was a contract employee was, for various reasons, passed over for a full-time staff job. So he did what English people do, which is complain to an employment tribunal. Given the fact that he didn’t get the full-time job, he asked the tribunal to award him the salary of the full-time job for the rest of his life – the equivalent of a few million pounds.

The company was quite concerned about the claim and fought it. By the end, they were down several hundred thousand pounds in legal fees and various other costs, while the complainant didn’t pay a penny. For the most part, he represented himself. Eventually, he was awarded around £20,000 for “injury to feelings” because he claimed some of his colleagues were mean to him. He felt he had been discriminated against because he was male and from an ethnic minority background. That’s when I started to think, “In what other areas of life are tribunals being used this way?”

I found out that my friend’s case was the tip of the iceberg. More than 80 statutory regimes – from tax to benefits to child support – have an accompanying tribunal system, and the result is a tremendous waste of time, effort and money. Over the past 30 years, the tribunals have become a sprawling parallel justice system that covers issues, including employment, immigration and Freedom of Information requests.

The tribunal system was actually designed to streamline cases that didn’t need to go to court, and to keep matters that were too small to justify the expense out of the justice system. Now, it is so inefficient, costly and suffocating that it has had the opposite effect.

I’ve now written a report on this titled, Suffocated by Tribunals, with Robert Colvile, the director of the Centre for Policy Studies. In it, we say that Britain has convinced itself that the mark of a civilised society is the right to challenge everything, at someone else’s expense. This is not access to justice in any real sense – it is the industrialisation of grievance.Much of the problem is driven by a culture of complaint. People think, “You owe me something. You’ve got money, I don’t have money, therefore you must owe me something.”There is a legal aspect to it, too. The tribunal system puts complainants in a very powerful position, as there are asymmetric incentives. It often costs a complainant nothing to take an issue to most tribunals, yet it costs companies, councils or public bodies thousands of pounds in non-recoverable costs.Take an immigration tribunal. It costs nothing for someone who has been denied the right to remain in Britain to appeal an asylum decision, even if they don’t have a particularly strong case, because they’ve usually got a lawyer on a “no win, no fee” basis, or legal aid. So their gamble is effectively being funded by the state. The upside for them is massive, as they could gain residency. And the downside for them is nil, as they will pay nothing even if they lose.

A huge industry has sprung up around it. Somebody has to skim off the money, and in this case, most of the time, it’s the lawyers. I don’t want to criticise them, as they are professionals, but the incentive is obviously for them to continue trying to squeeze out what they can get for their client.

There are many such examples from employment tribunals where, as in asylum cases, the person complaining often pays nothing, not even if they lose. The company they have complained about, meanwhile, will have spent between £7,200 and £50,000 before the first witness is called, according to our research – and that is just for the most marginal cases. In fact, many cases that are heard in tribunals should have been thrown out before they reached that stage – a point that presiding judges often make themselves. It is an own goal.

Over the course of working on our report, we came across countless, staggering examples of wasted resources. In one property dispute from January of this year, where a landlord had claimed £47,000 from leaseholders in service charges, these costs were reduced by just £400 – after a full tribunal that would have cost many multiples of the sum awarded. There may have been no other way to solve this other than through a tribunal, but it does make you wonder whether a better triage system is needed.

In another case against HMRC, a group of opportunistic taxpayers who had used stamp duty land tax avoidance schemes were awarded £1 after a costly full hearing. They claimed they had been unfairly investigated by the taxman and appealed for costs amounting to over £80,000. The tribunal upheld their appeal, but only on a technicality. Ultimately, the taxpayers weren’t entitled to the stamp duty land tax relief – they had just got lucky (hence the award of only £1). But, because the claimants won, the costs were paid by HMRC.

These pale in comparison with an example from the Information Tribunal (formerly known as the Data Protection Tribunal), where an individual had waged a one-man war against various public bodies for 30 years. He had been making information requests, demanding investigations and appeals from a university, then a council, since 1992. This continued until a tribunal found a way to stop it. Again, the complainant never paid a penny.

