Month: Nov 2025

Closing the Blog

I seem to be having a lot of problems with the POTD blog recently. Last week, the place where I store audio clips suddenly stopped allowing them to be played. I’ve contacted them and they claim to have fixed it, but I still can’t get it to work.

I’m also having problems with BBC iplayer. Often I can’t get the Today Programme to load at all. When I do get it to work, I have problems getting it to move to TFTD. The TFTD website would be a convenient alternative, except that it’s not always up to date. Maybe they’re having to save money for their damage to the reputation of the Good and Virtuous Trump.

The blog has been in gentle decline for some time now. Yesterday’s entry attracted a whole four visits, and I suspect a couple of those were me.

All of which I’m finding a bit stressful. And I really don’t need stress at the moment. I’ve just found out that the occasional chest pains I’ve been having isn’t indigestion after all. It turns out I really do have a serious heart problem which will have to be addressed sometime in the next few months.

So for all these reasons, with humble apologies to my regular contributors, especially those who have remained loyal throughout the last 17 1/2 years, I think it’s time to finally hang up my keyboard.

I’ve learned a tremendous amount from all of you, and I wish you well. Goodbye, and may you’re Invisible Magic Friend go with you.

Rev Lucy Winkett, Rector of St James Piccadilly, handy for Fortnum and Mason

And in the Big News today from a Faith Perspective, war. Wouldn’t it be great if they all just stopped.

Jesus may have advised us to turn the other cheek, but modern Christianity accepts that it is in fact OK to bomb the hell out of your enemy. But for many war is a choice. So Today I ask, will we, and by “we” I do of course mean “you”, choose to end all those dreadful international conflicts you have started.

https://mega.nz/file/sqs2RbjB#aydaAkpAatrE8QLW_MLmlXrPrJUOyXAy91JyvmvSZYA

Preposterously Reverend Lord Professor Bishop Baron Lord Richard Harries, Baron Pentregarth, Gresham Professor of Divinity, Baron, Bishop, Professor, Lord…

And in the Big News today from a Faith Perspective, fashion. It’s great! Well, actually it’s rubbish, but some people seem to like it.

The thing about fashion is, it comes and goes. It keeps changing. If you want something better than fashion you need religion. Specifically my religion, the correct one, where the head of the Mountbatten-Windsor family is in charge. And thank the Invisible Magic Friend it’s Charles and not Andrew.

You see religion gives us morals and culture, and it never changes at all.

If dressing like an aristocrat from the late western Roman Empire is good enough for clerics, then it’s good enough for everyone else. Who needs fashion.

https://mega.nz/file/M2lGkCTT#ZS1scNdo8Y9TnrlfVBQz9B29ObY0_lgEFCub50i9soA
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00szxv6/clips