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Damian Thompson

@holysmoke

Associate Editor, The Spectator, presenter of its Holy Smoke religion podcast. Once described as 'A blood-crazed ferret' by the Church Times

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linkhttps://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/damian-thompson/ calendar_today20-12-2008 21:37:55

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Pleased to join this The Spectator Out Loud podcast, where I cover pilfering in vestries, disappearing portraits, the decline of the neck-tie, the return of Gregorian Chant, and challenge our bishops to a singing competition...

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How should the church respond to today's vote? This quote helps: ā€œI say in a hundred years, if Christians are known as a strange group of people who don’t kill their children and don’t kill the elderly, we will have done a great thing.ā€ Stanley Hauerwas

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No point wondering how those MPs who voted for abortion up to birth and euthanising the vulnerable sleep at nights. They’ll sleep fine because they’re either morons or sociopaths.

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Never felt quite so alienated in my own country as this last few weeks. When the inevitable scandal emerges, there are 314 MPs to blame.

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All my adult life, except once, I have voted Labour. After the events of this week, and the deceitful way they have pushed their grubby little agenda through, I will never vote for them again

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In the old days decent Labour politicians’ commitment to the vulnerable meant banning infanticide or disposing of inconvenient sick people through lethal objection.

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A colleague texts me: ā€˜The government should issue a formal apology to Harold Shipman. He was just ahead of the curve. A pioneer, really.’

A colleague texts me: ā€˜The government should issue a formal apology to Harold Shipman. He was just ahead of the curve. A pioneer, really.’