We settled on including just a few examples in the report, as there were so many, and so many of them were completely farcical. Others, meanwhile, just show a system that is failing at its core. Special educational needs and disabilities (Send) is another area I focus on, because the Government or local councils lose up to 95 per cent of cases brought by parents over provision, funding and alleged discrimination against their children.

The public sector wastes £60m to 80m a year on such disputes, and the law makes it virtually impossible for a Send case to be overturned. The problem there isn’t the tribunal itself – it is the system that underpins it. And yet applications have risen exponentially in recent years – they held steady at 3,000 to 4,000 per year until 2016, but last year hit 23,861. There have been 21,344 in the first nine months of this year.

I believe much of this could quite easily be addressed. In previous decades, when a small fee was introduced for tribunals, it decreased the case load dramatically. For example, when employment tribunal fees were introduced in 2013, claims fell by 69 per cent. Then, when the Supreme Court struck them down in 2017, claims rose by 39 per cent.

Some of these things are real problems that need real solutions. The focus must be on them. Until it shifts, every day there will be another crop of cases that cost an awful lot of money yet will get nowhere.

DT.

Indeed.

 

Fulani Terrorists Kill Even More Christians.

 

• Fulani terrorists kill 28 Christians in central Nigeria

  Africa  Religious Freedom

  25 Jun, 2026 13:35 EDT

  Fulani herdsmen guided toward Christian leaders on Monday (June 22) killed 28 Christians, including a pastor, in a raid on a village in Plateau state, Nigeria, sources said. CD.

Birdie.

 

So Many Do Not Even Recognise The War Being Waged Against Us.

 The restoration of the West can't happen without Christianity - and more people are realising it!

Europe  Society & Culture

26 Jun, 2026 02:45 EDT

If day one of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference focused on the deconstruction of Western civilization, day two turned to the equally challenging question: what will it take to rebuild it? CD.

Pembrokeshire County Council. Pah!

Church in Wales threatens legal action over attempt to secularise faith school.

Cilgerran Voluntary Controlled Primary School. (Photo: Church in Wales)

The Church in Wales is threatening legal action against Pembrokeshire County Council if it persists with a plan to remove church status from Cilgerran Voluntary Controlled Primary School.

The Church said the plan represents a threat to church education in the county, which is also the birthplace of Wales’ patron saint, David. Additionally, the Church noted that 97 per cent of responses to the consultation on the proposal opposed the plan.

The Church argued that removing church status from the school in such a manner was discrimination against faith schooling. 

In response, the Church has said it will not make the school grounds available to a subsequent secular school. This would effectively mean that a school has been closed down, rather than changing the nature of an existing school.

The Church suggested that the council has a poor record when it comes to supporting faith schools, pointing to the case of Manorbier Church in Wales Voluntary Controlled School which the council decided to close earlier this month. Students numbers had been declining since a fire damaged the school in 2022, with remaining students using temporary accommodation for much of their education.

Despite apparently receiving promises from the council that the school would be rebuilt, nothing was done and the school has declined to the point where closure is seen as the only viable option.

A spokesperson for the Church in Wales said, “Pembrokeshire County Council’s behaviour in the case of Manorbier VC School has been utterly unconscionable. The Council has presided over a catalogue of delay, incompetence and broken promises resulting in the literal destruction of a thriving school which has served its community for more than 150 years. 

“Taken together with the gratuitous attack on the church status of Ysgol Cilgerran, this amounts to a targeted assault on the inclusive Christian education which Church in Wales schools have provided to their communities for generations.

“That the council should be pursuing this potentially discriminatory action against Church schools in the county which is the cradle of Christianity in Wales, and which takes pride in being the birthplace and shrine of our nation’s Patron Saint, is a bitter irony.  We are not prepared to allow it to happen and we look to the county’s elected representatives to halt this destructive course of action.” 

The council has been approached for comment. CT.

Faith Is The Key.

 Faith is the key to the West’s renewal, says Os Guinness.

