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Cottrell and Carey: why is some safeguarding secret, while others are thrown to the media?

It was announced yesterday that the Rt Rev'd Stephen Cottrell, who next week is to be formally installed as the 98th Archbishop of York, had been investigated over a past failure of safeguarding. The incident is a decade old, and…

Christ Church’s PR agency colludes with FT journalist (and alumnus) to defame Dean

June 28, 2020
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There has been progress (of sorts) in the ongoing dispute between Martyn Percy, Dean of Christ Church, and the College’s Governing Body. The Charity Commission has ordered both parties to…

Screwtape: ‘Our task, as always, is to undermine and to divide’

April 6, 2020
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The 11th contribution to His Grace’s emergency team ministry during the coronavirus pestilence is another letter from senior devil, Screwtape, to his nephew and apprentice devil, Wormwood. It comes again…

Don’t judge an archbishop by a newspaper headline

October 27, 2019
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This is a very poor headline from the Sunday Times, purposely written to exasperate Brexiteer Tories and bring comfort and joy to all sorts of Remainery types. But it is…

Coptic Archbishop Angaelos says Christophobia is an ‘escalating phenomenon’

March 7, 2019
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The Coptic Archbishop of London, His Eminence Archbishop Angaelos, has given his support to the 'Stop Christophobia' campaign, the Premier initiative which seeks to draw attention to the 245 million…

Ding-Dong Merrily Online: what can the bust-up over Greggs vegan sausage roll tell us about the Nativity?

January 3, 2019
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In Gilbert and Sullivan's (probably mercifully) under-performed final collaboration The Grand Duke, a group of political degenerates try and bring down the government of a second-rate European power by means…

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Spectator urges knife attack on Archbishop of Canterbury

December 17, 2018
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Peace on earth and good will toward men? Not from the Spectator toward Justin Welby there isn't. The magazine has just published its Christmas edition which includes a Santa's wish-list…

Asia Bibi asylum application was not ‘blocked’ by Theresa May (the Daily Mail made that up)

November 29, 2018
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A few days ago the Daily Mail carried a quite shocking story about the Prime Minister's cold-hearted callousness. The report claimed that Theresa May had personally intervened and 'blocked' an…

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Tree of Life Synagogue massacre: Jon Snow stokes division with Channel 4 #FakeNews

October 30, 2018
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President Trump is due to visit Pittsburgh today to honour the 11 Jews of the Tree of Life Synagogue who were gunned down in the deadliest antisemitic attack in US…

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Lord Adonis incites hate against right-wing journalists

September 5, 2018
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There is no linguistic or visual nuance; no apprehension that people perceive things differently; no appreciation of the many-sidedness of truthfulness or the variable authority of the final word. For…

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Sizer: Jeremy Corbyn is target of Israeli Zionist plot

August 28, 2018
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While the Rev'd Dr Stephen Sizer was preparing to preach on Sunday about being a neighbour at St Mary's, Michelmersh; and about 'Christian Jihad' at St Mary's, Broughton and All…

Human Ken Doll: the cult of the young body, and judging by appearances

August 26, 2018
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"I don't watch big brother, I don't know this fella...," tweeted journalist, TV presenter and poet Stephen Dixon. "But a world that allows someone to do this to themselves instead…

Supreme Court Judge Anthony Kennedy retires: Donald Trump was elected for such a time as this

June 28, 2018
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Yesterday, the real prize of winning the last US General Election was presented to the American people. The resignation of US Supreme Court Judge Anthony Kennedy offers Donald Trump the…

Gosport hospital deaths: when did ‘life shortened’ become a euphemism for murder?

June 21, 2018
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The revelation that more than 450 patients died in a Gosport hospital after being administered an overdose of powerful painkillers is shocking and appalling. Or, in the words of Theresa…

Gerald Coates says Justin Welby denied saying that the EU was “the greatest dream realised for human beings since the fall of the Western Roman Empire”

June 8, 2018
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Gerald Coates attended a Lambeth Palace garden party, and has published an account on his Facebook page: Now this is curious, not to say confusing. Gerald Coates is one of…

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Giles Fraser goes to Syria, and the Times denounces his ‘moral decay’

April 20, 2018
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Giles Fraser visited Syria last week, and did lots of Giles Frasery things: he shook a few grand hands, chewed big political ears, kissed lots of children, prayed a few…

Where’s the headline: ‘Welby slams Sentamu’s lack of humanity and leadership’?

March 24, 2018
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Giving evidence to the Independent Investigation into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) this week, the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby was asked: The other thing that we have seen a lot…

Rowan Williams was denounced for saying Sharia Law in UK was inevitable, so why isn’t Justin Welby being commended for saying it’s not?

February 26, 2018
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Back in 2008, the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams delivered a cerebral lecture about society and pluralism to a huddle of lawyers gathered in London. It might have remained fairly…

Church spires to help spread pornography, blasphemy, gambling and fake news

February 18, 2018
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And lo, the Church of England signed an accord with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport to permit church spires and bell towers to be used to house…

Happy Inauguration Anniversary, Mr President. And thanks for getting back to the separation of powers

January 19, 2018
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One year ago, our friends in the USA exchanged one thin-skinned narcissistic president for another, and immediately a fresh chapter of their ongoing culture wars began. Less inhibited than their…