29) Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen. 30) And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. 31) Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. 32) Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.
Sunday, May 31, 2026
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Camilla Uses Unassailable Evidence Against Labour.
CAMILLA TOMINEY.
The Left still refuses to admit the truth about
mass migration.
Immigration is not the sole cause of our youth
unemployment crisis, but figures suggest it has
had a huge impact
Former Labour minister Alan Milburn has led a government review into worklessness
Camilla TomineyAssociate Editor
Camilla Tominey is an Associate Editor of The
Telegraph and co-presenter of the Daily T podcast
with Tim Stanley. She also hosts a Sunday
morning politics show on GB News. During her
25-year career, she has covered major news events
including 9/11, seven general elections and Brexit
alongside being one of the world's leading Royal
commentators. Her exclusive story breaking the
news of Prince Harry’s relationship with Meghan
Markle was nominated for Scoop of the Year at
the 2016 British Press Awards.
Camilla Tominey is an Associate Editor of The
Telegraph and co-presenter of the Daily T podcast
with Tim Stanley. She also hosts a Sunday
morning politics show on GB News. During her
25-year career, she has covered major news events
including 9/11, seven general elections and Brexit
alongside being one of the world's leading Royal
commentators. Her exclusive story breaking the
news of Prince Harry’s relationship with Meghan
Markle was nominated for Scoop of the Year at
the 2016 British Press Awards.
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Published 29 May 2026 4:23pm BST
While Alan Milburn was busy insisting that Britain’s youth worklessness crisis has nothing to do with immigration, a think tank quietly published figures that told a very different story.
According to the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), which was set up by former work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith, 27 young non-EU migrants have been hired for every one young British worker since 2020.
In other words, while the number of non-EU under-25s on UK payrolls has risen by 290,000 since the start of the decade, the number of young Britons employed increased by just 11,000 over the same period. Meanwhile, young people classified as Neet (not in education, employment or training) rose by almost 200,000.
How can anyone seriously argue there is no correlation here? Of course, immigration is not the sole cause of youth worklessness. But to pretend mass migration has had no impact whatsoever on the youth labour market shows a wilful kind of blindness.
Milburn’s headline findings are alarming enough. An interim report by the former Blairite minister has warned that the number of Neets is on course to soar by nearly a third over the next five years. That would mean more than 1.25 million young people effectively cut adrift. That would amount to one in six under-25s being classed as economically inactive, compared with roughly one in eight today.
Mr Milburn described the situation as a “whole-system failure”, blaming outdated education, welfare and healthcare structures that were no longer capable of preparing young people for adult life. There is undoubtedly truth in that diagnosis.
Britain’s institutions have failed many young people, particularly since the pandemic. Some schools aren’t fit for purpose, mental health services are overwhelmed and welfare systems that were once a safety net have become a trap.
Yet, when Mr Milburn was asked whether immigration might also have played a role, he flatly denied any link. “There’s no evidence,” he insisted. “It’s a blame game issue. We just sort of blame immigration as the problem – it’s not really, it isn’t.”
Imported labour
That response epitomises the modern political class’s refusal to engage honestly with the issue. Any attempt to discuss the relationship between mass migration and employment is instantly dismissed as bigoted.
I experienced exactly that during an episode of the Daily T podcast last week with former RMT union boss Mick Lynch. When I asked whether mass migration may have affected job availability or depressed wages for British workers, his response was to imply that the question itself was somehow racist.
Yet, as the CSJ has shown, the facts increasingly speak for themselves. Further, according to the CSJ’s analysis of HMRC payroll data, the number of non-EU workers aged under 25 has risen by an extraordinary 355 per cent since 2020. By comparison, the young British workforce has grown by just 0.3 per cent. These are the Government’s own numbers, spelling it out in black and white. Yet much of Westminster continues to avert its gaze.
The broader immigration picture has also played a part. Between January 2021 and June 2024, an estimated 3.9 million people arrived in Britain during the so-called “Boriswave”, when visas were handed out like confetti. Net migration reached a record 944,000 in the year ending March 2023.
