The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has resigned following the storm surrounding his mishandling of a child sex abuse scandal.
In a statement, Welby said that it had become clear that he “must take personal and institutional responsibility” for the “long and retraumatising” period after he was informed of serious allegations in 2013.
The pressure on the Archbishop to resign reached a new intensity in the past 48 hours as senior colleagues joined in the calls for him to step down.
The Bishop of Newcastle, Dr. Helen-Ann Hartley, yesterday called the Archbishop’s position “untenable” and said urgent action was needed to prevent the Church of England “losing complete credibility”. This morning the Dean of Chapel at King’s College Cambridge, Dr. Stephen Cherry, told BBC Radio 4’s Today that Welby had lost the “trust and confidence” of the Church of England.
A number of other senior bishops were reported to have privately said that his position was untenable.
Since Saturday, more than 12,000 people had signed a petition created by General Synod clergy members Rev Dr. Ian Paul, Rev Robert Thompson and Rev Marcus Walker, demanding Welby resign “for the protection of the vulnerable, and for the good of the Church”.
Calls for Welby to quit were also trending on X over the weekend with the hashtag #welbyresign. Rev Fergus Butler-Gallie, author of Touching Cloth, wrote an open letter urging Welby to go “for the love of God, and Him alone” that was viewed over 400,000 times.
This morning, the Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Energy Secretary Ed Miliband piled the pressure on as they failed to back him, with Starmer saying the victims have “obviously been failed very, very badly”.
The abuser at the heart of the scandal is John Smyth QC, a barrister and Christian summer camp leader who is said to have subjected as many as 130 victims to sexual violence before he died in Cape Town in 2018 while under investigation by Hampshire police.
Details of the abuse were known as early as 1982 but only emerged in the public domain in 2017 thanks to investigations by the Daily Telegraph and Channel 4. According to the Telegraph:
Victims said Smyth would invite them to his home in Winchester where he would order them to strip naked and cane them on their exposed backsides. One said he could feel the blood spattering on his legs; another had to wear an adult nappy afterwards.
The scandal exploded this week due to the publication of an independent report, the Makin report, several years overdue, which found that Smyth’s crimes could have been exposed in 2013 if Welby, who had become aware of the allegations that year, had followed up to ensure the police investigated. His failure to do so meant Smyth was never brought to justice, the report said.
Andrew Morse, 63, who was violently abused by Smyth when a teenager in the 1970s, said Welby’s failure to act in 2013 was a “dereliction of duty” and a betrayal of victims.
He said: “I think it feels like he prioritised his position and the reputation of his church above the plight of the victims and, because Smyth was still alive at that time, above other potential victims as well.”
The Archbishop initially refused to quit, saying he had apologised for his own failures and the abuse by the Church in general but did not intend to resign.
In a statement to the Telegraph on Monday, a Lambeth Palace spokesman said:
The Archbishop reiterates his horror at the scale of John Smyth’s egregious abuse, as reflected in his public apology. He has apologised profoundly both for his own failures and omissions, and for the wickedness, concealment and abuse by the church more widely. As he has said, he had no awareness or suspicion of the allegations before he was told in 2013 and therefore having reflected, he does not intend to resign. He hopes the Makin review supports the ongoing work of building a safer church here and around the world.
It is the first time an Archbishop of Canterbury has resigned due to scandal. His predecessor Rowan Williams stepped down in 2012, but this was to take up a position as master of Magdalene College.
Welby knew Smyth from his time volunteering at Christian summer camps in the 1970s and contributed financially to his ministry during the 1980s. He claims to have had no awareness of Smyth’s abuse before 2013, though has recently admitted that he had been warned to “stay away” from Smyth in 1981. Welby told the Makin review this warning was vague and he assumed based on “incompatible personalities” rather than anything sinister. It evidently did not register as a cause for concern. He continued to send Smyth a Christmas card.
Unbeknownst to Welby, a secret report was compiled on Smyth’s abuse in 1982 by Mark Ruston, a vicar who interviewed 16 of his victims. However, following the report, rather than exposing Smyth or informing the police, the matter was covered up and Smyth encouraged to relocate to Zimbabwe, where he continued his abuse.
