PETER HITCHENS RESPONDS TO THE ARCHBISHOP: “Why is it so bad to draw a line between the deserving and the undeserving poor? I have searched the Sermon on the Mount for the words ‘Blessed are the Spongers’ and I cannot find them – or anything remotely like them. So why does the Archbishop of Canterbury speak as if it was obvious that we should treat people who can work, but won’t, in the same way as we treat those who are truly in need?” Because drawing such distinctions would not advance his agenda.

Plus this: “As Dr Williams has decided to take up political commentating, I think I shall do a little bit of Archbishoping.”