A New Year, a new book list! Keep track of this thread to see all the books I’m reading in 2026 👇

A suggestion on the relationship between Jesus’ teachings in the Synoptics and John: 1) In the Synoptics, Jesus’ sermons are compressed to their essentials (I.e bullet points) for memorisation purposes. 2) In John, we see Jesus’ sermons in full on specific subjects.

“Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.” -St. Augustine

CS Lewis is one of the few Christian thinkers to really get to grips with the universe after the scientific discoveries of the 19th and early 20th Centuries and reimagine it through an orthodox lens.

That 1% really have their quality of life sorted. https://t.co/9Ng6YG6pHs

One of the greatest strategic blunders of the Thatcher era, based on ideology over realism, and short-term over long-term thinking.

Gahhh*: for the 100th time- I don’t need a Bishop to ‘improve and drive diocesan strategy’. I need them to teach, guide, set an example, strengthen, if needed, rebuke and above all love me! *gahhh directed at doc not @MadsDavies who does a good job bringing this stuff to light.

If I was a Republican in the States I would be furious. Yet so many of the MAGA-types and even Senators are cultishly considering this as an ‘art of the deal’. What an embarrassment the party of Lincoln and Reagan has become.

Yesterday was one of the greatest diplomatic disasters for the US in decades: Trump’s speech was an out-of-his-league embarrassment; the US was isolated and alone; his climb down over Greenland showed how weak he is; it has also exposed the US’s greatest weakness: its debt.

We now have a breathing space to do this, but we must take this opportunity. Our national geopolitical defences cannot be at the whims of voters in Pennsylvania who are concerned about the price of eggs. America has changed; we also must.

Now that Trump has clearly TACOd, it is vital for Europe to begin the long process of decoupling from the US. This means increasing the military spending to GDP ratio, investing in its own military equipment - especially computer technology - & becoming less reliant on US bonds.

Listening to Greenlanders and Danes on the media tonight, some of them close to tears with relief that Greenland will not be forcibly annexed, one begins to grasp just how deplorable Trump's aggressive behaviour towards them has been. These people are longstanding and dependable

MAGA kept calling the Danes and their allies weak, kept telling them to not resist Trump annexing Greenland, only for Trump to fold, again, like he always does. This episode is mostly important for what it revealed about the movement. You had people sanewashing sadistic fantasies

The problem isn't Trump. The problem is the US. When the outside world observes Trump's insane behaviour and his threats against allies, and we at the same time observe that there is no real action from the US public, Congress, the US Supreme Court, or the US media about this

You mean Iceland

I don’t buy the whole ‘invading Greenland/Canada etc is unlikely’ argument. Just 10 years ago it was a ‘ridiculous’ idea. It’s now been upgraded to ‘unlikely’. Where will we be in another 10 years?

I dislike radical progressive balderdash as much as anybody, but right now, I'm more concerned about a petulant president threatening to destroy the global order, at least partially because he didn't win a prize.

Who could have expected Mark Carney, a liberal establishment figure if there ever was one, to be the flag-bearer for the end of the US-led order? And from a podium at Davos, of all places? The more you think about it, though, the more it makes sense. Carney is, at heart, a

Not a comprehensive list, but demonstrates how Britain is more exposed now than ever before.

8) Not following other EU nations in having higher control of immigration (see 6) 9) Iraq (destabilised Middle East leading to the collapse of dictatorships in Libya and Syria therefore helping create the refugee crisis) 10) Brexit (left us exposed to US power without EU backing)

5) Overselling ‘family planning’ (led to mass immigration, destabilising national unity) 6) Not having a referendum on Maastricht 7) Overinvestment in public services at a faster pace than economic growth in the 2000s (difficult to reverse after economic crash) 👇