Whatever Welby did or did not know before 2013, the thrust of the criticism of the Archbishop is what he failed to do after 2013 when, now installed in Canterbury, he was informed of the full extent of Smyth’s abuse.
Welby was clearly at fault, as he admitted before he resigned when he apologised for not doing more. But he was also badly let down by his advisers. He was told by his then chaplain Jo Bailey Wells that the Bishop of Ely, Stephen Conway, who was handling the case for the Church, considered that the trust responsible for the camps (the Titus Trust) must not be informed at that point, because the matter was being investigated by the police. Makin writes: “Welby is told, therefore, that the matter is being dealt with, the police have been informed and a letter has been sent to the appropriate Bishop in Cape Town.”
Bailey Wells subsequently advised Stephen Conway that she would leave it to the Ely diocese to pursue and take no further action until the police had provided further advice. She has released a statement saying that at the time she was “not aware of the nature or extent of the allegations”.
However, it wasn’t actually the case that the police were investigating at the time, and damnably for Welby, he did not follow the matter up after this. This is despite the clear scale and severity of abuse, Welby’s personal connection to Smyth and the fact that at the time Smyth was still alive and active. Welby only took further action after the exposé in 2017. Even then, it took him until 2021 to do what he had promised in 2017 and meet with victims.
Makin acknowledges: “Welby advised reviewers that he was consistently following advice from police and safeguarding colleagues.”
In other words, Welby is not accused of failing to follow correct safeguarding procedure. Rather, he is accused of failing to go beyond that procedure and make sure action was being taken. Because he knew he was following procedure (and maintains he didn’t know before 2013) he thought he could survive. But he was wrong. Following the letter of the law was not enough on this occasion, not when you’re the Archbishop of Canterbury and you knew the perpetrator personally, and when it involves the most prolific known abuser in the Church’s history who at the time was still at large. Welby failed to see the additional dimensions of the scandal, beyond the strict adherence to safeguarding protocol and advice, and when this came to light he lost the confidence of his colleagues and the wider public.
Part of the problem he faced was that he had himself taken a very firm attitude to others over alleged safeguarding infractions, most notoriously suspending the Bishop of Lincoln, Christopher Lowson for almost two years in 2019 for similar allegations of failing to handle safeguarding matters correctly. Welby later reinstated him and apologised. In the past few weeks Welby told a podcast that covering up child abuse was a “dismissal offence” and the Church would take tough action against those seeking to protect “wicked people”. Little surprise, then, that he could not hang on when the tables turned.
Justin Welby has been a highly controversial Archbishop of Canterbury over the 11 years he has been in post, particularly among conservatives both inside and outside the Church. He has made numerous political interventions, invariably from the political Left, including last year criticising the Conservative Government’s flagship Rwanda scheme to address illegal immigration. He has branded his church “deeply institutionally racist” and backed radical race-based initiatives, such as a commitment to give away £100 million of C of E funds in ‘reparation’ schemes. He has driven forward an extreme eco-agenda, with the C of E committed to hitting Net Zero carbon emissions by 2030. And he recently faced calls to resign after bringing in church services for the blessing of same-sex couples and admitting that he no longer accepted the Church’s biblical teaching on marriage.
He came under fire for closing churches during Covid and for what was widely seen as a managerialist, anti-parish agenda inspired by the disgraced former Post Office CEO Paula Vennells of Horizon scandal infamy, whom he backed to be Bishop of London in 2017.
He was also facing a further challenge this week in a judicial review of a decision not to allow a disciplinary case to be brought by Rev Dr. Bernard Randall, a chaplain who was banned from ministry for giving a sermon at a private school on identity politics and LGBT ideology. Despite being cleared of all wrongdoing, Randall remains barred from ministry due to a decision by the Bishop of Derby, Libby Lane (known for being the C of E’s first female bishop). The judicial review addresses Welby’s failure to permit Randall to bring a disciplinary case against Lane, a failure described by a leading lawyer as “plainly wrong“.
