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Martin Vander Weyer: The Reverend is just a funny sideshow — here's who to blame for the Co-op mess

Plus: Thriving northern companies that disprove the 'north-south divide'; one night with bankers at Imelda's palace for the Pope

23 November 2013

9:00 AM

23 November 2013

9:00 AM

The naughty Reverend Flowers will be a comic footnote in the history of the financial crisis — but no more than that. In terms of making ministry relevant to modern congregations, you’ve got to take your hat off to a man of the cloth who knows his ‘Charlie’ from his ‘ket’ (for the uninitiated that’s a horse tranquilliser) and likes to unwind after a tough select committee hearing with a ‘two-day, drug-fuelled gay orgy’.

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