Footnote to Cross Saga

On Friday the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams took time off from making a fool of himself in the Vatican to join the Nadia's cross uproar. He issued a thinly veiled threat to sell the £6.6 millions worth of shares the Church Commissioners hold in British Airways on behalf of the Church of England. What a gaff to reveal this shameful investment! The airline industry is one of the worst pollutors of the environment in the UK. The threat of airport expansions blights homes. The noise under flightpaths blights lives. Jet streams across London's crowded sky have become so intertwined that a major disaster looks inevitable. No institution with any pretence to moral leadership should invest in this harmful industry. C of E, why not become a socially responsible investor and follow the Vatican's past example of investing in contraception?