Intercessors For Britain

Intercessors For Britain We seek to stand in the gap for our nation & church, confessing its sins and crying to God for mercy. We all want a better nation!

We all long for a better government, a fairer and more just society, a more moral nation for our children to grow up in. But are we willing to do what God has called us, His people, to do? To humble ourselves
To pray
To seek His Face &
To turn from our wicked ways

If you want to see our Nation changed and the decline halted,
So do we! We are Intercessors For Britain
We seek to stand in the

gap for our Nation, to cry out for God's mercy on our land, and to ask for Him to act, to forgive our sin and heal our land. If you want to know more, check out our website
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At the beginning of May Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said 300 extra police officers were needed acro...
01/06/2026

At the beginning of May Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said 300 extra police officers were needed across London as he warned of a growing “pandemic” of antisemitism in the UK. Choice of the word 'pandemic' was clearly deliberate, and does indeed help us set this unprecedented increase in anti-Semitic violence in some sort of perspective. As this very helpful linked article from Out of Zion Ministries states: 'This virulent hatred against the Jewish people and Israel has now gone wild. It will not decrease, only increase. It is reaching levels not seen since the Holocaust. It is a major alarm.'
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Pray that we the church respond more courageously to this global pandemic than we did the last one. So many are either silent or weak when it comes to supporting Jews, and we the church must by contrast be courageous with our voices and our hands, and be known as those who love God's chosen covenant people. As Trevor Phillips said in the opening monologue of his eponymous Sunday-morning Sky News show, Jewish families around dinner tables sometimes discuss who of their Gentile friends would have protected them from persecution a century ago, and who would have turned their backs. He went on to say 'the question being asked is..."will they hide me?"...a thousand years of history is bleak evidence that they are right to fear that when the knock on the door comes they will once again be on their own."
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The sheer scale of Jew-hatred in the UK is worth revisiting so as to appreciate how dangerous the UK has become for Jewish people. In May 2025 alone, we have seen:

- t-shirts displaying the inverted red triangle, a symbol used by Hamas to mark Israeli and Jewish targets in combst zones, sold outside the Ministry of Defence;
- a 46-year-old man and 38-year-old woman arrested on suspicion of setting fire to a Golders Green memorial wall;
- a suspected arson attack on an abandoned synagogue in Nelson Street, London;
- a 35-year-old man arrested on suspicion of aggravated criminal damage after rocks were allegeldy thrown at a Hatzola ambulance;
- the DSV building in Bristol vandalised for its alleged connection to Elbit Systems;
- the Chubb Insurance building in Birmingham vandalised on account of its connections with Elbit Systems;
- allegations of a vehicle targeting a group of Jewish students walking home from school in Hendon as they crossed a pedestrian crossing, mounting the kerb near them;
- a man arrested in Salford after allegedly threatening to 'take knives and cut your ******* throat" and "Jew leave the country, and we'll make it like the N***s in the gas chambers."
- the Barclays Bank AGM interrupted by pro-Palestinian protestors for 'bankrolling Israel's genocide in Gaza"
- a man in his 60s arrested on suspicion of a racially aggravated public order offence in Manchester;
- a male suspect on board a bus in Stamford Hill detained by police for allegedly shouting "shame Hi**er didn't kill you" and "you should all go to the gas chambers";
- two men in their 20s, Adam Bedoui and Abdelkader Amir Bousloub, plead guilty to religiously aggravated rharrassment after filming anti-Semitic TikTok videos in north London;
- a pro-Palestinian protester arrested in Brighton for refusing to take down posters with Hamas symbols;
- British school teachers at Connaught School for Girls wearing keffiyehs going on strike to protest for Palestine just days before GCSE exams;
- a male arrested in Hackney for assaulting multiple visibly-Orthodox Jewish females by whipping them with his belt, abusing them verbally and then spitting at a Shomrim volunteer;
- a female arrested for punching a visibly-Jewish schoolboy outside a Jewish boys school in Stamford Hill;
- an 11-year-old boy riding his bike after school pushed into a shop shutter by a girl who giggled to her friends as she walked away;
- twoJews egged on Shabbat in Stamford Hill, on their way home from synagogue, with the force of one throw knocking one man to the ground;
- attendees at the Nakba Day festival in London shout "death to Israel";
- a 22-year-old man named Shalev physically beaten by masked men in Golders Green around 2am while speaking Hebrew on the phone, tearing his clothes, dragging him across the road, throwing his shows away, and cursing him in Arabic;
- a young man arrested for being caught on video saying "Jews are gonna get beheaded one-by-one";
- 49-year-old man David Smith arrested for pulling over in his white Mercedes in Salford to wait for a red light at a pelican crossing so that he could then roar towards visibly-Jewish pedestrians who had started to cross and then had to run back to the safety of the pavement;
- a Jewish woman spot a urine-filled bottle on a wall in north London with a label bearing swastikas and the words "screw the Jew";
- pro-Palestinian marchers in Leeds openly call for intifada whilst being protected by police;
- protesters enter Black Sheep cafe in Glasgow to tell drinkers they are drinking "Palestinian blood" because the cafe is a "Zionist cafe that supports the genocide of Palestine";
- 25-year-old Daniel Nikzamir arrested for a random attack on Jewish people outside the Beis Gavriel synagogue in Hendon, punching one person in the face and shattering their glasses;
- Helen Mirren called an "evil Zionist b****" in the street for her support of Israel;
- a 19-year-old man arrested for an offensive gesture outside Borehamwood synagogue that was caught on CCTV;
- the British Museum postpone their Jewish Culture Month event citing security fears;
- a woman claiming to work at Stansted airport was captured on video shouting "free Palestine" and using racist slurs towards passengers departing a flight from Tel Aviv - children could be heard crying in the background;
- graffiti reading "kill Zionists" found in Hackney;
- a man pictured at Arsenal's open-top bus celebration in London wearing a t-shirt stating "all Zionists are racists" threatening a Jewish man with a child's scooter.
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We should be overwhelmed and grieved by such terror. At the same time, we thank Him that He alone can bring hope out of these horrors. When we as a church and a nation fail to love the Jewish people, as the linked article sets out, 'anti-Semitism acts like a threshing fork in the midst of the harvest for Aliyah'. It is a strident claim, but one backed up by biblical prophecy and further substantiated by a Times of Israel report on a major Aliyah fair in London that took place in May, which saw a record 1,200 Jews attend. We pray God helps them find a home, and that they see their Messiah there.

