Peterborough Denied

As somebody or other once said, you cannot serve both God and Mammon; and while the Church of England has served God well enough to amass about ten and a half billion in investments, it does not seem that Mammon is sufficiently concerned with serving the Almighty's real estate. The Church pays about fifteen per cent of the running costs of Peterborough Cathedral, whose historical, cultural and architectural heritage is valued by His Majesty's Government at precisely nil; and any contributions made by the Church's fellow squillionaire and titular owner of His Majesty's Government are no doubt purely moral. Consequently there are threats afoot to turn Peterborough's pious pile into a part-time cathedral, which of course would only make sense in the unlikely event that enough Anglicans happened to be part-time Christians. Since there is apparently little possibility of the cathedral staff labouring in return for no more than the privilege of doing their Father's will, another measure under consideration is to cut back on community work such as support for refugees: what the Farage Falange might credit as Reform Christianity.