Speaking to the BBC’s Newsnight, Dr Rowan Williams raised concerns about the gap between rich and poor and the lack of cultural cohesion in the UK….
“There have been moments in the last decade and more when, perhaps, we might have been able to take a different line,” he said.
He was referring to the way the British think and feel as a society and told Newsnight’s Stephen Smith that British society had “put up the shutters” and retreated into “corporate paranoia” in the wake of terrorist threats.
To quote that eminent philospher Bugs Bunny, “what a maroon.”
I listened to the video, and most of what is quoted here isn’t covered. I tried to access the AoC website for a transcript, which they usually provide, but it seems to be temporarily unavailable.
However, he doesn’t say anything about retreating into corporate paranoia in this excerpt; for all I know that’s some spin the BBC put on his remarks.