Contrary to the declaration in the Daily Mail that the Archbishop of Canterbury had 'misjudged the political mood' in his trenchant call to the powerful and privileged in his Jubilee congregation to stand up against the 'ludicrous financial greed, environmental recklessness, collective fear of strangers and collective contempt for the unsuccessful and marginal', that message has proved to be prophetic.

Even as the Archbishop was delivering his sermon, the modern day morality tale of the nexus between the powerful and the powerless was...