Conservative ministers repeatedly insisted that these migrants were overwhelmingly “high-skilled workers” needed to plug labour shortages. But that argument no longer withstands scrutiny, since we now know the Home Office classified workers earning as little as £25,600 as “skilled”.The reality is that many sectors have become increasingly dependent on a constant flow of cheaper imported labour. Nowhere was this more evident than in the social care visa scheme, arguably one of the most reckless immigration policies introduced in modern times.It allowed employers to recruit large numbers of low-paid overseas workers with no meaningful age cap. Dependents could accompany them in large numbers, and little thought appeared to have been given to the long-term fiscal implications. Many of those workers did not remain confined to the care sector. Increasingly, migrants recruited under such schemes moved into retail, hospitality and service industries – precisely the sort of entry-level jobs that once provided British youngsters with their first foot on the career ladder.Walk down almost any British high street and the transformation is obvious. This is not about attacking migrants themselves, who are only trying to pursue a better life for themselves and their families. The responsibility lies with an immigration system that has been designed with little regard for the long-term consequences for domestic workers.
What is undeniable is that many of the jobs once traditionally filled by British youngsters – supermarket shelf stacking, café work and bar shifts – are no longer functioning as reliable gateways into employment. And those jobs matter far more than many politicians seem willing to admit.
More than one million Neets
16-24 year olds not in employment, education or training (Neets) by quarter
Oct-Dec 2001Apr-Jun 2008Oct-Dec 2014Apr-Jun 20210.600.700.800.901.001.101.201.30m
Source: ONS
They may be menial, but for generations, these low-level roles served as the foundation upon which young people built the self-confidence required for a future career. Working behind a till, serving pints in a pub or handling customers in a busy shop teaches lessons no classroom can replicate.These roles don’t just develop resilience. They teach punctuality, communication, negotiation and responsibility. Young people learn how to deal with pressure, solve practical problems and interact with people from all walks of life. These are not trivial skills. They are essential building blocks for adulthood. Employment teaches what the national curriculum can’t.When young people are excluded from the workforce at the beginning of their adult lives, the consequences often last decades. Economic inactivity becomes entrenchedThe biggest irony of all? We now have a post-Covid generation that is suffering from unprecedented mental health problems and record unemployment – when work would actually be the best medicine.The betrayal is two-fold: young people have not only been abandoned by the very institutions meant to prepare them for adulthood but also misled about the forces that helped shut them out in the first place.
DT.
Bangladesh.
Bangladeshi Christians continue to live in fear following elections.
Bangladeshi Christians taking part in Holy Communion 2025. For converts from a Muslim backgrounds, practice of their faith is particularly difficult. (Photo: Open Doors)Christians in Bangladesh are increasingly becoming the targets of sectarian attacks, particularly in areas dominated by the Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami.
In February the country had its first elections since the deposition of Sheikh Hasina in 2024. Hasina ruled Bangladesh for 15 years and while her administration was characterised by increasing authoritarianism and allegations of corruption and cronyism, she was also credited with taking a zero-tolerance approach to Islamism.
Since her fall, both Christians and Hindus have reported a rise in attacks, particularly against those who have converted from Islam.
The election was won by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), broadly representing the status quo. Their main opposition is a coalition of Islamist parties known as Jamaat-e-Islami. Although defeated in the election, Jamaat-e-Islami still managed to claim just under a third of the vote.
According Open Doors UK & Ireland, which supports persecuted Christians, violence against minorities, which had already been rising, has intensified following the election.
CT.
Murder By Any Other Name.
Church leaders raise alarm over record 55% increase in abortions in Scotland.
Hagen Hopkins/Getty ImagesFollowing the news that abortion has reached record levels in Scotland, the Catholic Church in the country has called for greater support for pregnant women and has expressed concern about the increase in abortions on the grounds of disability.
Latest figures from Public Health Scotland show that last year there were 18,783 abortions in the country, representing a rise of 55% from the 12,135 procedures conducted in 2016. The rise cannot be attributed to population growth, with figures also showing that the abortion rate per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44 rose from 11.9 in 2016 to 17.6 in 2025. In both per capita and gross terms, abortion is rising.
The figures also revealed that in 2025, there were 277 disability-selective abortions, a rise of 61% from 2018. There was also a 50% increase in abortions carried out in the 18th to 20th week of pregnancy. The legal limit for abortion is 24 weeks.
The Catholic Bishops' Conference of Scotland said the figures underlined the need for a compassionate response toward women facing difficult pregnancies.
Bishop John Keenan, president of the conference, said, “Behind every figure is a unique human life, created with inherent dignity, and a mother who may be facing fear, isolation or hardship. These numbers should prompt not resignation, but a renewed determination to build a society where every life is welcomed and protected.
“The Church does not underestimate the real challenges that can accompany a crisis or unexpected pregnancy. Women deserve practical, emotional and financial support, not a culture that too often presents abortion as the only solution.”
