Deputy Editor @CatholicHerald | Writer, school governor, charity trustee, @orderofmaltaGB volunteer | Southwark (Ex: New York, Buenos Aires, Fife, Western Cape)
“What is civilisation? I don’t know. I can’t define it in abstract terms, yet. But I think I can recognise it when I see it. And I’m looking at it now.”
— Kenneth Clark
Tim Farron, former leader of the Liberal Democrats, said the late Queen “was a constant to us all… but the constant in her life was her faith in Jesus Christ.”
Her religion was neither perfunctory nor ceremonial but “a living, active faith in a living Saviour”.
It is barbaric that we used to print books in a size and format actually convenient and usable for readers and that this stopped without any explanation whatsoever.
Man in a biohazard suit riding a unicycle playing the Rhodesian national anthem on flaming bagpipes.
“… Give us strength to face all danger, and where challenge is to dare…”
Communists are good at hiding that the USSR spent the first third of the war effectively allied to the Nazis.
The 1941 May Day parade in Red Square included a delegation from Nazi Germany.