I wanted to share in this week’s update, a message I wrote for a Zoom teaching I did just before Shavuot. I felt it should go further than that platform, for the sake of prayer for Israel and Aliyah.

There's a hidden horror going on in our society and we are grateful to SPUC (Society for the Protection of Unborn Childr...
01/06/2026

There's a hidden horror going on in our society and we are grateful to SPUC (Society for the Protection of Unborn Children) for shining a light on it - their linked article from last year gives a good background. We are talking about the commodification of children into objects that can be designed and bought according to the whims and demands of their owners, an approach that is gaining momentum in the UK. We need to pray that this creeping progression is halted in its tracks.
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According to Coalition for Marriage and their analysis of last week's Times newspaper story: 'single British men are “buying babies” from women in poverty overseas.' Between 2019 and 2025, 130 single men applied for parental orders for babies born abroad, while 23 applied for babies born to surrogate mothers in the UK. It is reported that mothers carrying those babies born abroad often live in poverty and are attracted by the huge fees they can expect if they carry, bear and then give up a healthy child. Same-s*x couple Adam Frisby and Jamie Corbett from Bolton, Lancashire have a baby daughter through surrogacy and were featured on BBC News last month because they are currently campaigning to change UK legislation so that they can be legally recognised as the baby girl's legal parents, instead of the surrogate mother.
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Meanwhile in a separate development, The Spectator published a story last month on Barrie Drewitt-Barlow, the 57-year-old man responsible (in their words) 'for normalising gay male couples having babies via surrogacy...he is very keen on designer babies and last year it was revealed that he had paid a Miami model £50,000 to be the egg donor for his husband, Scott Hutchinson, 32, "to stop our baby being ugly."' The article goes on to explain that 'Scott used to be the boyfriend of his daughter Saffron, but the gay couple now also have children together..between them, they have a number of children born via surrogacy...both men have now been charged with human trafficking for s*xual exploitation, r**e, and s*xual assault.' They both strenuously deny the charges and await trial.
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The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women called in October 2025 for a global abolitionist framework on surrogacy, labelling it “violence, exploitation and abuse”. Thirteen UK feminist organisations wrote to ministers in early 2025 demanding criminalisation of this terrifying and abusive industry. Libby Purves in The Times last month wrote that “a world which once shuddered at the idea that you could buy a baby off a total stranger has pretty much accepted it”. In response to these voices and others, Baroness Merron told the Law Commission in April 2025 that the Government is “unable to prioritise surrogacy reform”. Let's cry out to heaven for a change of heart and direction!

