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How Rowan took on the establishment - and lost

26 March 2012

Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, longed to take risks but was thwarted by Church courtiers and cronies more concerned with their own survival.

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Bishop Chartres arrived at St Paul’s like Churchill at the Admiralty

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The week I was fired by the nicest man I know

25 July 2011

The Archbishop of Canterbury’s outgoing PR adviser, George Pitcher, on the Telegraph, a throwaway joke and how he lost his job at Lambeth Palace after Rowan Williams’s NS guest edit.

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