What a superb bunch you all are. So many shared concerns, interests and tastes among us on this channel. Good night!

A lady of about sixty from Cork has recorded a testimony that’s being shared of how a waitress took pity on her and her dog sitting on the terrace in a storm and invited her in despite the eatery’s no-dogs policy, but rescinded the invitation at the door for the lady’s lack of a jab pass.

The dog was thought more worthy of compassion than her.

It’s too upsetting to share at bedtime. Instead, here's Seán Ó Sé’s tribute to what Cork was like when this lady was young. A new generation could restore it, if they couple courage to wisdom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-i8ljrcu8w

“Johnson’s replacement will have no emotions about Britain whatsoever”—if you think this far-fetched, look at the last couple of Irish Taoiseachs and the current Prime Ministers of the white Commonwealth.

https://t.iss.one/millennialwoes/4300

A friend wrote yesterday à propos of Johnson:

“I do notice how the old toad is looking haggard and bent over. My working theory is that, now that the attempted colour revolution in Kazakhstan has failed, which was run by old Vauxhall Cross types playing the Great Game (as they have done since Younghusband), the fornicator-in-chief is now surplus to requirements, knowing slightly too much.

What's more, being an old Balliol product (father in MI6, controlled, not a controller), I'm sure he knows his time is up, hence the sudden procreation project and outings in outrageously expensive private members' clubs.

He's probably been given an offer: either you drink yourself to an early grave, or we Robin Cook you.”

P.S.: I know the plural is taoisigh but few people abroad know that word!

The vote on Saturday Bible studies has concluded that you would like thematic studies, with regular discussion of grammar and idiom in the original languages, with a quarter of an hour at the end for Q&A. I will open an audio-only chat for the Bible study and I’ll run the Q&A by concurrent text posting.

Some have asked for coverage of “Day of rest: Saturday or Sunday?”, “The Trinity: is it Biblical?”, or “Deuterocanonical books: why aren’t they in the Bible and what do we learn from them about world power structures?”. These are issues better addressed by wide reading and ongoing one-to-one correspondence, and are points on which a believer can use a good deal of adaptability to get along with the fellowship and culture where he finds himself. If I broached them, the whole hour would be absorbed in addressing controversy.

I’d rather do studies on topics that will lend themselves optimally to this format. Your germane suggestions below, please.

One of the few GCHQ colleagues I've kept in touch with wrote me this in a New Year e-mail:


The C of E and New Frontiers, among other denominations, had their terminal nervous breakdown 2016-18.

NHS collapse 2017.

The RC Church I dropped out of 2014.

Some unwary people have been trapped by sentimentality and lack of mental sharpness, having had belief stolen from us by nearly all the churches.

A discussion has started in the chat about modern pastors manipulating families through wives. The strongest form of this, in my opinion, is found in Northern Ireland. It’s a pan-Anglo problem and is spreading to the Dutch Reformed.
I have been advising Dutch pastors and elders to read two authors on the issue:
- the scholarly Leon J. Podles (two expensive books)
- the Alaska man’s man David Murrow (several affordable books and audiobooks)

Principle 11 of 286. Universal suffrage, but in terms set by the states, not the top-level government.

I can't think of anything more depressing than the prospect of the E Michael Jones vs Vaush debate. How does the man who believes in a transcendental good convince a complete nihilist he's wrong about everything?

My prediction is EMJ will say:
''You're living in filth, son, and it's destroying the world''

And Vaush will say:
''I like the filth, we all love the filth, and there's nothing you can do about it!''

I didn't realise I could despise Vaush any more intensely. His disrespect towards EMJ was quite incredible. Some of the things he said to him, an old man, were simply shocking. Within the living memory of most people, it would have been unthinkable for a young man to speak that way to an old man, and any young man who did would have to expect universal contempt from society for doing so.

Of course, Vaush himself is an agent of the very moral decline which makes such behaviour "acceptable". He is truly a creature beyond any redemption, and his conduct towards EMJ proved that definitively.

Goodness is an affront to Vaush, as are honesty and integrity. He is a man without any moral core, without any culture, without any soul, just a grotesque consumer. A sack of atoms who belongs on Supermarket World, languishing alone in the stench of his own unholy appetites.