Current Affairs

The BBC News website headlined an article with this picture of some of the European political leaders today.

What's missing?

I feel prompted to post part of Psalm 2 this morning

¹ Why do the nations rage
and the peoples plot in vain?
² The kings of the earth set themselves,
and the rulers take counsel together,
against the Lord and against his Anointed, saying,
³ “Let us burst their bonds apart
and cast away their cords from us.”

Some of you are thinking "that's obvious!".

Just seen on the BBC News site:

Sorry, Jeremy - no matter how good a job any doctors do, it will remain at 100%.

I greatly enjoyed reading about Euan Murray's decision not to play for Scotland against Argentina this coming Sunday. You can read it in the Telegraph and in the Sydney Morning Herald.

Are they predicative, attributive, substantive, etc.? These questions matter, because an adjective placed in the wrong place can imply the wrong meaning.

Was this the correct headline?

What did those MPs think they were up to? Gamekeeper turned poacher?

A piece of news that would easily not go noticed, but I noticed it.

Seeing the company name makes me remember the Nairobi - Mombasa Road, with endless driveways off the road signed "KPC. Pumpstation number 26", or similar.

Anyway, a real tragedy when things like this happen. Let's pray for those affected.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14879401

To quote the Beatles: "La, La, La, La... life goes on"

I thought I'd check if anything momentous has happened in the world? Anything I ought to celebrate, perhaps? Today's headlines are:

Meanwhile, in other stories: Grave robbers never found, Roman guard sacked for falling asleep on duty, Jesus seen alive, Death defeated, Harmony between God and people, There's hope for us all.

To quote John Stainer, himself (correctly) quoting Lamentations 3: "Is it nothing to you, all you that pass by?"

Happy Easter Everyone!

In the next week or two, The Well, the magazine that the church produces and distributes free of charge to all 5000 residents of our two parishes, will land on people's doormats.

As usual, page 4 has a letter from me:

Dear friends,

We’ve just come through the most unpredictable General Election for many years; people are talking not only of there being a new government but of a whole new way of doing politics. Time will tell what difference these changes will make, and whether they are great or small.

I know, I'm two weeks late to be commenting on this... but I've been on holiday.

The recent advertising campaign, bankrolled by the British Humanist Association, and backed by Richard Dawkins, has received a lot of publicity.