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

London, UK

spectator.co.uk/writer/damian-…

Born January 24

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Damian Thompson
@holysmoke
Aug 29
Genius! Young people can’t get enough of being lectured by a radical nun in front of cringe-inducing 1960s ‘art’.
McGrath Institute for Church Life
@McGrathND
Aug 28
How can the Church better accompany young people? This October, we’ll gather at the McGrath Institute for Church Life for a conversation on young people and synodality, bringing together bishops, scholars, researchers, and ministry leaders to explore ways the Church can
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Damian Thompson
@holysmoke
Aug 28
Christopher Plummer’s original performance is inexpressibly touching. They were crazy to dub it over.
Petronella Wyatt
@PetronellaWyatt
Aug 28
Christopher Plummer, who was a concert standard pianist with a fine musical ear, was furious when his singing voice was dubbed in “The Sound Of Music” (1965), and went on a drunken rampage through Salzburg. (He told me in an interview that the dubbing incident was one of the
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Damian Thompson
@holysmoke
Aug 28
I should have made myself clearer. There’s a minority of trads – many of them ‘sede-adjacent’ in the current jargon – who seem to take a perverse delight in any setback because it enables them to push the notion of Francis 2.0. The rest of us have no trouble recognising that Pope
Damian Thompson
@holysmoke
Aug 28
TLM provision *expanded* in US diocese. Now let’s see how the liberal hardliners and their trad allies try to spin this.
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Damian Thompson
@holysmoke
Aug 28
I think of Peter Hitchens as inheriting the mantle of the great Commander Bill Boaks: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Boaks
alexmassie
@alexmassie
Aug 28
Important contribution from one of our greatest National Treasures.
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Damian Thompson
@holysmoke
Aug 28
If the great @TonyLapidus put this is one of his sketches we’d accuse him of going over the top.
Paul Rowntree
@paultrowntree
Aug 28
Replying to @BruvverEccles and @TimGuile
Sadly, one consequence of @holysmoke blocking PH is that he will not have access to what must be the most hilarious post that was not intended to be a joke ever posted on X (below).
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