Dim Stanley, blogger, journalist, historian and Catholic

The rich are getting even richer. I don’t know what to do about this. Jesus didn’t know either, but he did know he would temporarily die, so we’d better be nice to him.

Then a bit later he did know: give everything to the poor, so that the rich and the poor swap places, then the new rich can give everything to the new poor and swap again.

If only some politicians somewhere had thought to share all our resources equally.

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Incomprehensibly Revd Nicholas Baines, Bishop of Leeds, West Yorkshire, the Dales and any other bits that can’t afford their own bishop any more

Doris Day is dead. She sang the song “Que sera, sera.” That is really all there is to be said about Doris Day. This song is wrong. I cannot emphasise this enough. Do not base your philosophy of life on the lyrics of a song sung by the late Doris Day. The correct philosophy of life is Christianity.

Mornington Crescent.

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