Church attendance has plummeted under Welby’s tenure as he was unable to reverse the long term decline and Covid dealt a hammer blow to Anglican churchgoing. Since 2013, usual Sunday attendance fell from 788,000 to just 557,000, with a particularly steep drop since 2020.
Conservatives will not miss Welby and many had long wished to see the back of him. However, it was when liberals and senior clergy joined in the resignation calls that it became clear he could not cling on.
All eyes will be on who will succeed him. With a liberal currently as Archbishop of York, the Church of England and global Anglican Communion will need an orthodox cleric in Canterbury to have any chance of holding the show together. However, the usual pattern is for a liberal to succeed the ‘conservative’ (such was his background) Justin Welby. Perhaps York’s Stephen Cottrell will move to Canterbury and an evangelical be put in York – though that would be scarcely less divisive as Cottrell is not an acceptable figure to conservatives.
In the meantime, the key post of Canterbury will be vacant, just as the Church prepares next year to bring in services that closely resemble same-sex weddings, a development that is threatening to split the Church.
It’s not a happy time for the Established Church.
Stop Press: Gareth Roberts thinks he knows who will be on the shortlist to replace Welby.
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We already know Truss isn’t very bright, but this gives the impression of outright delusion. Does she really still think the Russians are going to be sufficiently bothered by these self-harming sanctions by the US and its satellite states to sacrifice all their efforts so far in the Ukraine and go back to the situation that forced them into resorting to the use of force?
Presumably just another case of believing her own side’s propaganda.
Presumably just another case of believing her own side’s propaganda.
This is why I don’t like banning of alternative viewpoints, if all any politician and also the public hears is its own sides propaganda, then this will lead to catastrophic outcomes as has seen throughout history.
Well in fairness, having access to alternative points of view is of no help if one refuses to consider them for essentially sentimental reasons.
As is happening Russia, you mean.
It has now been see here with exactly the same outrageous censorship leading to the injecting of our children with a Pharma ‘experiment’.
How have we allowed this to happen?
Considering she doesnt even know where the boundaries of the Ukraine and Russia are she wont know anyway who has withdrawn from where to where.
‘If those naughty Ruskies don’t stop fighting I’m going to cut myself again.’
So there! Just you watch me. I mean it.
(FFS).
Hmm, I rather doubt that Truss has any beliefs except in her own importance and career!
You’re probably right. But having ministers with or without beliefs in the moral sense is rather a second order problem next to having so many ministers and media etc elite figures who seemingly either have delusional ideas about basic world reality or are totally and all-encompassingly dishonest.
Both misplaced!
She is a disgrace ro Public Office – incompetent and unfit for the post.
This is the level of sheer delusion or dishonesty of the war promoters on the conservative side (liberal interventionists have their own characteristic kinds of bleatings) – in this case Dan Hannan and our own host Toby Young.
Hannan tweeted the following, today:
Daniel Hannan
@DanielJHannan
In December 1941, 15,000 Jews from Kharkhiv were murdered at Drobytsky Yar by the Nazis. It was minus 15 degrees centigrade, and children were thrown alive into the pits to freeze, so as to save bullets. Now, Russian troops have wrecked the memorial. So much for de-nazification.
https://twitter.com/DanielJHannan/status/1507820074593304585
Whatever Hannan is, he isn’t stupid. He knows full well that if this memorial was damaged by the Russians (who knows?), it’s just the collateral damage of war. It’s ridiculous to suppose that the Russians would intentionally target this memorial. What possible motivation could they have for doing so?
But that’s clearly the impression Hannan tried to give, and Young retweeted it as though it were something somehow significant, rather than the black propaganda smear it actually is.
These people are so captive to their fantasy Cold War falsehoods about Russia that they think anything that promotes hostility to Russia is justified, no matter how cynically misleading.
Not sure weather it’s hypocracy or selective virtue signalling, but they fail to mention the +300k Polish ethnicly clensed from what is now Western Ukraine by the Ukranian Banderites, before the Geman Nazis even arrived, most of those didn’t even get a memorial, the current administration won’t allow archeology to find the mass graves so they can build one either.