Last week, a UK court granted full parental rights to a couple in their seventies over a child born via surrogacy. Let that sink in – a newborn baby placed

This week marks something of a conclusion in a very long-running story in Scotland concerning the Scottish National Part...
27/05/2026

This week marks something of a conclusion in a very long-running story in Scotland concerning the Scottish National Party and their long-time leadership. Semi-satirical political commentary website Wings Over Scotland alleged serious financial misappropriation over six years ago, an allegation that publication of the SNP's 2019 accounts did little to contest. Financial wrongdoing at the highest level of the SNP has been something of an open secret in Scotland over recent years, but the confession and then arrest of their former Chief Executive Peter Murrell - also formerly husband to First Minister Nicola Sturgeon - confirms that £400,310.65 of donor money was embezzled on a lavish lifestyle that Judge Lord Young described as a "gross breach of trust".
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It is a grubby, grievesome story you can read the full details via the linked page, but this week's development is simply confirmation of what most already knew. Many questions remain unanswered, and it's possible that Mr Murrell's falling on his own sword is an attempt to deflect further questions in an investigation that has already reportedly cost the Scottish taxpayer £2.5m. What did the First Minister know of her husband's crooked expenditure? Was their relationship actually just a sad sham intended to prop up Sturgeon's office and her party's political fortune? Will loyal supporters who gave over their hard-earned cash ever receive it back? And where does this leave the broader independence movement in Scotland and its leading political party the SNP (who won 58 seats in this month's election, just 7 seats short of an outright majority).
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We have to be careful about how we react, don't we? For those of unionist persuasion, it can be easy to glory in the downfall of ideological opponents without grieving over the bigger picture. Sometimes we can become overly carnal, forgetting that there are indeed 'wings over Scotland' and that we need to pray from a heavenly perspective, remembering our weapons are "mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God" (2 Corinthians 4-5). There is a separate danger that we give up caring and praying altogther, such is our disdain and feeling of hopelessness!
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Without any doubt God has exposed what has been going on behind closed doors, and we should thank Him for that, and continue to pray that no-one escapes the scrutiny they deserve, so that we can grapple with the real depths of corruption in our state legislatures. Scotland and particularly its children are crying out for the protection of godly policy; perhaps something of that might arise from these ashes. Let's pray God reveals the strongholds over Scotland, its government, and its people. And more than anything else, we cry out for Christ to be exalted in Scotland, regardless of independence or of unity, and for His church to grow, in strength and in number!

So there it is. We did tell you so. There will be no trial, no cross-examination, no explanation. The people of Scotland, the members and supporters of the SNP, the wider Yes movement, none of us w…

There's so much filth to wade through in this linked article from Coalition for Marriage we nearly didn't post it, but w...
25/05/2026

There's so much filth to wade through in this linked article from Coalition for Marriage we nearly didn't post it, but we have to wrestle with the realities set before us and our children, and the spiritual strongholds of wickedness behind them, don't we? We've posted similar examples to those provided in the C4M article before, particularly related to the educational materials used in schools, but there are further news items and resources to explore here if you want to research further.
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You may have already heard about one particular item that the C4M article highlights: Labour MP Samantha Niblett's “summer of s*x” campaign. She is partnering with Cindy Gallop, who runs the po*******hy subscription platform MakeLoveNotPorn and a s*x-education site aimed, in Gallop’s own words on Spectator TV, at ages “0 to 18 and beyond”. As C4M state: 'Read that again. Zero to eighteen. S*x education for children in cots, built by the founder of a po*******hy platform with a sitting MP. Niblett intends to bring s*x toys into Parliament.'
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In addition to all this, today we learn via the Daily Telegraph that boys as young as 12 are now in romantic 'relationships' with online, virtual chatbots, behaviour that is negatively impacting their ability to form proper, respectful relationships in the real world.
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The C4M article ends with a call to action, and two specific practical steps we can all take. We would add a third, and it's actually the most important of all - pray as God leads you!

Last time I sat with Richard Lucas, leader of the Scottish Family Party, we went through Scotland’s new statutory guidance on what every child must be taught about s*x, relationships and identity, from the age of three. This time he showed me the actual classroom materials. I will not reproduce th...

