Thursday, July 09, 2026

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Is This Really News?

 family, divorce, parenting, children, relationships, cohabitation

New study links marriage to lower rates of family breakdown. CT.
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Matthew 7:2.

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Colossians 2.

Spiritual Fullness in Christ

6) So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, 7) rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.

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The Rot Deepens.

A lion in decline.

Scandal and incompetence have become hallmarks of Britain's public sector

This is an expanded version of my column in today’s Times (£).

Britain, by common consent, is broken. What’s broken it, however, is a fundamental collapse of leadership at all levels.

Leadership sets goals, inspires others, takes tough decisions and holds itself accountable for its failures. It sets an example for others in society to follow in behaving with integrity, responsibility and trustfulness.

None of that is currently the case.

This has become a problem with mainstream politics and culture across the west. Coerced cultural conformity has become the norm among its elites. Statesmen — men and women of stature, who rise above pursuing their own advantage to serve the best interests of their nation, and who stick to their principles despite all setbacks and brickbats — are thin on the ground. Politicians tend to follow the herd, promise bread and circuses with jam tomorrow, and then blame the public for turning against them.

In Britain, this process of cultural demoralisation and decline is the most advanced. Despite this, by virtue of its historic cultural power — and the global reach of the English language — wherever Britain goes today, the rest of the west will eventually follow. So what’s happening there should provoke concern...

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Labour’s speech ban, built on evidence that doesn’t exist.

Tobias Bailey.

Dear All.

You’re being dragged from your home, prosecuted, and jailed for five years. 

Your crime? Lovingly telling your confused teenager that they don’t need hormones or surgery to be whole. 

I’m not paraphrasing Orwell; the UK Government unveiled draft legislation on June 25th, and it's being rushed through parliament on evidence that's collapsing before our eyes. 

Ministers claim 75,000 to 93,000 people every year are victims of "conversion therapy" in England and Wales. It sounds terrifying. It's meant to. But look closer, and the whole case falls apart.

The Government spent £360,000 of your money on a national helpline, expecting up to 15,000 calls a year. 

Out of 13,500 client records examined over three years, just 29 cases came through that helpline. Twenty-nine.  Even Baroness Cash, a former commissioner at the Equality and Human Rights Commission, has branded the figures "remarkably weak." 

Starmer knows that genuine abuse is already illegal and no new legislation is needed to prosecute such hideous crimes.

What this Bill actually does is aim the criminal justice system at parents, pastors, teachers, and therapists. It targets anyone who dares to gently question a child's demand to change gender.

Les, I know you can see this is persecution of free speech in the name of compassion. 

If this Bill passes, the state will stand between you and your own child. Ordinary conversations at the kitchen table could become criminal evidence. Prayer could become prosecution.

I refuse to let that happen, but we cannot stop it without your support. 

Sign the petition today. Demand Parliament reject this Bill and insist on honest evidence before making stark claims.  

Time is short. 

They are counting on your silence. 

Let’s work together to prove Labour wrong. 

With hope and determination, 

Tobias Bailey 

P.S. Parliament could vote before we have a chance to react. Sign now!

Here's the email I sent you earlier on this:

Dear Les,

A father sits across from his frightened teenager. A pastor listens to a young man wrestling with his faith and his sexuality. A counsellor helps a confused child slow down before an irreversible ‘gender-affirming’ surgery. Ordinary conversations, the kind that happen in homes, churches, and clinics every single day.  

Under the UK Government's new draft Bill, conversations like these could carry criminal risk. 

Les, you could be punished for a consensual conversation.

On 25 June 2026, the Government published its long-promised Bill to ban so-called "conversion practices" across England and Wales. 

We all agree that genuine abuse, coercion, and violence are wrong, and the good news is they are already illegal under existing law. So why a sweeping new offence? 

It is because this Bill is not designed to stop abuse, but rather to control speech.

The danger lies in its vagueness. "Conversion practice" is notoriously hard to define, and several King's Counsel have warned that a ban could breach fundamental rights protected by the European Convention on Human Rights. 

When the law is unclear, fear does the censoring: pastors stay silent, counsellors retreat to "affirmation only," and parents second-guess whether guiding their own child could land them in trouble. 

Slowly, the freedom to hold a conversation will erode. The British State will force citizens to hold their tongue. Under Andy Burnham, this will get even worse!

Scotland faced this. The 2024 plans collapsed under legal and public pressure. The previous UK Government stalled on the very same grounds. The objections were real then. They are still real now. 

Sign the petition now to defend free speech, faith, and family.

A Bill is never weaker, never more open to challenge, than at the draft stage. 

