'The intelligentsia ignored the irruption of religious fanaticism into domestic British politics. In the face of these foes of civilisation, silence is the worst form of cowardice'

The Church of England's decision not to censure Rev. Stephen Sizer highlights its, and wider society's, reluctance to condemn anti-Semitic bigotry

The 17th-century Dean celebrated prosperity as well as poetry and felt no need to transform the Church into an agency of social work

The zealous former Canon Chancellor of St Paul's has made himself the protesters' poster boy but left the Church a laughing stock