But, even if no one could talk to a journalist like that today, the prize is still worth awarding, and this year’s winner is the next Archbishop of Canterbury, whoever that turns out to be. If the predecessor was plodding and managerial, the new man is wonderful because he writes poetry and is, well, profound; in ten years’ time, the next new man is wonderful because he is businesslike, plain-spoken, and has no time for poetic obfuscation. In this, the enemies that the Archbishop has by then made within the Church, for reasons understood as theological, will form an alliance with the external enemies, and feed an endless series of damaging snippets of gossip, in which the Archbishop must hope to be portrayed as a hapless incompetent, but will probably be shown up as a scheming malevolent.