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Elvis Presley’s manager, Colonel Tom Parker, ordered loads of badges with ‘I Hate Elvis’ printed on them. These were to sell to all the people in a given town who were not purchasing the Elvis merchandise. He therefore profited from both fans and non-fans. Clever.

A box-worth of song booklets has come to light. Salem Chapel, like many others, succumbed to the temptation to produce its own hymn booklets ‘for special services’. I flicked through and did not notice anything particularly notable. Judging by the printing fonts and cheap paper, it was made in the 1930s-1950s, or the sixties at a push.

According to the eighth-century Muslim historian Ibn Ishaq, Ubayd Allah ibn Jahsh ibn Ri'ab, cousin to Muhammad, abandoned Islam and converted to Christianity in Abyssinia (Ethiopia). His former comrades would say to him:

“We see clearly, but your eyes are only half open”.

He saw more in Jesus Christ than all others see who try to look past Him.