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Bye-bye Boris! So long Brexit?

Boris Johnson stepped down today as leader of the Tories, but intends to stay as Prime Minister until October.

However his own MPs are already urging him to step aside straight away to avoid months of paralysis in Government.

Former Deputy Prime Minister Lord Michael Heseltine said in a reaction that ‘if Boris goes, Brexit goes’ and urged the next Conservative Party leader to renew ties with Brussels.

The former Deputy Prime Minister said Boris Johnson’s departure will likely lead to a shake-up in relations with the European Union, as it was the key policy he nurtured.

He also warned that “extreme anti-Europeanism and right-wingism” would be a “suicide course” for the party.

July 7, 2022 at 1:00 pm Leave a comment

Weltuntergangs-Porno

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FUD – “Fear, uncertainty and doubt”…

“Doomscrolling” ▶️ https://kurier.at/leben/doomscrolling-wie-negative-nachrichten-die-psyche-belasten/402068188

July 7, 2022 at 7:06 am Leave a comment

On Wednesday, 6 July 2022, Women’s Euro 2022 in England start with a match between the Lionesses and Austria in Old Trafford. England will be the host team, the Netherlands will be the defending champions, and Northern Ireland will participate in a UEFA Women’s Euro competition for the first time.

England qualified automatically as hosts of the tournament, but there should be few doubts about their playing credentials. After reaching the semi-finals of the last three major tournaments under Mark Sampson and Phil Neville, the Lionesses appear to have hit new heights, taking their game to a different level under the guidance of the former Netherlands manager Sarina Wiegman.

England manager Sarina Wiegmann: second from right

Here is the England squad in pictures ▶️ The Guardian

After 14 games, including 12 wins, with 84 goals scored along the way since Wiegman started work last September, the expectations surrounding the England team have soared and no one is quite sure how England will react to the attendant pressure.

And these are the Austrian players who play against England in Group A together with Norway and Northern Ireland ▶️ https://www.fussball-wm.pro/frauen-em-2022/mannschaften/oesterreich-kader/?amp

Irene Fuhrmann ist seit 2020 „Teamchefin“ des österreichischen Frauenteams

July 5, 2022 at 11:21 pm 1 comment

Praise the Lord

*Pic from: Awakening Europe 14.07.22 – 17.07.22, Ahoy Arena, Rotterdam*

The butterfly on the praying man’s shoulder shows the beauty of God’s creation. If everything on earth was made by the one God, and if it’s true that this God is beautiful or is Beauty itself, we can rightly feel that order, pleasure and beauty are the norm. That’s the way creation is and should be according to God’s order.

Of course, we then have to explain the disorder, the ugliness, the pain and illness we find everywhere in this world.

But the point is that if the one God is good, which I firmly believe, then we have to talk of “the problem of evil”, not the “problem of good”, because the good things should be the norm according to God’s order.

We often tend to think that evil is overwhelming (especially when we read news of war, famine, accidents, etc or suffer of illness, anxiety and pain ourselves). But there still is so much beauty in this “fallen world” that we can believe that we were made for something better and by Someone Better.

And if that God is for us, there is enough reason for faith, hope and love. And if God us for us, who can be against us?

(cf. Michael Lloyd, Cafe Theology – Exploring Love, the Universe and Everything, 3rd edition, 2018, 38 f)