Tuesday, July 21, 2026
The Disciples Only Fulfill Their Potential After The Resurrection.
Receives the cloud that takes Him from their sight;
Yet, looking up, they see the blossoming wood,
And dawn where they had feared the falling night.
No longer cowering in a locked, dim room,
But loosed like tongues of Pentecostal flame,
They burst the borders of the ancient tomb,
To speak the power of a saving Name.
Through paths untrod and empires cold and vast,
They break the bread and open wide the doors,
Redeeming all the sorrows of the past.
The seed is sown, the joyful sound takes wing;
Across the globe, ten thousand voices sing.
Philippians 2 - Jesus.
9) Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name,
10) that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
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What's Happening In The UN?
Dear Friends,
I was mid-sentence when they killed my microphone. Right there, inside the United Nations, in front of the world, my voice went dead. And with it, yours.
My crime? I stood before the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on June 24, speaking for you and millions like you, and questioned whether Michelle Bachelet, the radical feminist frontrunner for UN Secretary-General, is fit to lead. The Chair called it a "personal attack" and erased it all with one click.
But they made a mistake. I recorded a video exposing exactly what they hid in that room, and they cannot censor the internet. If you share it, the truth breaks through their wall of silence.
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Don't let them have the last word. Pass this on to three people who refuse to be silenced.
Now let me show you the hypocrisy they hoped nobody would notice, Les.
Spain took the floor to promote a woman for Secretary-General. Allowed.
Minutes after I was silenced, North Macedonia did exactly the same. Allowed.
A radical NGO used its speaking time to smear people who organize around "family and authority", people like you and me. Allowed! they even ran over their time limit.
The United Nations claims to defend freedom of expression.
But when a pro-life and pro-family voice challenged Michelle Bachelet's candidacy for UN Secretary-General, the microphone was cut off.
During my address to the UN Human Rights Council, I followed every procedure and submitted my statement in advance. Yet my speech was interrupted simply because it criticized a candidate who openly supports abortion, gender ideology, and policies
And what was the argument they couldn't bear to let the world hear? Just this: the United Nations doesn't need symbols; it needs leadership. It doesn't need a candidacy based on identity; it needs someone capable of uniting nations.
That's it. That's the "personal attack."
Les, understand what really happened in Geneva. I was carrying your voice into that room, the voice of every mother, father, and grandparent who refuses to let unelected bureaucrats decide what our children are taught and whether our laws protect life.
And the timing tells you everything. In a matter of days, by late July, the UN Security Council begins its secret "straw polls" to choose the next Secretary-General.
Maybe you've never heard of "straw polls." Here's how it works: the 15 members of the Security Council receive secret ballots where they mark each candidate "encourage," "discourage," or "no opinion." No cameras. No records. No accountability. Round after round, candidates are quietly pushed out until only one name is left standing, and the General Assembly's "vote" in September simply rubber-stamps it.
Bureaucrats behind closed doors. No public debate. No vote you will ever cast.
Once they settle on a name, the September vote in the General Assembly is a mere formality.
The next Secretary-General will control billions in UN funding and preside over the very summits where abortion is pushed into our countries' laws.
Bachelet has already told us exactly what she would do: she claims abortion is "firmly rooted" in international human rights law.
That is who they are protecting from your scrutiny.
This isn't just about one speech.
It's about whether pro-life and pro-family voices are allowed to be heard at the highest levels of the United Nations.
More than 180,000 people have already joined us in opposing Michelle Bachelet's nomination and demanding that the members of the Security Council veto her.
They control the microphones in Geneva. They do not control your screen. Every single share rips a hole in their wall of silence, putting their hypocrisy right in front of the people they never wanted to reach. If this video stays on my page, they win. If you share it, the truth breaks through.
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If you want to see the exact moment they silenced us, click here to watch on YouTube instead.
But, in the middle of this outrage, I have powerful news of hope to share with you.
Your pressure is working.
Together, we have flooded the race with scrutiny they never expected.
28 members of the U.S. Congress formally demanded a veto against Bachelet, calling her a "pro-abortion zealot." Chile, her own country, withdrew her nomination, calling it "non-viable."
They wanted a quiet coronation. Thanks to you, they're getting a battle.
And we are taking that battle to their doorstep. Right now, my team and I are preparing high-impact actions at the UN headquarters in New York, and face-to-face meetings with national delegates, demanding they pressure the Security Council to veto Bachelet in the straw polls.
