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Anglo-Gaullist. Writer, school governor, charity trustee, volunteer w/ @orderofmaltaGB | Southwark. Formerly of New York, Buenos Aires, Fife, the Western Cape.

London, England
Joined August 2011
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2 years
OUP has rebranded, and it's shite.
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Dogs in pubs are a sign of civilisation.
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1 year
You will never be as bad ass as Princess Anne during a kidnap attempt.
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2 years
Tim Farron, former leader of the Liberal Democrats, said the late Queen “was a constant to us all… but the constant in her life was her faith in Jesus Christ.” Her religion was neither perfunctory nor ceremonial but “a living, active faith in a living Saviour”.
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1 year
It is barbaric that we used to print books in a size and format actually convenient and usable for readers and that this stopped without any explanation whatsoever.
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4 years
Man in a biohazard suit riding a unicycle playing the Rhodesian national anthem on flaming bagpipes. “… Give us strength to face all danger, and where challenge is to dare��”
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2 years
If you’re looking to buy a college campus, Cazenovia (f. 1824) in central New York is shutting this year.
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1 year
Communists are good at hiding that the USSR spent the first third of the war effectively allied to the Nazis. The 1941 May Day parade in Red Square included a delegation from Nazi Germany.
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2 years
Or maybe…
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2 years
Britain, before the urban planners were unleashed.
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2 years
Need an app listing London pubs with working fires that also sends alerts when the fire is lit.
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2 years
Remembering the late Michele Ferrero — invented Nutella, Kinder Eggs, Tic Tacs, and Ferrero Rocher. The richest man in Italy, he had a statue of Our Lady of Lourdes in every company office and factory and paid for his workers to go on pilgrimage to the Marian shrine. Hero.
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2 years
Blest is the land that has a prayer as its anthem.
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2 years
OUP is now a subsidiary of Obama Industries.
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BBC mate once asked a local the significance of Cumbernauld Town Centre. “Aye — it's like the mothership has landed… from the Planet Shite.”
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4 years
Just remembering pubs. They were brilliant.
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2 years
On behalf of the King of the Zulus, the venerable Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi has sent condolences to the House of Windsor following the death of our late sovereign Elizabeth II.
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9 months
Find yourself a country where the charity private schools have students dressed in Tudor uniform whose band plays Soviet songs about Polish fields at an annual parade honouring the Lord Mayor of the semifeudal square mile in the middle of the capital city.
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9 months
“Let not your heart be troubled…”
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1 year
Aesthetically ideal solution to renovating the Palace of Westminster: make a temporary Parliament at the @ORNCgreenwich . Put the Commons in the Painted Hall and the Lords in the Chapel.
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7 years
BREAKING: Virginia's Washington & Lee University to be renamed after Denzel Washington and Spike Lee.
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2 years
I mean… it’s a vibe…
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10 months
Nipped in to the gallery of the House of Lords today for the Prorogation. Heard the old Norman French words ‘Le Roy le veult’ uttered in Parliament for the first time since 1951.
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Andrew Cusack
2 years
Sometimes the directors of a German contemporary art museum are *exactly* what you'd expect them to look like.
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1 month
New altar rail just installed at the art-nouveau gem of a Catholic parish church, St Mary Magdalen’s in Wandsworth East Hill.
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Andrew Cusack
3 years
The Panama Canal is a marvellous feat of engineering.
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1 year
Palm Sunday at the Holy Sepulchre.
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3 years
The exact location where the Georgian era became the Victorian.
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2 years
Anglofuturist Space Oxbridge
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2 years
This is the urbanism we need. 🎄
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4 years
Few things are sadder than that all the proud brick Edwardian schools across London have been turned into luxury flats while children are now forced to study in New Labour plastic boxes.
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Andrew Cusack
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Parisians shouting « vive le Roi ! » 👌 magnifique
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2 years
I don't ask for much from the government, but I do ask for a large-scale revival of Norman architecture.
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2 years
Turns out depictions of Great Britain in wartime Mexican propaganda are something else. 🇲🇽🤝🇬🇧
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5 years
"The Poles were made free by their Catholic faith, their patriotic feelings towards their country, their sense of history, and their courage to face up to the terrible system that had been imposed upon them. And they set an example to the world." — @Roger_Scruton in #Poland
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3 years
Wishing you a blessed and happy Christmas.