Homework for Toby:
Zmarłych pogrzebać – film dokumentalny o Zbrodni Wołyńskiej (English subtitles)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVVRccerdW0
Young’s and Hannan’s posturing on this is particularly sick given the forces unleashed by US interference in the Ukraine.
They’ve tried to use nazi/ultranationalist ideology in the Ukraine much as jihadist ideology was used in Afghanistan against the Soviets. If they succeed (which fortunately I think it’s currently looking as though they won’t, but it’s a long way from a sure thing) then we will face the blowback again.
In truth, we’ll no doubt face some blowback from flooding the region with modern weapons and training anyway, even if the Russians succeed in cleansing the Ukraine.
And when I say nazi, I’m quite careful with that much abused term. Not all Ukrainian ultranationalsts even are actual nazis, or “neo-nazis”. But some are, and they have huge influence in that country, as we all seem to be aware apart from Young and most of the rest of the management here.
“”Like actual neo-nazis, not like CBC’s neo-nazis where everybody who doesn’t agree with Justin Trudeau is a neo-nazi”
Ukraine: On patrol with the far-right National Militia – BBC Newsnight
The BBC from 2018. before they switched priority to their current anti-Russian war agenda. These are the “heroes” grimly holding onto the last bits of Mariupol against Russian and DPR forces today (most likely against the wishes of most of the inhabitants, who are essentially hostages to prevent the Russian and DPR forces using heavy firepower). It was these same thugs who were sent in to support the oligarch thugs to reoccupy the city for the Ukrainian regime back in 2014.
Maybe painting “anti-vaxers” and “lockdown protestors” as “far right” was positioning the narrative in anticipation of the new boogiman de jure
The woke globalists have made no attempt to hide their intentions in that regard. The “far right” smear and the linking of it to “security” threats, for anyone even vaguely conservative or traditionalist is far wider than just the campaign to regime change Russia, and linking other dissenters to that already demonised strand was a no brainer for them.
The repeated and absurd use of the term “far right”, with regard to those showing determined opposition to lockdowns and “vaccine” mandates, has been very effective in triggering the reptilian brains of a good many who identify as “leftist” or “progressive”.
Soros prattles on about ‘saving’ democracy by deposing Putin.
The Devil himself quotes “scripture”!
Didn’t we hear that the memorial is actually still standing, that it wasn’t destroyed at all?
Wouldn’t be in the least surprised. but it would only add to the point I was making, of course.
Hannan used to be worth listening to….sadly no longer
.Our whole political, Legal and Media class have sold us out big time!
It created an environment which led to the biggest assault on freedom of speech and democracy I’ve known in my lifetime” – Watch Ex-Sky and ITV News Executive Mark Sharman on GB News on Ofcom’s warning to “not question the official Government line”.
its no good having laws, liberties, freedom of speech and press freedom only in the good times if it does not hold up in times of state overreach, and to make matters worse most of the public seemed fine with the state doing what it wanted for at least just over a year before we had the london protests. Unfortunately now people are going to find out that giving away power to the state only leads to trouble.
Well said.
Especially in the case of an openly criminal state, authoritative elements of which ‘nudged’ and psychologically manipulated its citizens and knowingly advanced destructive, murderous policies.
It has to be said – we are in open war with the Deep State.
Thank you for saying it! ( You will be “ghosted” next time if Dorries gets her way)
Another long interview with Scott Ritter that is packed with anecdotes from his insider experience as a US intelligence operative and UN inspector. Excellent info imo about the real conspiracies that make things happen in the world.
Well worth watching in full, even if one isn’t entirely a Ritter fan.
The battle for Ukraine, with ex-UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter
Raab: Bill of Rights would give free speech a legal trump card
“Mr Raab told the Daily Mail he feared “free speech and democratic debate” were being “whittled away” by “wokery and political correctness”.
He said: “The thrust is going to be making sure that when we balance rights, whether it’s the right to free speech and the right to privacy or other rights, we make sure that the greatest overriding importance and weight is attached to free speech.
“Effectively, free speech will be given what will amount to ‘trump card’ status in a whole range of areas.””
