Yes. A direct cause of the Post Office scandal was that the law was changed so that courts must assume computer output is correct. The Law Commission misunderstood an expert who argued the opposite. The MPs passing the law joked that their kids would have more chance of understanding it. 😡
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Mainly here to learn about the Anglosphere, Sinosphere, politics, and theology. Not Chinese but I try to 实事求是. Anonymous for visa & sanity reasons.
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Reformed more or less as in the Articles of Religion (there's one line I'd quibble with): www.churchofengland.org/prayer-and-w... Statues and rituals are covered in Articles XXII and XXXIV.
Articles of Religion | The Church of England
Articles of Religion, from The Book of Common Prayer (1662). Cambridge University Press, 2006 edition.
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Seems we can follow @rebeccabexchapman.bsky.social or read Michael Hayden's daily reports at areformedcatholic.substack.com
A Reformed Catholic | Michael Hayden | Substack
I write about issues of theology, church history, historical theology, and the modern church. Click to read A Reformed Catholic, by Michael Hayden, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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It's stopped on X as well.
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TIL that this account covers surrenders as well as sinkings. Probably because there haven't been a lot of surrenders in RN history....
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Today's @yougov.co.uk Daily Poll asks whether immigration is rising or falling. The provisional, unweighted responses show people think it's rising, just as you say. The final weighted results will be interesting.
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This is Home Office brain, regardless of the party on power. They see everything in their responsibility as a form of crime that is resolved by tougher laws (even if they're never enforced). The UK has long needed a migration or integration department like Australia.
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The value of the tithes that funded the clergy. Except that most of those would go to the rector (who might be an abbey, lay landowner, etc.), rather than to the vicar who had the spiritual responsibilities. £12 is worth about £9,500 today, though many parishioners would have lived on much less.
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You could have said the same about the early Marxists or the early liberals in their coffeehouses or the Bloomsbury set. They went on to change the world. I'm not promising Blue Labour will, but it often takes a generation for big ideas to gain mass support.
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Surely the government isn't revisiting voter ID because it's trying to focus on a limited number of core missions, not get distracted into a battle on Tory territory. It would be easier to repeat voter ID as part of an electoral reform package including compulsory attendance.
