Brothers in Christ

With galumphing British tact, the House of Windsor has chosen the week in which Virginia Giuffre's memoir was released to announce that the House of Windsor remains by no means averse to hobnobbing with squillionaire sex abuse rings. The head of the firm and supreme governor of the Church of England is to betray the legacy of his fellow divorcee Henry VIII by becoming the first reigning English monarch in several centuries to join a pope in disobeying the Saviour's commandment at Matthew 6 vi, thereby demonstrating for the benefit of anyone who came in late that even Christians can agree on a few things provided they don't also have to agree with Jesus. His Majesty will graciously accept the title of Royal Confrater of the Abbey of the Basilica of St Paul Outside the Walls: an honour which, as an Anglican spokesbeing proudly proclaimed, will be of no consequence whatever. Meanwhile a spokesbeing at the Ministry for Wogs, Beads and Trinkets pronounced the UK's relationship with Vatican Incorporated more important than ever at a time of global instability. It would certainly be regrettable, with fascism on the march across the western world, if the master race should neglect its ties with Mussolini's pet theocracy.