By Christian Today Jun 29, 2026 04:34 EDT 4 mins read

Os Guinness delivering the closing address to the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship's 2026 conference at the London Olympia. (Photo: Parsons Media)

Esteemed theologian Os Guinness closed out the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference in London last night with a call to the West to return to its biblical foundations. 

Guinness said the challenge of the day was to build “a global, human-friendly future, not just for England or America or Europe, but for people all around the world longing for a world with a high view of the sanctity of life, of the dignity of the individual person, of equality and dignity for all, and liberty and justice for all”. 

That will not happen if society only turns to “the easy, the convenient, the fashionable and the comfortable”. Nor will it happen without faith.  CD.

Has He Ever Been On Our Side?

 Starmer short-changes defence in final act as Prime Minister..

Military spending will reach only 2.69 per cent of GDP by 2030, far behind Germany’s 3.7 per cent and Poland’s 4.48 per cent. DT.

Isn't This Deplorable Attitude Called Racism?

‘You Lost!’ Leftist French Lawmaker Celebrates Demographic Decline of White Population.

Thomas SAMSON / AFP via Getty Images

Kurt Zindulka

27 Jun 2026

A far-left National Assembly member has sparked backlash after she gloated over the demographic decline of the native white French population in favour of immigrant groups, as the LFI continues to embrace Great Replacement ideology.

During a debate in the National Assembly this week on legislation intended to crack down on fraudulent or arranged marriages, MP Clémence Guetté of the radical leftist La France Insoumise (France in Rebellion/LFI) party, declared that alleged efforts to preserve the French ethnicity have failed.

“You have lost the racist ideological battle. Today, one in three French people is already linked to immigration,” she celebrated, according to Le Journal du Dimanche.

The deputy accused the populist National Rally party of Marine Le Pen and the conservative Union of the Right for the Republic (UDR) party of Éric Ciotti of seeking to protect the ” so-called native French” population, which she equated to “white French people”.

Guetté further claimed that the anti-fraud legislation was merely intended to “throw obstacles” in front of migrants who wish to “build their lives in our country, get married, start a family”, and take part in “today’s citizenship.”

It comes amid a broader move among La France Insoumise to openly embrace the concepts of “New France” and the “Great Replacement”, a term coined by French philosopher Renaud Camus, who accused Western elites of viewing citizens of their nations as interchangeable economic units that can be swapped out for less expensive, foreign alternatives with little consequence. Breitbart.

I Love My Lord.

Butterfly.

 

A Great Captain Retires.

Every word from Ben Stokes’ retirement explanation.

England captain revealed thinking behind decision in lengthy interview with Sky Sports’ Ian Ward and former team-mate Stuart Broad.

Will MacphersonDeputy Cricket Correspondent

Will Macpherson covers the international and domestic game, and is based in London. See more 

Published 28 June 2026 11:13pm BST

Ben Stokes spoke to Sky Sports presenter Ian Ward and former team-mate-turned-pundit Stuart Broad on Sunday Credit: Philip Brown/Getty Images

Ben Stokes announced his retirement from international cricket midway through day four of England’s third Test decider against New Zealand.

The news left the Trent Bridge crowd – and English cricket’s wider fanbase – stunned, with a statement being published by the England and Wales Cricket Board 15 minutes before the tea break.

Afterwards, Stokes revealed his reasons for the sudden announcement in an interview with Sky Sports presenter Ian Ward and former team-mate-turned-pundit Stuart Broad, with Monday now due to be the final day of his 13-year international career. Here is every word he had to say.

On the decision and his emotions...

“It’s been an interesting four-five weeks, and six months generally. Emotions when this day comes to everyone there’s relief, happiness, excitement, sadness everything you go through. All of those words I use there.

“It’s been really tough. I am sure a lot of, not necessarily players but captains can understand this. Someone I’ve spoken to quite a lot about this kind of stuff is Joe [Root] about this, he gets it, he understands it. It’s the best thing I’ve ever been asked to do, to captain this team and my country. I never begrudge any moment I’ve captained this team – it’s been the greatest honour you can put on your shoulders as a player

“There’s another side to it that only those people close can understand and see – my family, and particularly wife, they see what you go through emotionally. As good as it is, it can drain you and affect you in negative ways. Overall, it’s been four or five years, and I’ve loved every moment of it – but some times, some moments have been harder than others.”

