O Come All Ye Vaccinated
by Peter Mullen, TCW:
BEHOLD, I show you a mystery: many are called, but only those with a Vaccinated Passport are chosen – that is if you want to attend the Advent Carol Service at Durham Cathedral.
Contrary to guidance from both the government and the high counsels of the Church of England, the Dean of Durham, the Very Reverend Andrew Tremlett, has made these passports mandatory ‘in order to keep everyone safe’.
Certainly the Dean is a very singular person. He is the son of an archdeacon and following his ordination he served only one curacy. Most of us served at least two in this humble station, which amounts to being the vicar’s bagman. From there he moved serenely through the ranks, from one coveted post to the next: Vicar of St Margaret’s Westminster and a cathedral canon.
Perhaps Dean Tremlett will have some comprehension of the hurt feelings of those who will inevitably be turned away from the Advent and Christmas services in his cathedral. For he himself was despised and rejected – by former Commons Speaker John Bercow, no less. You see, for the last 40 years the Vicar of St Margaret’s has been appointed Chaplain to the Speaker. But that exemplary equality and diversity monger Bercow was having none of that foul elitism and he rejected Tremlett as ‘another white, middle-aged man’, appointing a black woman instead.
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