AN WILSON: Right-on CofE bishops have vowed to give £100m in reparations for historic links to the slave trade. Now they're facing the great anti-woke revolt in the pews

But 81 per cent of Anglicans polled said Church money should be used to support local parishes rather than atone for 300-year-old sins. This brings me to the story of St Mary’s Somers Town. St Mary’s Somers Town was consecrated 200 years ago, in March 1826. There have been many celebrations in Somers Town to mark the role the church and housing association have played in this gritty, crime-ridden part of London. The community of Somers Town rose up.