Alex Massie Alex Massie

Canterbury and Downing Street

Gordon Brown may be a son of the Manse, but it’s the Archbishop of Canterbury, of all people, who has picked up a presbyterian cudgel with which to whack the Prime Minister. To wit:

The Archbishop of Canterbury criticised the government’s fiscal stimulus package on Thursday, likening it to “an addict returning to a drug.”

Then again, it hardly matters. It’s not as though many people listen to the Church of England anyway….

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