Now this is an area, unlike foreign policy on which he’s a child, basically, on which I would be genuinely interested to hear from Toby Young.
I don’t trust Raab an inch after his shameful involvement in the covid abominations, and when I looked at the indications of how the proposals to “reform” the Human Rights Act were shaping up a few weeks back I did not see any hugely encouraging signs about free speech. So if that has changed I’d hope to hear about it from Young and the FSU, where he has real expertise.
don’t believe the state has any commitment to free speech, as seen with the harms bill which the state would quite like to lock anyone up if someone says they felt “harmed” etc, and is being seen right now as police go round to people’s houses if they say 2 genders etc as well as the level of suppression of doctors over the last two yrs.
I agree, that’s why I’m interested to see if this report is any indication of any change for the better.
Like you, I strongly doubt it.
Once our lovely PM signs our healthcare over to the WHO, then these Bills will be doing the intended job of banning any dissent against the nation turning into the CCP….
Yes, they will ….But, Hey! Everyone! Quick look over there!!…..Ukraine!
I’ve sent info from the World Council for Health on the WHO takeover to Toby, Will et al but I guess that they’re not interested in putting it in the Round-up….
WIll the Bill of Rights “Trump” the Harms Bill? Doubtful, given the government has decided decisions will be subcontracted to big tech and the “Fact Checking” industry.
Johnson has offered a contest prize to Dorry and Raaab for the most Rights Damaging Act !
Raab’s face signals his deep shame for the rold he is playing!
With those words by Liz Truss, the British Foreign Office is in part making its traditional error of assuming that elite foreign johnnies crave acceptance from British poshoes. But not all do.
Perhaps they should watch this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTusD9eO_4k
Or this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQUiYm6iK7c
Or this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r29k_T_o9To
I’m sure they’ve all heard the story that Nikita Khrushchev said that if he were an Englishman he’d be a Conservative; they might like to consider what Mr “We will bury you” meant by that.
Unlike Britain, Russia didn’t rely on foreign countries’ assistance to put it on the winning side in WW2.
PS Interestingly this group, Otava Yo (Отава Ё) made this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JQ0xnJyb0A
and also this version of a Makhnovist folk song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7TxSDRqdC4
(That’s St Petersburg, which is where they are from.)
One of the comments to another version of that Makhnovist “Little Apple” song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIa57c0IRQ8
reads
Nestor Makhno statue in Hulyaipole:
I enjoyed opening those links. Thinking “Oh, yes” again and again as the titles appeared. You have fine taste.
Truss is drowning in deep muddy waters – well over her head.
I was idly looking through the Yellow Card reports – which are a triumph of propaganda and misdirection rather than a dispassionate statement of fact.
The conclusions caught my eye. They wanted to indicate that it was still justifiable to have the vaccine, but the wording is curious.
They state that the vaccine is justified by ‘its expected benefits’. Now that is odd. Its ‘expected’ benefit was that it would stop you getting Covid. If it did, that would be a good reason to take the vaccine. But it famously DOESN’T stop you getting the illness, nor does it stop you passing it on.
What the Yellow Card site now says is technically true. The ‘expected’ benefit of the vaccine IS a justification for taking it. They just ignore the fact that the ‘expected’ benefit has been shown not to be true.
So long as they can present all their policies as having ‘expected’ beneficial effects, there is no way to argue against them….
Par the for course, Democracy has “Expected Benefits” too, they don’t mention the bunch of UN treaties they signed up for that bypass all “democracy” to control every aspect of domestic legislation.
How can you argue with serial liars?
What a dreadful piece in the DT about ‘anti-vaxxers’ moving to awake places. Full of ‘conspiracy theorists’, ‘anti-vaxxers’ etc etc, the usual derision poured on people who are unhappy about the way the West is moving (including describing Mike Yeadon as ‘riding a wave of martyrdom’), I had to give up reading it. I’d love to see the comments BTL if they’re allowed but unfortunately can’t see them as it’s behind a paywall.
Don’t worry, you’re not missing anything; the Torygraph is not allowing comments on that article – for the very good reason that they know exactly what they would get, and it wouldn’t support their narrative. They also don’t allow comments on any article with ‘Prince’ Harry in it, but that is probably for legal reasons.
