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Lewisham born and bred| Writer| Bylines in @Telegraph @NewStatesman @unherd @spikedonline |Member of St Peter's Church, Brockley
London, England
Joined May 2011
First proper piece of my "Black Belonging" series. My legacy to the next generation. See following tweet for full piece.
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Because something is written in Scripture doesn’t mean it’s affirmed. The Bible records human actions to reveal God’s redemptive response, not to justify them. Many (including Christians) don't even grasp this fundamental.
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Ending human life is a "treatment"? I can certainly understand how via such a framing one would end up treating assisted suicide like a clinical trial.
🚨Pro-assisted suicide doctor Henry Marsh: Assisted suicide should be legalised, and then we can collect the data to see if "disabled people are being disproportionately hurt". By that point, it's a little too late...
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We can’t build a cohesive society on moral and metaphysical illiteracy. This country is simply not equipped. I might need to write this into an essay at some point.
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Without genuine religious literacy — the ability to understand how belief informs culture, ethics, and identity — “diversity” becomes a slogan rather than a framework for shared life.
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When Western societies speak of “religion,” they imagine a uniform ideology rather than a living moral ecosystem shaped by time, place, and people. That’s why their multicultural vision often collapses into confusion and contradiction.
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The worldview of an Almajiri Hausa from Sokoto — shaped by a rigorous scholastic tradition and communal discipline — is worlds apart from that of a Yoruba Muslim in pluralistic Lagos, whose faith coexists daily with Christianity and secular modernity.
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Take Islam as an example. Its expression isn’t monolithic. It’s deeply shaped by culture, history, and education. Even within Nigeria, Islam looks very different depending on where and how one lives. 🧵
Religious literacy in Britain is abysmal yet many still believe multiculturalism can thrive under such conditions. How can a society that no longer understands faith expect to hold together people of radically different faiths? It’s a thoroughly unserious project.
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Religious literacy in Britain is abysmal yet many still believe multiculturalism can thrive under such conditions. How can a society that no longer understands faith expect to hold together people of radically different faiths? It’s a thoroughly unserious project.
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Notice throughout Scripture, even when God "permits" polygamy (as with e.g. Abraham or David), the narrative consequences always expose its brokenness — jealousy, rivalry, fractured families.
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Polygamy is best understood as a distortion of God’s original design rather than a neutral alternative. In Genesis 2, God creates one man and one woman and declares, “the two shall become one flesh” — not the three, four, or ten. Basic theology.
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In a healthy and sane society, that clip would cause national outrage. Beneath the language of “sex positivity” lies something darker: the commodification of rape. Yet not one person at the BBC seemed to notice when it was broadcast? Only God can save this country.
The tragedy of modern Western society is that the very word immorality has become unintelligible to most people.
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If an act does not cause physical or emotional harm as framed in the clip, then it's generally deemed to be fine aka "you do you".
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The tragedy of modern Western society is that the very word immorality has become unintelligible to most people.
🚨The BBC is rotten to its core. Here is a clip from a BBC documentary about Bill Cosby, in which it’s suggested that we should: “Create a sex positive world where someone is able to pay conscious women to come and be drugged for a fetish for having sex with unconscious people”
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Respectfully, this culture war framing that so many lean on is pathetic. The country is falling apart, and all you care about are rage-bait likes instead of making real headway in our public discourse. 🥴
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Mayor-elect Mamdani stakes out a position against the Protestant Reformation
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani citing James 2:14 this morning: “Faith, without works, is dead.”
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No coincidence it was around that time when the quality of content dropped significantly on this app.
People are making professional-level incomes arguing about race and politics on twitter.
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I'm sorry but 25% of students getting this wrong isn’t about laziness — it’s evidence of a systemic failure in how arithmetic and logic are taught at the elementary level.
The UCSD math department administered a test to 138 students in a remedial math class, and 25% of them got this question wrong:
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Many politicians talk about what they stand for but fail to discuss the practicalities at greater length. It's a fundamentally unserious politics. I will dismiss anyone who presents themselves in this manner.
Let me make it clear: refugees are welcome here. Using an army camp isn't the way to do it, and the dysfunctional Home Office must do better than their total lack of communication with local communities.
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In other words, we’ve quietly accepted that families earning less are living subpar lives — and that’s seen as normal. 😬
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