Alex Deane: The plank in your own eye, Archbishop

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, has used a column in the New Statesman to criticise the Coalition for pushing through policies without public debate, advancing positions for which nobody voted.

He speaks, of course, from a position of authority. As a communicant member of the Church of England, I well remember the Archbishop's triumph in the third ballot against my own preferred candidate.

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