I will walk into those rooms carrying your signature. Walk in with me by making sure the whole world has seen what they did in Geneva.
They bet everything on our silence. Let's prove them wrong.
For our families and our freedom,
RocÃo D'Angelo and the entire CitizenGO team
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Starmer - APOLOGISE!
Every part of my life belies Starmer’s claim that he’s improved Britain.
No Keir, you didn’t leave the nation in a better shape than you found it – you left us even more moribund and hopeless than we were before.
I’m arranging a little whip-round for Keir Starmer’s leaving present since, in the departing PM’s own words, he’s leaving this country “in a better shape than I found it”. Yup, instead of the ragged, non-ergonomic outline of the British Isles, nasally stifled bureaucrat Starmer has marshalled us into a functional hexagon! Hollow joking aside, the delusion of success conjured in Starmer’s departing speech isn’t much less absurd. Precisely zero people I know nodded along, saying: “Thank God for Sir Keir! He turbo-charged the economy, built thousands of truly affordable homes, tackled the cost-of-living crisis, ended the injustice of student loans, cleaned up our waterways, made the trains run on time and transformed the NHS so radically you could actually see a GP in person!”
Starmer’s self-congratulatory valedictory speech was in painful, surreal contrast to the conversation I had this week with a Left-leaning former nurse in my home town of Cambridge, one of the most progressive-minded cities in the UK. We both have one child at university and another who’s just turned 18. The main theme of our chat was the tragic fact that we’re turfing them out into an AI-dominated world that has no meaningful job vacancies and where widespread messaging about the “climate crisis” means the young are riddled with anxiety disorders.
Her super-clever student daughter has a summer post in a pub in London where all the other bartenders have top degrees and MAs from Russell Group universities. The prospect of our children ever earning enough to repay their student debt and own a property is negligible. And if they can’t do that, how can they afford to start a family? No wonder most of them have no ambitions beyond making enough to travel. They look at their middle-class parents strangled by tax, inflation, soaring grocery and utility bills, and cancelling summer holidays (this is the first year in a decade I’m not booked to go away), and are convinced the domestic carousel isn’t worth the price of the ticket.
No wonder most of the young women I know say they never want to start a family. The Ockenden report and constant horror stories from maternity wards up and down the UK have put paid to that notion. Nor do other parts of the NHS stand up to scrutiny. I had to beg to get HRT, and when my octogenarian aunt was hospitalised in early summer, she reported the air-con malfunctioned and every corridor was lined with moaning patients on trolleys like a scene from Dante’s Inferno.
Addenbrooke’s hospital is the biggest employer in Cambridge after the university, but the number of people waiting more than 12 hours in Cambridgeshire A&Es has soared from seven in February 2020 to 1,479 in February 2026. A friend having a suspected heart attack waited 16 hours for an ambulance last year and then drove himself in. In London, a friend who had severe chest pains and was gasping for air was dismissed from two different A&E departments as a time waster. On the third occasion, as he struggled to climb stairs, he demanded a D-dimer test to check the possibility of blood clots. It transpired he’d suffered a “massive bilateral pulmonary embolism” for which the key symptoms are… breathlessness and chest pain.
But the worst part of our failing state is the abject failure to help small businesses thrive. I grew up in a pub and have been involved with three small publishing businesses (two that I co-owned) over the past 30 years. These kinds of ventures can’t survive if you make the real cost of employing staff too costly. Now pubs are going under at a rate of knots, while the online magazine I currently edit can’t afford to take on young people: changes to employment law, along with increased minimum wage, National Insurance contributions and all-round rising overheads make it an impossibility. Even if we did employ a youngster, they couldn’t afford London rents. We’ve been chasing and getting thrillingly close to, yet never quite securing, investment for four years now. Pretty much every other entrepreneur I know is in the same boat: great business plans abound, but no one rich and canny wants to part with cash in a country that feels permanently on the brink of recession. Confidence has ebbed away like water in the nation’s leaky pipes.
So Starmer can jaw on as much as he wants about Britain being a “better place” under his leadership and raising the “national living wage”, but a PM will always be judged by whether people want to invest in the country he leads. Look at fizzing, confident Poland, where GDP grew by 3.5 per cent in the first quarter of this year, compared to the UK’s paltry 0.6 per cent. There, a great education – prioritising both Stem and humanities (all my Polish friends have studied philosophy at school) – is par for the course. The actual “living experience” of most voters is that we’re squeezed to the pips, caring for ageing parents and kids who have no hope in the future and want to emigrate. Our roads are full of potholes, petty crime like bike and phone theft blights our lives, public transport is shockingly bad, healthcare is a lottery where only the wealthy are guaranteed treatment, retirement looms on an ever-more-distant horizon and when we do stop, bent over with rheumatism, old-age care is unaffordable.