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Andrew Cusack
6 years
Snow in Rome this morning. The Swiss Guards made a snowpope.
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Andrew Cusack
4 years
Here's wishing a very happy birthday to Mother Dolores Hart – Hollywood actress turned Benedictine abbess. This year is also the 50th anniversary of her solemn profession at Regina Laudis Abbey in Connecticut. As an AMPAS member, she's the only nun with a vote in the Oscars.
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Andrew Cusack
3 years
R E T V R N
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4 years
Christopher Lee was attached to SOE during the Second World War and lived to 93 — he saw a fair bit of the world. Here he gives his admonition not to get involved with the occult: "I warn all of you: never, never, never. You will not only lose your mind, you'll lose your soul"
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"The Archbishop of York said, ‘Jesus was a black man.’ The trouble is, it isn’t true. Jesus wasn’t a black man. He wasn’t a northern European either. He was a Jew. A Jew from the Middle East." – @WalkerMarcus 🔥🙇‍♂️👏 So, so right Marcus.
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2 years
Derby was practically Vicenza.
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2 years
Guys… guys… I think we should hear him out.
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4 years
Today at Wardour Castle in Wiltshire, Mass was offered using the Westminster Chasuble warn by Cardinal Wolsey at the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520. It was brought back by Thomas Arundell 500 years ago and kept by his descendants to this day. #fieldoftheclothofgold
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Andrew Cusack
4 years
America has the Oval Office and Great Britain has Downing Street but the Prime Minister of the Netherlands has his office in the Torentje ('turret') of the Binnehof.
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2 years
This month is the fourth anniversary of the death of Lt Col #ArnaudBeltrame , murdered by a terrorist after exchanging himself for a hostage.
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1 year
There's a movement for Sardinia to leave the Italian Republic and join Switzerland as a 'maritime canton'.
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Brits used to get congrats for going to university. It’s become such a scheme that now if someone’s 18 and we hear they’re not going on to uni people say “Good for him!”
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3 years
More of this, please. 🙏
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3 years
Mass today offered for the repose of the soul of Fra’ Matthew Festing.
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3 years
The College of Charleston, founded 1770 in the Province of South Carolina. #charleston #southcarolina
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4 years
Midnight Mass, the Brompton Oratory (Yoshio Markino, 1906)
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2 years
R.I.P. Rev Dr Ian Ker — the leading expert on St John Henry Newman
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1 year
Lusotropical residential modernism is good. 🇧🇷
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2 years
Britain was poorer in 1953 but less stingy: We built stands to house 8,000 guests for the Coronation instead of 2023's meagre 2,000.
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3 years
Seventy-three years supporting our Sovereign. R.I.P.
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Andrew Cusack
4 years
The best response is to the mosque-ification of the Hagia Sophia is to commission an absolute baller of a Netflix series recreating the visual glories, intrigues, and beauty of Byzantium to reawaken awareness of the Christian Roman Empire.
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7 months
We need to rebuild it.
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Andrew Cusack
4 years
On starless nights the inhabitants of Paris would cower in fear as the giant I. M. Pei would come to select another innocent to imprison in his pyramid of despair.
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4 years
Cricket is back. | Bamburgh, Northumberland
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2 years
A good man: simultaneously kind, blunt, generous, and stalwart — no nonsense. He suffered for the truth. R.I.P.
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Andrew Cusack
5 years
Hearty congratulations to Gavin Ashenden, Honorary Chaplain to the Queen 2008-2017, who will be received into the Catholic Church this Sunday by the Bishop of Shrewsbury. 🙏
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“The successful Catholic churches in this country are those which are increasingly rooted in our ancient Catholic traditions. Many many young people are flocking to Catholic churches which are resurrecting the ancient Mass and its beauty.” — @EdwardLeighMP
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2 years
Nice to see the Lords clerks back in their wigs. They were shamelessly abandoned under the previous Lord Speaker.
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5 years
This past week I witnessed national treasure Peter Hitchens ( @ClarkeMicah ) cycling down my street in Chelsea and then 20 minutes later Gordon Ramsay driving a supercar down the King's Road. I know which side I'm on.
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Andrew Cusack
3 years
Please pray for the repose of the soul of Deirdre T., who died last week. A veteran of more than two dozen pilgrimages to Lourdes with @orderofmaltaGB , she was incredibly patient and kind.
