The Military Wives Choir is Christmas Number One. Not such an achievement as in the years before digital downloads but a signal of army and charity working together downgrading the victor of reality tv, Little Mix, to its deserved grade. The record outsold the next 12 contenders combined: with proceeds to the Royal British Legion and the Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association.
Contrast this with the archbishop of our established church. According to Rowan Williams, we are an atomised society, divided by riots and financial speculation. This dark picture, perhaps not intended in his sermon, but nevertheless painted by journalists from his statements, also tenders solutions: not spiritual solutions, but temporal solutions. The government must do more. We should institute a Tobin tax.
The very state that has stepped in to smother mutual trust is lauded as some ersatz Emmanual in substitution for a saviour that the established church has placed far far away.
Again, the actions of thousands of buyers this Christmas prove that yet again, the spiritual and ethical instincts of the clergy are wholly wrong.
