Rowan Williams, like so many other public figures over the past couple of months, sought to co-opt William Wilberforce in a speech yesterday. In an act of stupendous logical contortion, he uses Wilberforce, an elected politician (albeit in an era of rotten boroughs) as a tool for his argument against reforming the House of Lords:… Continue reading The sad moral decline of Rowan Williams
Tag: religion
Fork an Iguana for Queen and Country!
Respect is due to Hot Ginger And Dynamite’s post rant about St George’s Day. For the record, I’d love it to be a bank holiday as we don’t have nearly enough of them compared to the continentals. But that doesn’t mean I’m going to start waving a bloody flag all of a sudden, just as… Continue reading Fork an Iguana for Queen and Country!
Brown’s conspicuous piety
Following on from my post about Brown’s new book, Catherine Bennett echoes a lot of my own sentiments – and adds a few of her own – in the Guardian today.