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09 Jan 2013
... because the first official journey took place on January 9th, 1863. But here's an amazing image of possibly the actual first journey in 1862. More info about the picture HERE.
And here are 150 fascinating facts about the Tube.
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12 Oct 2012
It's not very often you'll find me tipping my hat to a Tory politician, but Boris Johnson's support for gay marriage - and his rejection of religious objections - in the UK's Independent is plain-speaking and totally unequivocal. In fact, it's a delight.
Read the whole thing HERE (it's not very long).
"The key thing about faith - at least in this country - is that you can choose whether to believe or not, and you can pretty much choose how to observe your faith. But you can't (really) choose where you are born, or the laws under which you grow up whether you are gay or straight. And marriage is an ancient human institution that is far older than any of the religions that are practised today. It may well be beloved by God, but no religion has ever had a monopoly on marriage."
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28 Nov 2011
An angry racist woman on a tram in London with a child in her arms loudly, angrily, unashamedly harangues a whole carriage load of passengers that she doesn't consider British because they aren't white. The other passengers show considerable restraint till an older black woman and then another white woman eventually let her have it.
(via BuzzFeed)
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15 Feb 2011
It is expected that on Thursday the UK government will announce plans to end the ban on civil partnership ceremonies taking place in places of religious worship. However various media outlets are now reporting that they will also announce proposals to legalise gay marriage, and also to extend civil partnership to heterosexual couples.
If Britain does go ahead with full marriage equality, our own civil partnership legislation will be looking behind the curve before it's really got going.
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13 Sep 2010
With the Pope arriving in Britain in a couple of days for his state visit, English Catholics are being urged to "make a financial contribution" to attend masses and buy papal hats, mugs, t-shits and other merchandize to help cover the cost of his trip.
Conversely, they are also being urged to protest.
I want to appeal to Britain's Roman Catholics now, in the final days before Joseph Ratzinger's state visit begins. I know that you are overwhelmingly decent people. You are opposed to covering up the rape of children. You are opposed to telling Africans that condoms "increase the problem" of HIV/Aids. You are opposed to labelling gay people "evil". The vast majority of you, if you witnessed any of these acts, would be disgusted, and speak out. Yet over the next fortnight, many of you will nonetheless turn out to cheer for a Pope who has unrepentantly done all these things.
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02 Sep 2010
According to a senior advisor to the Archbishop of Westminster, speaking just weeks before the Pope's visit to England. And guess who's to blame? Go on, I'll give you one guess.
Bingo! The gays! And abortion and the commercialisation of sex. Our usual bedfellows.
"Whether we like it or not, as British citizens and residents of this country - and whether we are even prepared as Catholics to accept this reality and all it implies - the fact is that historically, and continuing right now, Britain, and in particular London, has been and is the geopolitical epicentre of the culture of death," he said.
"Our laws and lawmakers for over 50 years have been the most permissively anti-life and progressively anti-family and marriage, in essence one of the most anti-Catholic landscapes, culturally speaking - more than even those places where Catholics suffer open persecution."
"Britain in particular, with its ever-increasing commercialisation of sex, not to mention its permissive laws advancing the 'gay' agenda, is such a wasteland."
Reports in the Guardian and the Independent with reaction from gay rights campaigners and others.
How utterly laughable. What kind of deluded lunatic looks around the world - at countries that torture and murder their citizens, where the systematic rape of women is used as a weapon, where women are bought and sold as chattels, where gay kids are hung in public, where dissidents are imprisoned and murdered - and then decides that civilized, democratic, gardening Britain is the epicentre of the "culture of death"?
Joan Smith, also in the Independent, comes to the defense of modern Britain.
I woke up as usual yesterday in the "geopolitical epicentre of the culture of death" - and very pleasant it was. I fed the cats, read the papers and carried an espresso into the back garden, congratulating myself on being a citizen of a country that doesn't stone women to death, hang gay men from cranes or murder people who change their religion. I mean, how great is that? I love living in the "selfish, hedonistic wasteland" that is London - both quotes come from one Edmund Adamus, who is apparently a senior British Catholic and an adviser to the Archbishop of Westminster - and I just wish more nations would follow our example.
Frankly, I'm tired of hearing religious bigots running down this country. For all its faults - crap public transport, Nick Clegg popping up everywhere and a national obsession with Simon Cowell - Britain is still one of the most civilised places in the world to live. It's not Iran, where prisoners are subjected to rape and mock executions; it isn't Saudi Arabia either, despite Mr Adamus's downright peculiar belief that we're more anti-Catholic than the Chinese or the Saudis. (Might I suggest he tries walking along a street in Riyadh carrying a crucifix and a Bible?) The Catholic Church has picked up this habit of dissing secular culture from hardline Muslims, who dislike pretty much the same things: gay relationships, equal rights for women and the freedom to mock religion.
Read the rest.
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01 Sep 2010
I was unaware that there was speculation that William Hague's marriage was in trouble and that he'd been having an affair with a 25 yr-old "special advisor", but apparently there was, and led to Hague releasing a very frank statement today. In it he absolutely denies the allegations, and laments that the man in question, Christopher Myers, has resigned because of them. He also goes on to reveal that he and his wife Ffion have had fertility problems and have suffered multiple miscarriages.
The Telegraph reports.
Full statement at the Financial Times.
"Christopher Myers has demonstrated commitment and political talent over the last eighteen months. He is easily qualified for the job he holds. Any suggestion that his appointment was due to an improper relationship between us is utterly false, as is any suggestion that I have ever been involved in a relationship with any man.
This speculation seems to stem from the fact that whilst campaigning before the election we occasionally shared twin hotel rooms. Neither of us would have done so if we had thought that it in any way meant or implied something else.
In hindsight I should have given greater consideration to what might have been made of that, but this is in itself no justification for allegations of this kind, which are untrue and deeply distressing to me, to Ffion and to Christopher.
He has now told me that, as a result of the pressure on his family from the untrue and malicious allegations made about him, he does not wish to continue in his position. It is a pity that a talented individual should feel that he needs to leave his job in this way."
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