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In the case of the Bishop of Oxford v Archbishop Cranmer

On 10th May, the Bishop of Oxford, the Rt Rev’d Steven Croft, instructed his lawyers to demand that a post on this site be taken down. The letter from Birketts LLP was published in full, and a response was sent…

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Christ Church ‘victim’ Alannah Jeune inadvertently corroborates that Martyn Percy is the real victim of a gross injustice

May 25, 2022
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When Alannah Jeune, the ‘victim’ in the renowned case of Christ Church, Oxford vs Dr Martyn Percy (which somehow became conflated with and morphed into an allegation of sexual harassment),…

The Sue Gray Report is about as independent as a Church of England independent inquiry

May 23, 2022
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The Sue Gray Report into Partygate – which saw 126 fines handed out to 83 people, including the Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer, for attending 'events' in No.10…

Christ Church’s magic £millions make the Dean’s safeguarding risk disappear

February 9, 2022
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It is widely reported that the Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, the Very Rev'd Professor Martyn Percy, has agreed a mediated settlement with the Governing Body of the College, and…

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Oxford Dons plan litigation against Archbishop Cranmer

January 10, 2022
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In all the recent reporting in the Times and Private Eye about the continuing saga at Christ Church, Oxford, there has been a slight omission. Perhaps it's so slight that…

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Martyn Percy is ‘mad and unfit to govern’ Christ Church, Oxford

December 15, 2021
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Let us consider a scenario in which the governing body of an academic institution takes an intense dislike to their teetotal principal and head, and their only mechanism for getting…

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Christ Church cannot afford the perception of a ‘Show Trial’

November 26, 2021
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Integrity should lie at the heart of every public institution. In the United Kingdom, Her Majesty the Queen models the highest standards of behaviour which ought to be followed across…

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Martyn Percy empathises with Holocaust victims, and a conspiracy emerges

November 15, 2021
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We are supposed to believe that a Christ Church undergraduate was casually surveying the website of the Very Rev'd Professor Martyn Percy, as students at the University of Oxford regularly…

Archbishops’ Racial Justice Commission has just one Conservative member

October 11, 2021
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The Archbishops' Racial Justice Commission was announced last week. It is a 12-member board, chaired by former Labour MP Paul Boateng, now Lord Boateng, and its members include just one…

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Who wrote the ‘Dirty Dossier’ on the Dean of Christ Church, Oxford?

June 16, 2021
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Christ Church, Oxford, is being challenged to reveal who produced controversial safeguarding documents aimed at its Dean, the Very Rev'd Prof. Martyn Percy. The unattributed Risk Assessment relates to the…

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Christ Church Oxford Trustees could be personally liable for £85K each

February 8, 2021
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Followers of the Dean Martyn Percy story will recognise it as a tragedy not only for the individuals concerned, but also for Christ Church Oxford and the Church of England.…

Martyn Percy is a ‘sex pest’: Christ Church Oxford in new attempt to oust the Dean

January 12, 2021
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The Governing Body of Christ Church Oxford has been supported by the Chapter of the Cathedral in a vote to convene another internal tribunal to oust Dean Martyn Percy. There…

Legal Aid: why is the Government riding roughshod over the rights of the poor?

July 12, 2019
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It is a well established part of the life of General Synod that the clergy and laity can submit motions for debate to the Business Committee. Synod time is both…

Before peace, reconciliation and healing, there must come reckoning

March 31, 2019
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Donald Trump is not a modest man. He is not polished, well read, stylish, university educated, 'sophisticated', or a paragon of moral virtue. But he is the duly elected President…

Legal Aid is in crisis: can the Church of England help ensure justice?

December 18, 2018
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The Brexit drama is sucking the oxygen of publicity away from many other newsworthy stories, and one of the more regrettable casualties is the parlous state of our Legal Aid…

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The harrowing of Martyn Percy: Oxford University denies natural justice to the Dean of Christ Church

November 19, 2018
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Look here upon this picture, and on this. These images are not separated by years, but a matter of months. You may wonder how the Very Rev'd Professor Martyn Percy,…

The BBC destroyed Sir Cliff Richard, just like the CofE dishonoured Bishop George Bell

July 19, 2018
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Standing outside the High Court yesterday, Sir Cliff Richard cried. He had just been awarded £190,000 general damages against the BBC (infringement of privacy; general effect on his life), plus…

Ethan Couch and ‘affluenza’: where is God in the absence of visible justice?

July 2, 2018
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‘The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers’ (Henry VI, Pt II, IVii). Sure, I know. Some pernickety pedant with a literary bent is going to tell me…