If the Archbishop of Canterbury did...

If the Archbishop of Canterbury did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. Not, I hasten to add, for any spiritual or equal ecclesiastical reason; spiritually he is as necessary to the propagation of the Christian faith as tiaras are to whales; ecclesiastically, he presides throughout an often ribald institution in terminal decline. on the other hand for comic relief, for the unerring instinct the office-holder, whoever he may be, possesse for making an ass of himself, for clownish transfers on a tatterdemalion set, for jamming the cross-gartered base down his own throat--all this is very strange to behold. In this regard ...