David Wells
@revd.bsky.social
Husband, grandpa, parish priest (CofE), servant of 2 black cats. Sometime physicist, violinist, fell-walker. Interests include politics, contemplative Christianity (Merton, Underhill, Finley, Laird), SF and Greece (especially Corfu and Ithaca).
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The tree had been up for maybe a minute
December 7, 2025 at 12:23 AM
The tree had been up for maybe a minute
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Surprising to see an institution with the impeccable moral integrity of FIFA toadying up to Trump
December 5, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Surprising to see an institution with the impeccable moral integrity of FIFA toadying up to Trump
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December 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Watched BBC 6 o clock news. Just a completely unserious broadcast. Chris Mason, acting like a children's entertainer, giving a prolonged impenetrable editorial. Not a whiff of informative content about the Budget or what it means for the country. Just playschool blah blah bollocks.
December 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Watched BBC 6 o clock news. Just a completely unserious broadcast. Chris Mason, acting like a children's entertainer, giving a prolonged impenetrable editorial. Not a whiff of informative content about the Budget or what it means for the country. Just playschool blah blah bollocks.
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This is a useful thread on the controversy today. But away from the detail, when BBC Verify have to effectively fact-check their own Political Editor (who is *not* a columnist but an Editor at a public broadcaster!), you know there is something of a problem.
Did Rachel Reeves and the Government “mislead” people about the state of the public finances and the need for tax rises before the Budget?
I think this is a rather complex question & the answer is not black and white.
A thread…🧵1/12
I think this is a rather complex question & the answer is not black and white.
A thread…🧵1/12
December 1, 2025 at 1:53 PM
This is a useful thread on the controversy today. But away from the detail, when BBC Verify have to effectively fact-check their own Political Editor (who is *not* a columnist but an Editor at a public broadcaster!), you know there is something of a problem.
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While skeptical about the final sentence, I think the rest of this clip is actually really really good. 👏
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 12:44 PM
While skeptical about the final sentence, I think the rest of this clip is actually really really good. 👏
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November 30, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Politicians and pundits who describe themselves as atheists while preaching "cultural Christianity“ are an *interesting* feature of current British politics.
November 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Politicians and pundits who describe themselves as atheists while preaching "cultural Christianity“ are an *interesting* feature of current British politics.
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Michelangelo, The Creation of Adam (1512)
November 27, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Michelangelo, The Creation of Adam (1512)
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This should not simply be forgotten in the busy news cycle.
Earlier this morning, President Trump threatened me and a group of service and veteran Members of Congress with arrest, trial, and death by hanging.
Here’s my response:
Here’s my response:
November 26, 2025 at 7:36 PM
This should not simply be forgotten in the busy news cycle.
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Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
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November 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
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Budget day at last.
November 26, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Budget day at last.
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The Bishop of Norwich has taken aim at the Home Office’s asylum reforms, warning they’ll make integration harder and deepen division. A rare intervention – and a sharp one.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
New: Bishop warns asylum plans will fuel division
A senior Church of England bishop has criticised government asylum reforms, warning they will make integration significantly harder
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The Bishop of Norwich has taken aim at the Home Office’s asylum reforms, warning they’ll make integration harder and deepen division. A rare intervention – and a sharp one.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
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This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace
Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Six weeks since the PM said Britain faced a choice between decency or division and our bad, obviously, for not understanding that he was in fact Team Division
November 17, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Six weeks since the PM said Britain faced a choice between decency or division and our bad, obviously, for not understanding that he was in fact Team Division
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More evidence that the #Synod papers relied on by the House of Bishops to radically change the trajectory of the LLF process is full of holes.
A house built on sand.
viamedia.news/2025/11/17/c...
A house built on sand.
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Cries of Suffering: A Response to ‘The Nature of Doctrine and the Living God’ - ViaMedia.News
by Mike Higton, Professor of Theology and Ministry at Durham University The Faith and Order Commission’s recent document on ‘The Nature of Doctrine and the Living God’ (GS Misc 1429) is not, in my jud...
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November 18, 2025 at 12:41 AM
More evidence that the #Synod papers relied on by the House of Bishops to radically change the trajectory of the LLF process is full of holes.
A house built on sand.
viamedia.news/2025/11/17/c...
A house built on sand.
viamedia.news/2025/11/17/c...
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Oh dear. What have I done now?
November 18, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Oh dear. What have I done now?
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1/ Typically excellent from @chrisdillow.bsky.social of course chrisdillow.substack.com/p/on-incompe... but I think if you really want to grasp what he's saying two other pieces of his are handy.
On incompetence
Much of our political culture is fundamentally incompetent.
chrisdillow.substack.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:34 PM
1/ Typically excellent from @chrisdillow.bsky.social of course chrisdillow.substack.com/p/on-incompe... but I think if you really want to grasp what he's saying two other pieces of his are handy.
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With the ending of permanent asylum, taxes on foreign students, two U-turns on income tax, a refusal to listen to business concerns about hiring costs, again I ask ‘who are Labour for?’ What is the vision underlying all these choices other than responding to last week’s polls?
November 15, 2025 at 10:36 AM
With the ending of permanent asylum, taxes on foreign students, two U-turns on income tax, a refusal to listen to business concerns about hiring costs, again I ask ‘who are Labour for?’ What is the vision underlying all these choices other than responding to last week’s polls?
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No single US news source is consumed by more than 25% of Americans, whereas 60% of Brits regularly watch/read/listen to the BBC.
A single shared source of truth makes it harder for partisan echo chambers to form, or for divisive narratives to dominate. It’s good for social cohesion and compromise.
A single shared source of truth makes it harder for partisan echo chambers to form, or for divisive narratives to dominate. It’s good for social cohesion and compromise.
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
No single US news source is consumed by more than 25% of Americans, whereas 60% of Brits regularly watch/read/listen to the BBC.
A single shared source of truth makes it harder for partisan echo chambers to form, or for divisive narratives to dominate. It’s good for social cohesion and compromise.
A single shared source of truth makes it harder for partisan echo chambers to form, or for divisive narratives to dominate. It’s good for social cohesion and compromise.
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November 8, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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I'm strongly suspect that "ethical AI usage" is about as morally coherent as "ethical usage of systemic racism"
November 7, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I'm strongly suspect that "ethical AI usage" is about as morally coherent as "ethical usage of systemic racism"
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"Ich askid ChatGPT." Well *Ich* askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.
November 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
"Ich askid ChatGPT." Well *Ich* askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.
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“Each decade we shiftily declare we have buried class and each decade the coffin stands empty.”
November 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
“Each decade we shiftily declare we have buried class and each decade the coffin stands empty.”
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I would love to ask the new editor of Question Time how booking Goodwin, an extreme racist who openly fosters division and civil unrest, fits into his vision of “community and shared expression”
November 2, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I would love to ask the new editor of Question Time how booking Goodwin, an extreme racist who openly fosters division and civil unrest, fits into his vision of “community and shared expression”