…it sure sounds like one when you read this paragraph from Damian Thompson on the Anglican communion rescue:
What I didn’t know is that the proposals are tied to an intricate scale of “degrees of communion” – full, impaired, partial and broken – that will ascribed to different provinces by a Lambeth Communion Review Commission, which will itself be multi-layered, supervising Review Sub-Committees based on the Indaba model that will ascribe State of Communion Assessments to individual dioceses, non-territorial episcopal oversight areas and parishes. It would, of course, be inappropriate for the same Review Sub-Committees to cross the boundary between inner and outer circles of the Anglican Communion, and so – in a radical proposal drafted by Dr Rowan Williams himself – the Lambeth Communion Review Commission will divide into inner and outer circle Areas of Special Responsibility that will shadow each other’s assessments.
Well we can now conclude that Sir Humphrey Appleby didn’t die on Boxing Day 2001 after all, apparently he works for the Anglican communion.
Update: And like Sir Humphrey Appleby the paragraph above is a fictional parody of reality. The sad thing is if you read the real thing you really can’t tell the difference.
