Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs

Rev Jamie is back with a solo episode that starts with absurdity and ends with righteous anger.
🔥 The Home Office’s jaw-dropping pamphlet telling asylum seekers that “in the UK both people must say yes to sex” – complete with unfinished sentences and cartoon illustrations. Madeleine Grant calls it Victorian moralising; Jamie calls it something far darker.
👑 Prince Harry’s latest “hostage video” for the Diana Award: systemic racism, unconscious bias, and the obligatory apology for the sins of previous generations. Production values that would embarrass a parish podcast.
🎓 Academia continues its descent: a very tall man in a dress receives an honorary degree for DEI activism at the University of Bradford… while Cambridge’s Education Faculty hires someone who once called for engineering degrees to produce “advanced weaponry for jihad.”
And the main event: the continuing fallout from Jason Arday’s death. Nathan Cofnas speaks. The Bishop of Croydon and former Archbishop Rowan Williams turn the tragedy into a morality play about “bullying” and “basic human dignity” – while ignoring the plagiarism, the fabrications, and the DEI machine that put an unqualified man on a pedestal from which he had so far to fall.
Jamie names names, refuses the victimhood narrative, and asks the forbidden question: who is actually responsible?
Plus: the quiet death of the parish system under “oversight ministry” and why the Church of England’s technocrats don’t understand what a priest actually is.
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Rev Jamie returns with a powerful solo episode on the tragic death of Cambridge professor Jason Arday and what it reveals about our post-truth culture.
In this episode:
🔥 Jason Arday’s death and the reaction The James O’Brien interview, the rejection of meritocracy, the Trafalgar Square vigil, Diane Abbott’s claims of a “vicious campaign”, and the Committee for Academic Freedom’s response.
📖 Victimhood as the new sainthood How modern culture has taken the Christian idea of martyrdom and twisted it into identity politics.
⛪ Church of England Project Spire Alex Scott discovers her ancestor was a slave owner — and why race-based reparations make no sense.
⛪ Truro’s 21-church benefice Mass opposition ignored, and Bishop David Williams’ comments on “priest-centred” ministry.
Timestamps: 0:00 – Intro & apology on sociology 
3:30 – Lord’s Prayer & John 9 
11:30 – Jason Arday’s death and the culture war 
25:40 – The James O’Brien interview & meritocracy 
42:00 – Trafalgar Square vigil & Diane Abbott 
55:00 – Project Spire & Alex Scott 
1:05:00 – Truro 21-church benefice 
1:15:00 – Listener emails
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Jamie and Tom are back with another explosive episode.
🔥 Jason Arday / Cambridge scandal
The “inspirational” professor whose remarkable life story is collapsing, extensive plagiarism, incoherent teaching, a $1.15 million book deal still going ahead, and the toxic DEI culture that allowed it all to happen.
⛪ Madeline Grant on the Church of England
Why the CofE is still doubling down on Project Spire and 2020-era racial politics long after the rest of society has moved on.
⚖️ Massachusetts abortion law
A major change expanding access to later-term abortions — and what it reveals about the direction of Western culture.
Sharp, unfiltered, and no sacred cows.
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In this episode of Irreverend, Rev. Jamie Franklin examines two major stories making waves in the Church and wider culture.
1. The Archbishop of Canterbury in Ghana
Filmed visits to former slave sites, public displays of piety, and a renewed commitment to the Church of England’s £100 million slavery reparations fund. Historical claims, collective guilt theology, African involvement in the slave trade, British abolition, parish backlash, and the legal challenge now underway.
2. Oxford Union debate – “The West is right to be suspicious of Islam”
Protesters outside, Tommy Robinson on the panel, a revealing joke about him being “cooked,” the attempt to separate Islam from Islamism, the age of Aisha, and why the Christian-history comparison doesn’t work the way some claim.
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
5:37 Archbishop in Ghana & reparations
21:13 Oxford Union Islam debate
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The Church of England is sitting on an £11.6 billion endowment — yet parish churches are being closed, merged, and left without clergy or cash.
In this hard-hitting episode, Jamie Franklin interviews the Rev. Marcus Walker, rector of St Bartholomew the Great in the City of London and one of the key voices behind the Save the Parish movement.
They dig into:
🔥 The extraordinary growth at St Bartholomew’s (from ~50 to 250+) and why young adults are flocking to traditional high-church worship
💰 How historic parish money has been redirected while poorer churches struggle
⛪ The controversial push for 10,000 new lay-led church plants
📖 The Quiet Revival, the King James Bible, beauty, and why “relevance” often means the opposite of what people actually want
⚔️ What ordinary Anglicans can do to fight back
This is one of the most important conversations about the future of the Church of England right now.
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🔥 Stand for General Synod → https://www.savetheparish.com/general-synod-manifesto-2026/#
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