Welby: Church Safeguarding’s Greek Gift

BY ANDREW TETTENBORN Nemesis overtook the Archbishop of Canterbury this week. He resigned on Tuesday, following overwhelming calls for him to go following the publication of the Makin Review, a report commissioned by the church over his conduct of the John Smyth abuse affair. But there is an irony here. There is a strong argument that this wasn’t really the slam-dunk resignation matter everyone made … Continue reading Welby: Church Safeguarding’s Greek Gift

On Dartmoor Wild Camping

BY ANDREW TETTENBORN   Monday’s judgment of the Court of Appeal in the Dartmoor wild camping case, which went against the landowners, will form a small footnote in the law books (“The word ‘recreation’ can include camping”) and be pasted in large letters on the trophy wall of such organisations as Ramblers UK and the Open Spaces Society. But it is rather more important than … Continue reading On Dartmoor Wild Camping