When the House of Lords voted to allow the decriminalisation of abortion up to birth, many Christians were grieved, and ...
21/05/2026

When the House of Lords voted to allow the decriminalisation of abortion up to birth, many Christians were grieved, and rightly so. Further steps towards unfettered, industrialised and state-sanctioned shedding of innocent blood, blood that cries out to God from the ground every day, should shock us. Surely there is a need for the church in the UK to stop what it is doing for a season and really, truly, deeply and sincerely mourn as our Lord does. Surely the Lord wants to pour out more of the grief He feels into our hearts, that we might draw near to Him and repent. Perhaps the approaching sixtieth anniversary of the 1967 Abortion Act is an opportunity to do just that.
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Events of the 19th of March this year certainly seemed to have pricked many consciences across the nation, and not just inside the church. Outside of the church there has been substantial reaction from the nominally religious, from atheists, from agnostics and beyond. Many have expressed a certain moral outrage at the nation's descent into callous child sacrifice, and perhaps in this united outpouring of frustration and sadnes lies an opportunity for a united, righteous backlash.
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There are certainly fresh shoots of encouragement. Right now there are eight formal pro-life petitions lodged with the government. A church pastor we spoke to recently told us that, having tried to gain traction within their church on the abortion issue over many years, it was only now, post-decriminalisation, that they had gained a hearing. The pro-life Private Members' Bills selected for debate in the House of Lords at the start of the current government's second parliamentary session, described in the linked news item from CARE, are also a sign of renewed momentum in the pro-life movement.
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Let's praise God for these developments, and pray that they succeed. And let's pray more broadly for the pro-life movement. There is a need for unity, energy, divine providence, and spiritual power!

Two pro-life Bills – one on complications from abortions, and another on infants born alive – have been selected for debate in the House of Lords in the new Parliamentary session.

The 'Unite the Kingdom' rally took place in London on 16th May and was attended by thousands of people who wanted to com...
18/05/2026

The 'Unite the Kingdom' rally took place in London on 16th May and was attended by thousands of people who wanted to come together and demonstrate how proud they are of Great Britain. By many accounts the event and march were overwhelmingly peaceful, with the Metropolitan Police afterwards confirming 22 arrests of individuals identified as being part of the event. Taking place at the same time was a pro-Palestinian 'Nakba' event; according to Sky News 11 people participating in that march were arrested. At the latter event many participants were captured on video calling for the death of Unite the Kingdom leader Tommy Robinson (they chanted "shoot him in the neck like Charlie Kirk"), and the destruction of the entire nation of Israel.
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At the Unite the Kingdom event, Tommy Robinson (real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon) took the main stage and, amongst a variety of other segments and contributors, gave 5 minutes to Rt Revd Jwan B. N. Zhumbes, Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Bukuru in Nigeria. Robinson's desire was to highlight the persecution of Christians in other parts of the world, challenging what he perceives to be silence often offered by institutions like the BBC, Church of England and Catholic Church regarding the matter. You can hear exactly what Robinson and Bishop Zhumbes had to say in this linked video, but it is perhaps the latter's closing comments that resonate most deeply.
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"If you do not stand with the rest of the persecuted church, I want to assure you friends that what is happening to us is not static. It's migrating. The truth of the gospel has made you who you are today. You dare not abandon the gospel. You need the gospel. The gospel has become part of your culture. It's ingrained in you. No-one should come and rob you of that culture. It gives you all of the privileges you today enjoy. So please, it's my desire, my prayer, that you hold on to that gospel. Never let it go. May Christ reign in your life. May Christ reign in England. May Christ reign in every single community in England."
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It is a glorious thing to hear such a prophetic voice spoken boldly and loudly in the streets of our capital to thousands and thousands of people. It is an echo of similar prophetic challenges laid down before the UK church by our Nigerian brothers and sisters over many years. But that voice has perhaps never been heard in such a setting, and certainly not at such a febrile hour. May God give our streets and our pews ears to hear it, and respond earnestly, before it is too late!

Tommy Robinson addressed the persecution of Christians in Nigeria during the “Unite The Kingdom” rally in central London before welcoming a Nigerian Anglican...

From an earthly perspective, it's been quite a week in British politics!--- Plaid Cymru (a nationalist party) has gained...
15/05/2026

From an earthly perspective, it's been quite a week in British politics!

--- Plaid Cymru (a nationalist party) has gained power in Wales for the first time. ---

--- The Scottish National Party has retained power in Scotland to extend its 19-year reign, while a record number of MSPs stood down. ---

--- Reform UK have become the second largest party in both Wales and Scotland, and won over a thousand seats in English local councils. ---

--- The Green Party also grew significantly, after focusing its campaigning on a conflict hundreds of miles away in Gaza. ---

--- Two-party politics in England seems to have evaporated, with a fragmented electorate, a record number of local councils now under no overall control, and a hung parliament now a real possibility at the next general election. ---

--- The King's Speech went ahead as if the government is still in full control, with planned measures for this year including a closer relationship with the EU and a draft conversion therapy ban. ---

--- But the government isn't in full control, because after lots of rumours and plots, a leadership challenge against the prime minister now seems to be looming. ---

--- When not focusing on President Trump's and President Xi's balancing act over in China, the international media has noted the obvious turmoil and chaos in British politics this week. ---

But what's going on in the heavenly places, far above the realm of voters and politicians? Should we be interested in that? In the talk linked to this post, we look at a passage from Scripture to explore those questions a little further.

