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Sep 27, 2026
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  1. Issue · Sep 27, 2026

    The Vexed Vicar - on England’s situation today (opens the original)

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    Chris Wickland: “We have the head of the church of England appointed by a woke Prime Minister — Islamic in its agenda they want to Islamify our culture and our legal system — we have a king who is to all intents and purposes Islamic and wants to Islamify our culture and we have a church of England who is herself into things like the Kairos 2 readings is pro-Palestine, pro-Hamas, and anti-Israeli, anti-Jewish. They’re the three power-lines that make England constitutionally a Christian country. O

  2. Issue · Sep 25, 2026

    Netanyahu’s speech at the UN (opens the original)

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    Chapter 1: Opening Remarks[Some of the UN delegates were heckling Netanyahu for nearly 2 minutes, and after being ordered to be silent by the chairman, left the building.]Before I begin, just a quick announcement. If there are any other moral cowards who haven’t yet left this hall, please do so now. Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen.FirstFactCheck is a reader-supported publication

  3. Issue · Sep 23, 2026

    Computer made of human brain cells AI data centre in Singapore (opens the original)

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    Cortical LabsCortical Labs is a Melbourne company that was in the news in March 2025 for making the first “commercial biological computer” with human brain cells in it, called CL1. They have now made a larger model which is ‘running’ in Singapore.CL1 — first biological computer Dr Brett Kagan is the scientist responsible for this travesty, and launched the first version of the “product” at C1, a technology conference in Barcelona. In the first model, there were hund

  4. Issue · Sep 21, 2026

    Why I like to say “please” and “thank you” to AI. (opens the original)

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    When I’m asking questions of an AI, eg Grok, which I tend to use a fair bit for research ( I check Grok’s answers by the way, as much as I can, if it’s for one of my articles), I make a point of always saying “please” and “thank you”.Although I am fully aware the AI is only a machine, but it’s myself I’m more worried about: if I start getting used to not saying please or thank you when I’m requesting something, that might mean I forget to say please and thank you when speaking with real people.

  5. Issue · Sep 20, 2026

    Oslo bishop removes John 3:16 from King Harald’s funeral liturgy (opens the original)

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    Oslo Bishop Sunniva Gylver wants John 3:16 (For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life) removed from the Church of Norway’s funeral liturgy. In Norway this Bible verse is called the “little Bible”, because it summarises the whole message of the Bible. FirstFactCheck is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscri

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