The bishop urged the Scottish government to facilitate a culture that would support and value both pregnant women and unborn children, rather than seeing abortion as an easy answer.
“Scotland should aspire to be a nation where compassion means standing with both mother and child, and where the dignity of every human life is defended from conception to natural death," he said.
A review into abortion law in Scotland, commissioned by former First Minister, Humza Yousaf, recommended that abortion be permitted for any reason prior to the 24-week limit.
The review, while stating that the 24-week limit should be retained, also states that abortions after the limit can occur if certain conditions are met. Those conditions, however, are vague and subjective, one such being consideration of “the patient’s current and reasonably foreseeable physical, psychological and social circumstances.”
Right to Life UK has warned that if the recommendations were implemented, Scotland would have “one of the most extreme abortion laws in the world.”
This article was originally published at Christian Today
Saturday, May 30, 2026
Colombia.
In 2023 the Colombian government withdrew special protections for religious leaders, leaving them increasingly exposed to the rising tide of violence in the country. These must be restored. CT.
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Church of England Messaging?
Does the Church of England need to re-think its messaging?
St Paul's Cathedral (Photo: Getty/iStock)25th March Dame Sarah Mullally was enthroned as the Archbishop of Canterbury in Canterbury Cathedral. In her sermon the Archbishop declared:
‘In the Incarnation, we see God becoming one of us, and this gives me such hope for the church. In the ordinary and the extraordinary life of the church, we see God’s hand at work, the church rolling up its sleeves and getting stuck in where God is already at work, in the local and the global.
‘The church through the ordinary lives of its people continues to do so many extraordinary acts of love. God’s people, offering a listening ear, a word of encouragement or a prayer of healing, offering food, shelter, sanctuary and welcome in a world that so often seeks to divide us, tables to sit at, conversations to be shared, and being a simple loving presence, like the salt of the Earth, a light on the hill, the treasure of the kingdom, a church for the whole nation and for the world, which looks for ways of joining in with people of all faiths and of none in acts of service which will transform, a church which extends around the world with our sisters churches in the Anglican Communion, as part of the one holy, catholic and apostolic church to embody Christ’s love.
‘God is at work in the good news of the Gospel and in the hearts and lives of ordinary people who, like Mary, have the audacity to believe that with God we can do extraordinary things.’
This passage struck me because it is typical of the kind of description of the activity of the Church that we find time and again in the statements made by bishops and others responsible for talking about the work of the Church of England.
For example, an article in the Daily Telegraph published the day before the Archbishop’s enthronement reported on a poll showing that a majority of people believe the Church of England should lose its right to run state schools. The article quoted people who supported this idea and finally a ‘spokesperson for the Church of England’ who said:
‘At the heart of the Church’s purpose in the nation is Christian service. That’s what shapes our presence in national life, and it’s what continues to guide our work in neighbourhoods up and down England. Every day, churches across the country provide support that people rely on.
‘Church of England parishes support or run more than 31,000 social action projects, with 60 per cent of churches involved in food banks, alongside warm spaces, community cafés, lunch clubs, toddler groups, school and hospital chaplaincy, and the quiet pastoral care offered to anyone who walks through the door
‘Through our schools we invest in the education and flourishing of over a million children in different communities across England – irrespective of faith background
‘Thousands of volunteers and ministers respond to this calling to serve our communities and the common good, wherever people are and whatever they believe.’
What the two statements I have just quoted, and numerous others like them which I could have cited, implicitly offer is an apologetic for the Church of England based on all the good things that its members undertake that those in society as a whole will generally recognise as worthwhile.
I have no reason to doubt that those in the Church of England engage in all the good works described in the two statements I have quoted. I also accept that it is proper that those in the Church of England should do the things described for the simple reason that they are ways of fulfilling the second of the two great commandments given by God ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself’ (Leviticus 19:18, Matthew 19:19, Romans 13:9). It is necessary that Christians in the Church of England do these things because, as James insists in his Epistle, faith has to be manifested in good works:
‘What does it profit, my brethren, if a man says he has faith but has not works? Can his faith save him? If a brother or sister is ill-clad and in lack of daily food, and one of you says to them, ‘Go in peace, be warmed and filled,’ without giving them the things needed for the body, what does it profit? So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead’ (James 2: 14-17).