Stokes said former England captain Joe Root (left) is someone he has spoken to a lot in recent times Credit: Gareth Copley/Getty Images

On Lord’s and how it made him feel...

“One of those to be honest, the whole Lord’s Test for me was something that I guess, it brought back some kind of negative feelings about where I was in my career. I worked so hard after getting back home [from the Ashes] and to try make things right. I put so much time and effort into it, I maybe possibly burnt out. Then the week at Lord’s was a very interesting and strange feeling to go into that game. Sometimes for me if I have too much time it’s not best for me.

“I gave myself enough time, spoke to people about it, I tried, I gave every opportunity to potentially conclude that, I don’t know, see if it was a blip or something wasn’t quite right. [But] everyone says about the day [they resign the captaincy] what’s it like, they say it hits you in the face. And I thought a few weeks ago it did. I was putting pads on yesterday getting ready to go out there and that was the final nail in the coffin.”

On the Lord’s Test and playing for Durham after the nightclub incident...

“The build up things were like that during that week for me. Then say to my mate Joe in the dressing room, then other scenario that added more to everything – nothing is ever easy or simple with me. One of the good things about me and my career is that we can have a laugh about it. It was as unfortunate a situation to be involved in the past two-and-a-half weeks. I love cricket, and being back at Durham I found a new lease of life with my connection towards cricket and I couldn’t get that feeling back here this week as much as I was trying.

“I have been through some rocky times, personally with having to push myself though to or do something because it’s the right thing to do. It might sound selfish, but this is the best thing for me right now and I hope it is the best thing for the team as well. [It is the best thing for me] when it comes down to what will allow me to still love this game that I’ve played since I was a kid. I am very excited about the next part, what I get to do going back to play for my boyhood club Durham really. I am comparing this week to last right now and buzzing because of it. There have been moments this week that have been really tough that just adds to everything and makes it in the back of your mind that you’re making the right decision.”

Playing for boyhood club Durham gave all-rounder ‘new lease of life’ Credit: George Wood/Getty Images

On having no fight left in him...

“There have been good times, [some] pretty bad times. Over the past five-six weeks it was something else I had to try and overcome and I’ve felt like I’ve been pretty good at doing that in my career, overcoming on-field disappointment, off-field disappointment. And then the emotional side of it since Australia, and I told my wife I don’t think I have any more fight in me. It hit me in the face. You go through that whole process and speak to people who are close to you and start to let more and more out, and the more I spoke to my wife about it...it’s brutal what we do – physically and mentally and stuff away from it, all the the hard work [to be able to play for England]. Even that is getting tiring now, I am 35 and I feel I have to do so much physical work to keep myself doing what I do out there, [I’ve been thinking] ‘do I have that in me do I have that fight in me to keep doing that’ because I know what it takes to go out there and play for your country. So many things have led me to know that this is the right decision – there’s the emotional side, the physical side and the mental side.”

On the announcement...

“I spoke to the team this morning. I spoke to Rooty and Brooky [Harry Brook] last night. I had a big job still to do out there today. The team we have up there, the comms and even Baz [Brendon McCullum], I asked the comms team, working Michael Lumb and with Neil Fairbrother who looks after me, you guys come up with a plan and whatever you think it best I’m fine with so I can concentrate on going out in the middle with the team. And we had a little plan that if it gets to seven or eight down it would be nice to do the message. It was always going to be a tactical decision for me to open the batting on that pitch because of the wicket and what we felt we needed to do against the new ball. So everything considered I was like ‘right, you do what you feel is best’, and everyone just had a laugh when we came off because as soon as it got announced everyone was like ‘what is going on?’ Then of course I had to take a wicket. Then when I walked off Baz was like ‘...we should have announced it an hour earlier!’. He just said ‘it’s typical of you that!’ Even the other boys were like ‘wow!’ It was absolutely electric. Yep, so give credit to the comms team for making that play out the way it did.” DT.