The Christmas holiday season is never complete for me until I have had my head plunged into a bucket of lukewarm, sententious platitudes, courtesy of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Justin Welby’s address on Friday was miraculous in its vapidity: it is, I think, the mark of the man. Back in the summer he joined the progressive anti-history obsessives in insisting that some church statues would need to be removed because they might offend modern-day sensibilities. He didn’t specify whether or not these included statues of Jesus Christ. Justin was always going to be a sucker for the programme advanced by a tiny minority of liberal maniacs who wish to abolish the past because they disagree with some stuff that happened in it.

Source: The Times January 03, 2021 00:33 UTC