[Andy McDandy]

A lot of people feel a bit more Christian at Christmas, at least a bit warm and fuzzy and inclined to caring - that's caring as in watching a news report and going "ooh, what a shame", rather than giving absolutely no shits at all.

Christians do get persecuted. Worst offender is probably China, but let's just leave that. The reaction he's hoping to get is not picketing the Chinese embassy, but slumping a little further into the sofa and moaning that you can't sing baa baa black sheep any more.

For a lot of people, Christianity is not so much about God, or a moral code, but shorthand for mainstream white anglospheric life.

[mr angry manchester]

I knew a bloke once who felt that Christianity was, at root, an early attempt at socialism. You know, caring for your fellow man, booting the money changers out of the temple and and so on

[Abernathy]

I knew a bloke once who felt that Christianity was, at root, an early attempt at socialism. You know, caring for your fellow man, booting the money changers out of the temple and and so on

There's something in that. Socialist & Christian values are fairly congruent. Tony Benn used to subscribe to that view.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

So does the Dalai Lama.

[Watchman]

A lot of people feel a bit more Christian at Christmas, at least a bit warm and fuzzy and inclined to caring - that's caring as in watching a news report and going "ooh, what a shame", rather than giving absolutely no shits at all.

Christians do get persecuted. Worst offender is probably China, but let's just leave that. The reaction he's hoping to get is not picketing the Chinese embassy, but slumping a little further into the sofa and moaning that you can't sing baa baa black sheep any more.

For a lot of people, Christianity is not so much about God, or a moral code, but shorthand for mainstream white anglospheric life.

And think "I've done my 2nd trip to church this year (1st is at Easter), and I am a sanctimonious white man because I feel so virtuous........but I can see why people don't go, all that praying and preaching, not for me thank you!"

[Biggus Robbus]

Jeremy Hunt enrages Slovenia by wrongly saying it was 'a vassal state of the Soviet Union'

Fine grasp of history right there.

[Big Arnold]

In a related gaffe reported by local media, the UK’s Slovenian embassy tweeted that Hunt was in the country to meet Karl Erjavec, when in fact he left his role as foreign secretary last year.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... n-slovenia

[mattomac]

We are doing well at not offending any potential trade partners.

[youngian]

There’s no start to Hunt’s talents. Didn’t Trump mistake Estonia for a former Yugoslav state? Despite his wife coming from one.

[Cyclist]

Cyber-attacks could turn elections into "tainted exercises" that undermine Western democracies, the foreign secretary has said.

In a speech in Glasgow, Jeremy Hunt said authoritarian regimes view democratic elections as "key vulnerabilities" to be targeted.

But he stressed there was no evidence of successful interference in UK polls

coughBrexitcough

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47478865

[bluebellnutter]

Guess that's his leadership ambitions gone up in smoke...