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3 years
Of the many minorities who call the land of Israel home, I think the Circassians are the coolest. Concentrated in Rehaniya and Kfar Kama in northern Israel, they are certainly the best dressed. The King of Jordan has Circassian guards. #Circassians #Adyghe #Israelis #Israel
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5 years
Switzerland’s democracy, Solzhenitsyn points out, “did not spring from the ideas of the Enlightenment, but directly from ancient forms of political life”. #switzerland #solzhenitsyn
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3 years
F E A R G O D H O N O U R T H E K I N G
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1 year
The Germans — just to be typically infuriating — still do it. The French even more so. It's the norm there. But almost unheard of in Angledom.
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3 years
There is a campaign to @RebuildHighbury & Islington station. This is definitely something we can get behind.
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3 years
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4 years
America’s Favourite Lesbian™
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4 years
The mayor of Columbus announced today that the city will be renamed Huītzilōpōchtli, and the explorer's now-empty plinth will be used as an altar on which to sacrifice the conquered inhabitants of other Ohio cities to satiate the sun deity's bloodlust.
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A 22-foot-tall statue of Christopher Columbus was removed from outside the Columbus, Ohio, city hall after the city's mayor called for it to come down.
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1 year
Latvian railway safety videos are based.
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3 years
May his soul and the souls of all the faithful departed through the mercy of God rest in peace.
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4 years
@EduardHabsburg One of my favourite bits in the Hungarian Parliament building is the cigar holders in the corridors around the chambers.
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9 years
Some Christmas cheer: nothing in this photo was there 20 years ago. We can have a better future if we choose to.
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9 months
Imagine wanting to become an architect to make the world a more beautiful and better place — and then ending up designing this. If you can figure out how this happens and fix it, you can prevent a lot of harm.
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Sunderland's multi-million-pound southern train station entrance officially opened its doors today. Read:
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Massive crowds at Westminster Cathedral. Absolutely packed for Our Lady of Fatima.
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1 year
The Quarant'ore (Forty Hours) Adoration opens tonight at @LondonOrat with Mass at 6:30 pm — one of the most beautiful events in London.
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4 years
When the wartime Grand Rabbi of Rome converted to Catholicism he took as his baptismal name Eugenio, the name Pius XII was baptised with, in gratitude for the Pope's widely praised efforts for the Jewish people during the War. #PiusXII
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Pope Pius XII, accused of silence during the Holocaust, knew Jews were being killed, researcher says
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4 years
Proposal to make deepfaking the Sovereign a capital offence.
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9 months
English academic architecture is second to none.
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9 months
My brother must have one of the best university accommodation views in the world
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@si_rubinstein At St Andrews there would be perpetual tourists asking you “Where is the campus?” that you’d have to explain to that’s not how it works here.
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3 years
We live in a beautiful country.
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2 years
@EliotWilson2 And Jews “observant”.
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Kaap die Goeie Hoop 🇿🇦🧡⚓️
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4 years
Deeply irritating when the French term 'banlieues' is translated into English as 'suburbs'. The two terms have roughly the opposite connotations: one dystopian, gritty, brutalist; the other leafy-green, safe, and comfortable. Just import banlieue into English. Let people learn.
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5 years
New build development in Flanders. It’s possible to build the beautiful houses people want instead of mass-produced cheap corporate boxes. #newbuild #housing #architecture #traditionalarchitecture #peopleplaces #createstreets #yimby
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2 years
Signs and portents will you see.
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Sunday night's "Supermoon" at St Michael's Mount in Cornwall
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Andrew Cusack
4 years
I expect @holland_tom is familiar with the Chinese prime minister who became a Benedictine abbot. Many don’t realise Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek were also Christians. Christianity is not foreign to China.
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2 years
A splendid mediæval survivor, The George is deep in the psychogeography of old Southwark:
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3 years
Fr Gergő Bese blessing Viktor Orbán's offices for Epiphany.
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Andrew Cusack
4 years
Theresa May: "My concern is that the Government today making it illegal to conduct an act of public worship for the best of intentions sets a precedent that could be misused for a government in the future with the worst of intentions." @theresa_may
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Andrew Cusack
2 years
Your house being burgled? Your child being threatened? An offence in progress? Sorry: our officers are busy — there's a woman standing in a street who might be praying.
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Mary Margaret Olohan
2 years
Police in the UK arrest a woman for silently praying: "Are you praying?" "I might be praying in my head."
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5 years
It's happening.
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