Bishop of Guildford

Archbishops go on consecration strike – they will make no more bishops

Something peculiar happened in the Church of England last week. We are, of course, very used to peculiar things happening in the Church of England, but this was so peculiar that it made no column inches in the mainstream media,…

Iwerne David Conner Dean Windsor John Smyth

Iwerne: what did David Conner (now Dean of Windsor) and others know about John Smyth’s regime of abuse?

November 6, 2018
0 Comments

Many years ago, I worked as a duty solicitor, undertaking day and night visits to the local police stations. There were not many on the rota and it was a…

Let’s not forget that Corbyn defended Rev’d Stephen Sizer, who spread an antisemitic conspiracy theory that Israel was responsible for the 9/11 terror attacks

March 27, 2018
0 Comments

"The Labour Party has deep historical connections with British Jewry and its sister party in Israel," observes the Times, as the whole Labour movement becomes mired in Jeremy Corbyn's anti-Semitism…

Bishop of Liverpool slams Trump/Brexit voters who “bow the knee to hate”

November 21, 2016
429 Comments

Amazon have produced a warm, cuddly, interfaith Christmas ad. And it's authentic: there are no actors. A real-life vicar and a real-life imam exchange gifts (knee-pads) to help make praying…

Donald Trump: the triumph of political incorrectness over incorrect politicalness

May 4, 2016
349 Comments

Unless the GOP does something silly – like steal the nomination in a contested convention by engineering a last-minute coup – it looks as though Donald Trump will be…

Rev'd Stephen Sizer: "Show me evidence Israel wasn’t behind 9/11"

January 30, 2015
556 Comments

As the civilised world was choking in the memorial lamentations of Auschwitz 70-years-on, suspended in that space of sorrow somewhere between needing to remember yet yearning to forget, the…