The chief responsibility of the leader of the Anglican Communion is not to be the last leader of the Anglican Communion, a burden that has weighed heavily on the shoulders of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, for several agonising years. By intervening in the deliberations of the bishops of the Episcopal Church of the United States in New Orleans, he raised the stakes as high as they could go, for had ...

The spectacle of queues forming outside banks with crowds desperate to withdraw their savings is one that is perhaps more redolent of Latin America than northern Europe. Yet the scenes witnessed at branches of Northern Rock might not simply concern one former building society turned bank but may prove to be the beginning of a wider crisis of confidence in the banking system itself. If so, then all of the guarantees ...

Pius Ncube has been Robert Mugabe's most outspoken critic, condemning the injustices of the regime that has brought Zimbabwe to its knees and its people to the brink of starvation. Now he has stepped down as Archbishop of Bulawayo, two months after allegations emerged of an affair with a church employee whose husband has brought a case against him. By the time he resigned the scandal had already damaged Archbishop ...