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Faith leaders make 'moral case' to Nicola Sturgeon for doubling Scottish Child Payment dailyrecord.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailyrecord.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
May 28 marks the 70th anniversary of the influential British radio comedy program “The Goon Show,” which inspired fans from the Monty Python group to John Lennon. The Jewish content of The Goons, comprising comedians Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers as well as the Welsh singer Harry Secombe, is usually overlooked amid the show’s comedic chaos and anarchy. Milligan, the presiding genius over the surreal scripts, cherished the Jewish roots of his colleague Sellers, whose mother was of Ashkenazi and Sephardic origin. After Sellers died in 1980, Milligan wrote a letter to the editor of The Jewish Chronicle, a periodical founded in 1841, to complain that “at no stage [of the funeral ceremony] was there any attempt to introduce any connection with the Jewish side of [Sellers’] family. As his Mother was Jewish, most certainly then he was Jewish, whereas he did choose to be a Christian (though sometimes he fancied various other religions), his whole attitude and personal ....
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Bishop Mark Strange, Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church ‘Unto us a child is born.’ Those are the words I will proclaim on Christmas morning. But this year the cathedral will be very quiet, with only fifty worshippers allowed to attend. There will be no singing, no hugging, and no handshakes, yet the message will be the same; the joy will be the same. People talk about the pandemic ‘stealing’ Christmas or that the Government’s rules have ‘cancelled Christmas’. My response is that these verdicts are nonsense. The birthday of Jesus cannot simply be cancelled any more than my own birthday can be cancelled (however much I may wish it could). What will be different this year are the festivities of our Christmas holiday. ....