News about John Newton

We got it wrong: After a volunteer officer told a Christian singer that she should "stop performing church music outside of church grounds," Met Police apologised for their 'causing offence.'

www.dailymail.co.uk, January 30, 2024
Following the confrontation, the officer may not have told the Harmonie London, 20, to avoid performing her songs, according to her. She says she was 'humiliated','sad', and 'bullied' after the incident. Following a performance of Amazing Grace, volunteer Maya Hadzhipetkova was accused of disrespecting the musician's fundamental right to expression and faith today. The Met has since confirmed that the suspected misconduct was due to unlicensed busking rather than the content of the songs she was performing, and that the video was part of a 43-minute discussion between the pair.

Piers Corbyn, the conspiracy theorist, is killed during the Extinction Rebellion church service in Extinction

www.dailymail.co.uk, April 21, 2023
Piers Corbyn, the conspirator, crashed an Extinction Rebellion church service in London today, arguing that man-made climate change 'does not exist' and that they were 'working for the Devil.' The brother of former Labour chief Jeremy Corbyn rants at a Waterloo congregation before he begged a vicar to get him off as he was led out. Many who attended the conference on climate change, dubbed "No Faith in Fossil Fuels," began to sing the John Newton hymn Amazing Grace as the outspoken anti-vaxxer was dismissed. Corbyn came to fame as a vocal opponent of Covid vaccines and lockdown restrictions, who has been jailed multiple times, including for comparing Britain's jabs rollout to Auschwitz. Climate change is triggered by lunar and solar phases, not carbon dioxide emissions, not carbon dioxide pollution,' he says, and Greta Thunberg, a Swedish campaigner, has been branded a 'ignorant, brainwashed child.'