Right now, during pre-legislative scrutiny, definitions can still be tightened, exemptions added, and dangerous overreach stripped out. Once the Bill moves into its full parliamentary stages, the core text hardens, and amendments become far harder to win.  

In other words, the door is open today. It will not stay open for long.

The authoritarian Labour Government knows this. A well-funded, well-organised anti-freedom coalition is pushing hard for passage, backed by a Government manifesto pledge and the 2026 King's Speech. Silence now reads as consent.

One major development is that even pro-LGBT supporters have expressed scepticism about the Bill. Specifically, the harm this Bill may cause to people seeking help. 

But pressure works. Early, organised opposition stalled this twice before. We can do it again if we move before the deadline closes. 

Add your name today, before the consultation window shuts. 

Imagine the country we wake up in if this Bill passes unamended. We had Stasi Starmergeddon, and it is set to get worse very quickly. 

A parent urging caution before their child takes irreversible medical steps is labelled a criminal. A priest teaching his congregation what his faith has held for two thousand years, facing prosecution. A man who wants help reconciling his faith and his feelings, left with nowhere to turn, because everyone willing to talk to him is now too afraid.

Real protection from abuse already exists in law.

You may have gone through a terrible experience in your life, where you felt like there was nowhere to turn. You may have sat down desperately with a friend and let out your pain, your feelings, your worries. 

If a person struggling with their sexuality or suffers from dysphoria were to ask for help, by law, they may be forced to be rejected. The freedom to speak, to pray, to counsel, and to parent without fear of a knock at the door are fundamental to our society.

Les, I can only imagine the repercussions. 

There is a theme to this UK Government: stop free speech, reject the vulnerable and report your friends to the police. 

We are calling on the Office for Equality and Opportunity and Olivia Bailey MP to withdraw this Bill, or at least amend it to fully protect parents, clergy, counsellors, and free speech. 

Sign now. Share with your church, your family, your friends. Let's stop this Bill together. 

Thank you for your support.

With determination,

Tobias Bailey and the entire CitizenGO team

P.S. It won’t be long until parents are cuffed for having a conversation with their child. Sign the petition now to protect freedom of speech!

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Wednesday, July 08, 2026

Oh Dear.

 Prince Harry loses £50m phone hacking case against Daily Mail.

Duke of Sussex attacks judge over ruling that lacks ‘justice and accountability’ after all claims against publisher dismissed

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Colossians - The Supremacy of God The Son!

 The Supremacy of the Son of God.

15) The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16) For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. 17) He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18) And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. 19) For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, 20) and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.

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Good News.


Chinese underground church pastor Ezra Jin freed, arrives in US weeks after Trump raised case with Xi

Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri, leader of one of China's largest underground churches, has been released from detention and reunited with his family in the United States, less than two months after U.S. President Donald Trump personally raised his case with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, his family and rights advocates said Saturday, according to The Associated Press.

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Beautiful.


 

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How It Is.

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Hoorah!

Jennifer Melle

Christian nurse at centre of trans pronouns row has 'no case' to answer, regulator concludes

The Nursing and Midwifery Council has decided that no action needs to be taken against a Christian nurse who refused to use the preferred pronouns of a transgender patient. CT.
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The Grooming Gangs.

 Grooming gang victims have paid a heavy price for Britain's institutional cowardice.

We must acknowledge, without fear or favour, ethnic and religious patterns behind criminal acts of abuse, and take robust action to stop them.  

Rotherham
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Melanie Phillips.

 *** My new book, Fighting the Hate: A Handbook for Jews Under Siege, can be bought on amazon.com, amazon.co.uk and other Amazon sites.

My previous book The Builder’s Stone: How Jews and Christians Built the West – and Why Only They Can Save It, can be bought on amazon.com, amazon.co.uk and other Amazon sites.

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Tuesday, July 07, 2026

Come On Coppers - Arrest Some CRIMINALS For A Change!

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Oliver JJ Lane

6 Jul 2026

British police leaders should steer clear of “culture wars or woke” to focus on preventing crime and uphold British policing’s own values — somewhat implying they don’t presently do so — a major government-backed review has found.

Policing in England and Wales is facing something of a crisis of leadership, with the quality of policing varying across the nations, senior police leadership doing their jobs without training or professional development, and apparently distracted by “woke”. The Police Leadership Commission, led by Blair-era veteran Labour grandee David Blunkett and chair of the College of Policing Lord Nick Herbert stated that just 13 per cent of police constables said they believed they worked in a “well led and managed organisation” and that while “some forces are good”, others have “lost focus on cutting crime”. Breitbart.

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Missing.

Christian campus group leaders in Nigeria remain missing 

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Let's Hear It For YWAM!

 

US & Canada

YWAM deploys sports ministries as 2026 FIFA World Cup enters knockout rounds

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