I further accept that if you are going to communicate the Christian faith in today’s world it cannot be presented in a disembodied fashion but has to be shown to be something that has positive effects in practice. This is because as Graham Tomlin explains in his book The Provocative Church:
‘… contemporary culture in the West (and far beyond, if the prophets of globalization are right) has become very wary of disembodied truth. Where truth is suspected of being a mere front for power games, what lies beneath the surface of truth becomes a critical issue. In other words, the connection between the truth claim, and the kind of living that emerges from it, comes under very close scrutiny. Is this truth just another bid for power and mastery over others, just like Fascism and Marxism were, the discredited ideologies of the 20th century? Evangelism that proclaims the gospel of truth yet pays little attention to the kind of community it creates or the quality of life of the people it shapes, is unlikely to be listened to for very long by those who have imbibed the postmodern suspicion of disembodied truth with their mother's milk.’
Given all this, why am I still uneasy about the kind of apologetic for the Church of England found in the Archbishop’s sermon and the quotation from the Church of England spokesperson above?
The answer is because if you look at the Church of England’s communications all that it ever seems to highlight is the good works that Christians do to improve the temporal well-being of their neighbours (plus the services it can offer to mark life events such as marriage, the birth of a child, or the death of a loved one).
It is right to highlight these things, but they are not the primary reason for the Church’s existence. The reason for this is that human beings were created for an eternal relationship with God (in the famous words of Augustine in his Confessions ‘You have made us for yourself and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in you’) and no amount of improvement or amelioration of people’s lives in this world will enable them to achieve this end.
The distinctive truth to which the Christian faith, and only the Christian faith, bears witness is that this supernatural end is, in fact, not something that human beings can ever achieve for themselves, but that God himself through his Son Jesus Christ has made it possible for them to do so.
CS Lewis conveys this truth brilliantly in his famous children’s novel The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. In this book the great lion Aslan, who is the central supernatural figure in the novel, explains why he has come back to life after having let himself be killed by the evil White Witch on a stone table to save Edmund, one of the four children who are the heroes of the story.
Edmund’s sister, Susan, asks ‘What does it all mean?’ and Aslan’s reply is:
‘It means that though the witch knew the Deep Magic there was a magic deeper still which she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of time. But if she could have looked a little further back, into the stillness and the darkness before Time dawned, she would have read there a different incantation. She would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backward.’
Lewis describes here what happened at the first Easter. The Bible and our own experience tell us that we are all traitors against God. We have betrayed God by rebelling against his good laws written in our hearts and in the pages of the Bible. In consequence, the ‘deep magic,’ the law of consequences that God has established, means that we die in soul and body. Our relationship with God is broken and we are subject to physical death.
However, that is not the end of the story. God’s eternal plan, his ‘deeper magic’ has been to do something about this, and this plan was fulfilled when Jesus, God’s eternal and incarnate Son, who, unlike us, had done no wrong, voluntarily took our death upon himself when he died on the cross on Good Friday. This act of willing divine self-sacrifice broke the power of death, as shown by Jesus’ resurrection from the dead on the first Easter day, and this means that all who believe in Jesus have a sure hope that after they die they will rise with him to the new life of God’s eternal kingdom and thus fulfil the purpose for which they were created.
Where the Church comes into the picture is that it is God’s instrument to enable human beings to receive the benefits of what God has done for them through Jesus Christ.
To understand this point it is helpful to consider three key statements by Jesus contained in John’s Gospel.
The first is John 3:16: ‘For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.’
The starting point for receiving eternal life is hearing and accepting the good news that God has made eternal life available in the way that I have described above. However, as Paul notes in Romans 10, to believe the good news, we must have heard it, and we can only have heard it if someone has preached it:
‘How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching?’ (Romans 10:14).
Because this is so, the first task of the Church is to preach the gospel, or in other words to bear witness to what God has done for the world in Jesus Christ so that people will have the opportunity to believe it. That is why in Acts 1:8 Jesus tells his first disciples (and all who were to follow in their footsteps): ‘You shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea and Samaria and to the end of the earth.’
The second passage in John is John 3:3-5 in which Jesus tells Nicodemus:
‘Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born anew, he cannot see the kingdom of God.’ Nicodemus said to him, ‘How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?’ Jesus answered, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.’
The birth to new life to which Jesus refers here is achieved sacramentally through baptism, the rite in which we are enabled to participate through the Spirit in Jesus’ death and resurrection. As Paul writes in Romans 6:4 ‘We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.’
