The serving Archbishops are Lords Spiritual (but +Justin isn't that any more) and retired Archbishops normally get a life peerage in their own right. I think it's a separate step, though ot… (View Post)

And his Rowanness had plenty of Church of England heritage; doing his formation whilst lecturing at Mirfield and being ordained while in Ely diocese. (View Post)

And with five parties, the distribution of votes is mega-important. You can utterly clean up on thirtysomething percent of the vote, provided the opposition vote is uniform enough. The reason the lef… (View Post)

For some people, lack of favouritism is impossible to distinguish from retribution. (View Post)

Though Welby was a very junior bishop when he got the Canterbury gig- he'd been in Durham for just over a year. George Carey didn't spend that long eating babies in Bath and Wells before ge… (View Post)