Ah yes, one of the two Royals-formerly-known-as-Prince!
DT = average quality fire-lighting/cat tray material!
It certainly seemed to make anyone wanting to move to a sunny climate where they weren’t being bullied by their own government seem like they were off to drink the Kool aid. I would absolutely love to know what the words in between the carefully cherry picked quotes were. Not sure I want to live in a commune though, however sunny. I guess it depends on how controlling our leaders become.
A gated community in “paradise” sounds like a very pretty gaol cell. It mite sound better than a wet n windy open prison, but I’m not sure it’s the answer. I mite be tempted if I was a lot younger tho.
Indeed. Where is this place?
Northamptonshire?
The DT is now a disgusting rag, taking money from Gates – even the Mail has more objcetive truth.
It created an environment which led to the biggest assault on freedom of speech and democracy I’ve known in my lifetime” – ‘The biggest crime was the Silence’ said Vera Sharav, our own politicians and MSM have all been silenced except for the official narrative.
“But I think you have to look beyond OFCOM and beyond this country, this was a worldwide ‘lockstep’ occurrance, in parallel with the media you had Big Tech, new media who were censoring everything…” CUT
So Ex-Sky & ITV News Executive Mark Sharman thinks it’s controlled globally then…another ‘conspiracy
theorycoincidence’ almost goes mainstreamRussian pranksters release YouTube clip of moment they duped Priti Patel: Home Secretary is filmed in 15-minute call with duo posing as Ukraine’s PM Denys Shmyhal
Funny that this latest in the series of UK regime embarrassments doesn’t seem to have been mentioned in the Round Ups here. Yet more evidence of the moron surplus in our political elite seems relevant to scepticism generally.
“It is the latest attempt by the Kremlin to spread its propaganda through the hoaxers after they called Ben Wallace pretending to be Mr Shmyhal last week.
Security experts slammed YouTube for allowing the duo to post the disinformation on its website for Western audiences.”
Oh, it’s “disinformation” is it? Well, it seems clear evidence of the incompetence of Patel and our government generally, at least, just based on the fact that it took place.
If the established liars in our government are going to claim that it was “doctored” to make her look even more stupid than we already know she is, well I’ll believe that when they provide meaningful evidence of it and release their own version.
So much for the geneva convention, this is sickening, Ukranians shooting POWs in the legs as they arrive at the detension center (GRAPHIC WARNING NSFW)
https://southfront.org/shocking-evidence-of-ukrainian-regimes-essence-video-21/
And we’re sending them weapons?
Well….the Russians did alert us that there were Azov Brigade Nazis in Ukraine and 14,000 Donbass civilians had been killed by their shelling since 2014.
But then the UK ‘Deep State’ has been secretly ‘at War” with Russia since 2014.
Just been reading the DT article on places to escape to. It sounds as if it’s trying to be balanced to begin with, then the author just can’t help allowing emotive words to creep in – such as ”pernicious” when describing Mike Yeadon. Then it becomes clear where the author is coming from and how clumsy he is while trying to be ‘cleverly’ manipulative. About as subtle as a sledgehammer.
It’s all interesting – but these hacks really should learn to disguise their real feelings – or at least be more artful when trying to coerce us.
Now the full video of the prank call is out, it looks like Ben Wallace did indeed give out information sensitive to National Security. Remember he doesn’t know this is a prank, he thinks he’s talking to the Ukranian PM, it seems there is a plan to keep poking the bear.
Full Video by Vovan and Lexus Pranking UK Secretary of State for Defence Ben Wallace Giving Strategic Information (screenshot from UK Column analisys)
https://odysee.com/@RaymondTheBrave:5/Full-Video-by-Vovan-and-Lexus-with-UK-Secretary-of-State-for-Defence-Ben-Wallace:a
And yet he is still in Office! Unbelievable!
( But then this is the Johnson Regime of Jokers!)
The biggest assault on freedom of speech and democracy I’ve known in my lifetime” is on-going ……but look!
Quick! Over there! “Ukraine”!