Shameful matter

Regarding the Presidents Club dinner and reaction to it, it is interesting to compare it with another, somewhat underreported event this week.

On Monday the Archbishop of Canterbury made a shocking confession in a Church of England press release, stating that his Church had covered up, ignored or denied child sex abuse by its clergy for the last 70 years. It is a sad indictment of our times, therefore, that this week’s dose of moral outrage and indignation has been reserved for adult males for one night at a black tie dinner in London rather than adult males in the pulpits of the “established” Church for the last seven decades. One wonders what the Queen, who is head of the Church and Defender of the Protestant Faith, thinks about it all. The Prime Minister, herself a practising Anglican and vicar’s daughter, has also been silent on the matter. Time for Disestablishment?

ALISTAIR MCBAY National Secular Society Atholl Crescent, Edinburgh