Ashley draws out some lessons from Daniel 10 and 11 at the end of a "crazy" week in British politics, looking at distractions, angels and a heart set on unde...

Away from the din of Westminster, we give thanks this week for a small but positive development: the British Medical Ass...
15/05/2026

Away from the din of Westminster, we give thanks this week for a small but positive development: the British Medical Association has dropped its opposition to the Cass review.

When Doctor Cass published her report into NHS gender medicine in 2024, warning that children were being given potentially harmful treatments that hadn't been properly examined, the BMA (which represents doctors across the UK) opposed her recommendations and embarked on its own separate study. But two years later, their own report has backed up Dr Cass's findings, and they are now changing their official stance on the issue.

We thank God for this, and pray it will make trans-affirming doctors re-evaluate their own positions.

British Medical Association says review into gender identity services was ‘robust’ after previously rejecting findings

There is no disputing Pastor Clive Johnston's profound reflection on his conviction today for preaching on John 3:16 wit...
07/05/2026

There is no disputing Pastor Clive Johnston's profound reflection on his conviction today for preaching on John 3:16 within one of Northern Ireland’s controversial abortion censorship zones. It is a dark day indeed. His short speech, and The Christian Institute Director Ciaran Kelly's statements, are well worth a listen, and available via the linked YouTube page.
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Mr Johnston, the former President of the Association of Baptist Churches in Ireland, who is being supported by The Christian Institute, has been convicted of two charges under the Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) Act for holding an open-air service on the fringes of a buffer zone opposite Coleraine’s Causeway Hospital last year. The grandfather of seven – who had never been in trouble with the police – now faces a criminal record and £450 in fines. It is expected that he will appeal.
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In the Institute's press release, Director Kelly states: “Despite assurances to the contrary when this legislation was being considered, we now see that an already controversial and deeply unjust law has now been selectively applied to criminalise gospel preaching. “This is creeping censorship. If the ruling stands it will represent a shocking new restriction on freedom of religion and freedom of speech so we will be helping Clive to consider the options for appeal.”
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This case underlines afresh just how important it is for us to respond to the injuction of 1 Timothy chapter 2 verses 1-4, doesn't it? Good law helps the gospel flourish and men come to know their Mediator. Let's pray that, regardless of the end result of this case, and creeping censorship in all areas, God makes each one of us relentlessly bold, and deeply wise. Our streets need the gospel, whatever man might say!

Pastor Clive Johnston responds after he is convicted and fined for preaching John 3:16 in an abortion 'Safe Access Zone'Website http://www.christian.org.ukFa...

It seems street preachers have been in the news a lot recently; perhaps it's no surprise, given increasing godlessness i...
05/05/2026

It seems street preachers have been in the news a lot recently; perhaps it's no surprise, given increasing godlessness in society and intolerance towards those brave enough to make a public stand in this way. Pastor Steve Maile was recently arrested in Watford following a public complaint; last year there was much ado about Rushmoor Council's proposed ban on street preachers in Aldershot and Farnborough, a proposal they ultimately dropped; and in recent days, we have seen Colchester City Council issue one particular church with a Community Protection Notice (CPN) banning intimidating behaviour (including, apparently, the mention of hell) and the use of loudspeakers.
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It's not always as straightforward as it seems; sometimes public complaints are deceitful and malicious; sometimes policemen and women get it right and uphold free speech, sometimes they get it wrong and fail to do so; sometimes street preachers are aggressive, deliberately obnoxious and fail to preach the good news faithfully; sometimes they are unfairly persecuted for righteousness' sake. It's not clear exactly what is going on in this particular case, nor the specific contents of this CPN.
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In this fascinating linked article, a journalist joins the Bread of Life Community Church team as they take the gospel to the streets in the area Colchester Council have banned them. It's another helpful insight into evangelistic work and the perspective of the public around us. As Bread of Life appeal their ban with the help of the Christian Legal Centre, and petition the council (the petition is public and can be signed via CitizenGo), let's pray that justice is done, and that whether it is or it isn't, we all continue to courageously and creatively take God's glorious good news out and into the street where the lost need to hear it. Whatever happens, we and the world around us will be blessed as we do so. Fruit always comes as we share His word!

Residents and businesses have complained about hellfire and brimstone sermons, but neighbouring MP Nigel Farage is siding with the preachers

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