Like many people in the UK, I have great sympathy for the plight of dairy farmers, who have struggled for years with the fall in the effective cost of milk. The move by supermarkets to start another price war means that dairy farmers are making a loss on every pint of milk they produce, and […]
Category Archives: rants
Life after the rapture – on grabbing the microphone
The biggest “Christian” internet event of the year so far was the prediction that the world was going to end on 21st May 2011 at 6pm in each time-zone. The reaction by Christians has been either to ignore it, to join in lampooning it as extremely stupid, to protest loudly that they have nothing to […]
Praise the Lord and press the accelerator
I’ve been an active, adult Christian for about the same time as I have been an active supporter of green modes of human transport. For me, the two all but go inseparably together. So when I saw this story about Christians praying for lower gasolene prices – and apparently getting an answer to their prayers […]
On having the armed forces
There’s an interesting, if badly-spelt, debate going on on the BBC Have Your Say website. This follows a recent news report of how personnel from RAF Wittering have been ordered not to wear uniform in the local town of Peterborough, following incidents of servicemen and women being insulted because of anti-war sentiment. The debate includes […]
St Paul had it easy
The first thing to say is that I think the whole shift of culture in the Church of England after the report Mission-shaped Church has been wonderful for anyone who wants to risk trying to plant Fresh Expressions of Church. When I think back just seven years, the Church of England was comparatively in the […]
Virginmedia fault-reporting rip-off: BEWARE!
Today I had a problem on one of my email mailboxes, which had refused any access since 8pm last night. I couldn’t get into it, either through POP3 or through their webmail pages. So I visited the status pages. Nothing was showing up so since it hadn’t resolved itself for 12 hours, I assumed that […]
A grumpy post on early Christmas shopping
It’s of the devil. There’s no doubt about it. The way that the mad rush to begin (and hence complete) Christmas shopping before some kind of consumerist Tsunami takes over the high street becomes a fixation in people’s minds. The result is that more and more of us are taking to the shops earlier and […]
Recycling in Bristol isn’t working
OK – here’s the rant about recycling which I threatened earlier. Tracey has already described her woes. For us, E-day happens on 8 August, but we’ve known it’s been coming for some months now. From that day, routine garbage collection moves from a weekly to a fortnightly basis. The present situation is already a shambles, […]