Of course, the rot started long before Starmer became prime minister and was escalated by Covid, along with staggering political complacency across the main parties. But Sir Keir fudged some obvious popular wins. What about taking the big water companies by the scruff of the neck and tackling filth and E.coli in our seas and rivers? What about allowing small businesses like mine to offer short periods of unpaid work experience once again, in return for training young people? (I don’t mean official apprenticeships with all the attendant red tape.) I envisage class warriors protesting about exploitation, but the young working-class woman from Blackburn I trained on that basis 27 years ago is about to arrive at my house for a drink. She made herself irreplaceable, increased our productivity and we created a full-time job for her. Now she edits trade publications for a company in Wimbledon.
Sadly, Starmer’s period in office has seen this kind of enterprise and social mobility stifled. But, then, he had a remarkable lack of forward motion and oomph in his own person. The truth is, he left Great Britain even more moribund and hopeless than he found it – or feeling that way, which is just as bad an indictment. Hell, we even lost the most important footie match of my lifetime. Bye-bye Keir, we will not miss you.
DT.
Lammy Gone! What Could You Possibly Say? - I Wonder Why It's Necessary?
Monday, July 20, 2026
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Great Advice From Dan The Man To Our New PM.
From car tax to Chagos, nine ways to boost growth without spending cuts:
Daniel Hannan is President of the Institute of Economic Affairs, and sits in the House of Lords as an independent peer
What can Andy Burnham actually do? He inherits an economy which is, in many ways, still in lockdown. Public sector productivity is below where it was when the pandemic hit. One in four working-age Britons claims to be disabled. We pay more to non-working adults in benefits than we raise from working adults in income tax.
Taxes are higher than since the late 1940s, when we were winding down from full mobilisation; yet, incredibly, we still borrow £23bn a month – half of which goes on paying interest on previous loans.
Indeed, we spend considerably more on servicing past debt than we do on defence. Interest payments are our biggest budget after healthcare and social security. All three are ballooning with nothing to show for it.
The new PM will know by now what is coming in the Autumn budget. I shouldn’t be surprised if he calls a snap election rather than having to face the country as a Labour PM who was forced into cuts. Yes, I know Burnham has ruled out an early poll, but so did Theresa May and Boris Johnson, right up to the moment when they called one.
Let’s assume, though, that Burnham is telling the truth when he says he won’t go to the polls yet. What, then, are his options?
What, to be more precise, can he realistically do to restore growth without alienating his MPs and his core electorate? There is no point in urging him to slash spending, in the way that Margaret Thatcher is imagined to have done. His whole shtick is that he hates Thatcherism. The Iron Lady may have taken Britain from being the slowest-growing economy in Europe in the 1970s to the fastest-growing in the 1980s, but Burnham will never let anyone accuse him of copying her.
Nor is there much purpose in pointing out that public spending has shot up since his first election to Parliament in 2001 ,from 35 per cent of GDP to 44 per cent. If Burnham sees that rise as “neoliberalism”, our definitions are so far apart that meaningful dialogue is difficult. Plainly, the new PM is not going to shrink the state. Nor is he going to privatise healthcare or scrap net zero or reduce the civil service payroll or do any of the things that would properly kick-start growth. What, then, does that leave?
I want Britain to succeed – which necessarily means wanting Burnham to succeed. So I asked my brilliant boffins at the Institute of Economic Affairs to suggest ways that the new PM could stimulate growth in ways that are compatible with what he calls his unashamed Labour values – in other words, without cutting public spending.
Here is what we have come up with – nine ideas to expand the private sector without shrinking the government, nine policies that can be implemented by the end of the year without costing the Treasury a penny.
- Release green-belt land within walking distance of railway stations. That change alone would free up space for two million homes, which would significantly bring down the cost of living. The savings people made would then drive growth in every other sector. Burnham made the case for green-belt release as mayor of Greater Manchester. Within weeks, he could amend the National Planning Policy Framework to designate some land as “grey belt”. Since much of that land, even now, is represented by Tory MPs, it would have the added bonus of dividing the Opposition.
