First to give Barry Morgan some credit, he appears to understand that Jer. 17:9 applies to everyone, rich and poor alike, which is in itself something of a breakthrough for an archbishop.

ARCHBISHOP of Wales Barry Morgan yesterday warned that the British elite must put their own house in order as the country reels from the riots that shattered neighbourhoods across England last week.

Speaking shortly after Prime David Cameron condemned the UK’s “slow-motion moral collapse”, the Welsh Anglican leader warned that “desperate” young people had been set a poor example and Britain’s boardrooms needed a “clean sweep”.

Dr Morgan lambasted the “greed and selfishness” which existed at the top of society.

Unfortunately, Barry Morgan’s remedy for the fact that all men are sinners is for the successful sinners to work harder at being less successfully sinful , thereby presenting less of a temptation to covet to those of us not occupying boardrooms.

The irony here is that the real solution is right under the nose of the poor befuddled archbishop: yes, that’s right! His own church has the answer: Jesus took the sins of the poor and the rich upon himself. Too simple for the archbishop, I suppose. Still, maybe it will eventually come to him as he lounges in his bishop’s palace sipping sherry.