It is important to note that according to Paul people do not baptise themselves. People are baptised by others. It is because this is so that the command given by Jesus in the great commission in Matthew 28 :19 is that his disciples baptise ‘in the name of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Spirit’ and this is what the Church has done ever since the Day of Pentecost (Acts 2:41).
The third passage in John is the saying of Jesus in John 6:54-55 ‘He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.’ This eating and drinking takes place sacramentally as Christians obey Jesus’ command at the Last Supper (Matthew 26:26-29, Mark 14:22-35, Luke 22:19-24) and receive bread and wine at Holy Communion as a means of receiving in spiritual form the body and blood of Christ which were broken and shed for them on the Cross.
Preaching and the celebration of the two sacraments instituted by Jesus are thus the key tasks of the Church because they are the God-given means by which sinners are supernaturally saved by God for eternity. The primary gift the Church gives to the world is undertaking these tasks and those who speak for the Church need to be clear and forthright in saying so because no one else will. CT.
Indubitably!
Oh Dear, Oh Dear, Oh Dear!
Canadian evangelicals confused about core Christian doctrines, survey finds.
(Photo: Getty/iStock)A major new survey examining religious beliefs in Canada has found that many evangelicals hold views that deny historic Christian teaching, prompting renewed calls for stronger biblical discipleship and theological education within churches.
The findings come from the 2026 State of Theology Canada survey, carried out by Ligonier Ministries Canada alongside Lifeway Research.
The nationwide study explored how Canadians - both inside and outside the church - understand key Christian doctrines relating to God, salvation, sin, the Bible and morality.
Researchers surveyed 3,005 Canadian adults between October 16 and 30, 2025, and defined evangelicals as those who strongly agreed with four theological statements, including that the Bible is the foremost authority for belief, that Jesus Christ’s death is the only sacrifice for sin, and that salvation comes through faith in Christ alone.
Among the most striking findings was widespread confusion among evangelicals regarding foundational Christian doctrines.
According to the survey, 73% of Canadian evangelicals affirmed the claim that “Everyone is born innocent in the eyes of God,” while 60% said that “Everyone sins a little, but most people are good by nature.”
The survey also found apparent contradictions in beliefs surrounding the doctrine of the Trinity.
Although 93% of evangelicals reported belief in one God existing as Father, Son and Holy Spirit, two thirds also agreed with the statement that “The Holy Spirit is a force but is not a personal being.”
Researchers further expressed concern that 45% of evangelicals believed that “Jesus was a great teacher, but he was not God,” despite nearly half simultaneously affirming the authority of Scripture.
The study identified similar inconsistencies in attitudes toward the Bible itself.
While many evangelicals described the Bible as the highest authority for their beliefs, 28% also affirmed that Scripture “contains helpful accounts of ancient myths but is not literally true.”
Ligonier Ministries Canada said the findings point to a significant need for clearer doctrinal teaching within churches.
“These are not minor details,” said Ligonier Ministries Canada chairman, Chris Larson. “They are fundamental truths. If we get these wrong, we don’t have Christianity at all.”
Alongside its findings on evangelicals, the report also explored broader religious attitudes among Canadians as a whole.
It found that 54% of Canadians hold that the Bible contains helpful moral stories but is not factually accurate, while 48% affirmed belief in the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Researchers noted that responses often reflected a mixture of secular and Christian beliefs rather than outright rejection of religion.
The survey also highlighted regional and generational differences across the country.
Canadians in Ontario and the Prairie provinces were generally more likely than those in Quebec, British Columbia and Atlantic Canada to affirm traditional Christian teachings on God and marriage.
Younger Canadians also appeared, in some areas, more open to biblical teaching than older generations.
Adults aged 18 to 49 were more likely than older respondents to affirm the authority of the Bible and salvation through Jesus Christ alone, while Canadians aged 50 and above were more likely to reject statements describing abortion as sinful and the idea that every believer has a duty to commit to a local church.
Researchers said a significant number of respondents selected “not sure” when answering theological questions, particularly regarding the Resurrection, science and the Bible, and doctrines relating to salvation and the Holy Spirit.
The report suggested this uncertainty points both to theological confusion and to opportunities for Christian outreach and evangelism.
Ligonier said the survey was intended not simply to identify theological errors, but also to help churches better understand areas where discipleship and biblical teaching may be needed most.
“As faithful biblical teaching goes out from local churches and believers share their faith, Canadians can be reached with the truth of God’s Word and the hope of the gospel as God draws many people to Himself,” the report concluded. CT.
Pray for Christians from a Muslim background.
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