Canterbury Lamb with Yorkshire Pudding

Where better to begin chronicling contemporary liberal idiocy than at the top of the Church of England. The destruction of the Elizabethan settlement which, for five centuries, was the foundation of the CofE is a subject to which I shall turn in detail in due course. For now, what of the leadership?

The Archbishop of York has shaved his head, taken up residence in a tent, gone on a fast and called for peace in our time in the Middle East.

Meanwhile, the Archbishop of Canterbury has issued a similar call for peace in a press statement which makes no moral distinction between Hezballah and the Israeli military.

One of the major problems facing the worldwide Anglican communion today is that of homosexual priests. Dr Williams hopes to prevent schism by hosting a summit next month, at which he hopes to broker a deal between liberals and conservatives. What odds that, he will indulge in little more than typical hand-wringing. trying to appease both sides and achieving nothing.

Futile gesture politics and indecision from the top.