- Raise nursery staffing ratios to European levels. One of the major constraints on growth is the cost of childcare, which prevents young parents from taking jobs. Although defenders of the regulation claim that it is about safety, the truth is that it is a racket whereby existing providers raise barriers against possible competitors.
- Remove identifiably useless regulations. The Nuclear Regulatory Task Force proposed 47 changes to streamline the rules and clear away needless stipulations. All 47 proposals have been accepted, paving the way for the generation of clean and reliable energy. Why not take the same approach across the board – from financial services to planning? Lift the rocks and let the grass grow.
- Lure back non-doms. Ministers have been privately shocked by the amount of revenue that has been lost as mobile wealth-creators have migrated to friendlier tax jurisdictions. This is a change Labour can make more easily than other parties, because no one accuses it of being in the pockets of foreign plutocrats. Undoing Rachel Reeves’s changes might slow the loss of wealth and wealth creators. But to draw them back in, and boost the Treasury’s receipts, we need to go back to where we were before Jeremy Hunt announced his expensive changes in 2024.
- Park the uncommenced provisions of the Employment Rights Act. Keir Starmer came to understand, too late in the day, that his Employment Bill was going to become an Unemployment Bill. So he paused the more job-destroying elements of it. Dropping those elements permanently will give companies the confidence to hire. Halting the continuing and unaffordable rises in the minimum wage will tackle the crisis that has left a million young people out of work and is killing the hospitality sector.
- Recognise trusted foreign regulators. If a new drug is approved by the European Medicines Agency, or Japan’s Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency, or the US Food and Drug Administration, that should be good enough for us. To sell the policy to the Labour base, explain that it allows us to align with the EU without giving up the freedom to innovate. That should be our approach across the board, not just with medicines. Allow British companies to follow either EU or UK standards: regulatory competition will itself stimulate competitiveness.
- Scrap tariffs on things we don’t produce. I mean, we should scrap tariffs across the board, since they always and everywhere harm the country that imposes them. But voters never believe this, and politicians are never brave enough to explain it to them. Even the most protectionist numbskull, though, will surely struggle to explain why we have tariffs on rice, olive oil, oranges and the like, driving up costs for British firms that import them as raw materials without even any imagined benefit.
- Replace Vehicle Excise Duty with a road charge. We have woven a cat’s-cradle of taxes around vehicles – a levy on owning them, duties on petrol, a new mileage charge for electric cars, various congestion tolls. Burnham says he wants more localism. Well, letting local authorities run their own road pricing schemes is a way for them to raise revenue while ensuring that our transport infrastructure is funded.
- Drop the Chagos Scheme. For a fraction of what Starmer proposed to pay Mauritius, Britain could provide infrastructure for Chagossians to return to their ancestral lands. Quite apart from the monetary saving, the reversal would be a practical realisation of Burnham’s talk of national resilience, his aspiration to govern as a plain-speaking northerner rather than as a human rights lawyer.
I could go on. A Labour government could introduce market mechanisms into the NHS while retaining the principle of free treatment. It could remove benefits from illegal immigrants. It could replace the most expensive elements of the Equality Act and the Human Rights Act. It could do all these things without being accused, as other parties would be, of victimising the vulnerable.
Let’s stick, though, to the reforms that offer the best ratio of effort to outcome. The things that can be secured through simple bills or secondary legislation, where the opposition will be limited, and where the gains are immediate. While these things will not restore the levels of prosperity that we used to take for granted when the state was spending one pound in three rather than one in two, they will at least allow for some growth and ease the immediate pressure.
Will Burnham do any of them? We will know soon enough. And if you want detailed plans on how to do these things with the smallest short-term costs and the largest long-term gains, Prime Minister, the door of the IEA is always open.
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1 Thessalonians 1. From Paul The Apostle.
4) For we know, brothers and sisters loved by God, that he has chosen you, 5) because our gospel came to you not simply with words but also with power, with the Holy Spirit and deep conviction.
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Sunday, July 19, 2026
The Apostles' Creed.
The Apostles' Creed.
I believe in God, the Father almighty,
creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord,
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried;
he descended to the dead.
On the third day he rose again;
he ascended into heaven,
he is seated at the right hand of the Father,
and he will come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy catholic Church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life everlasting.
Amen.
Philippians 2.
5) In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:
6) Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
7) rather, he made himself nothing
by taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
8) And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
by becoming obedient to death—
even death on a cross!
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