The splendid Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, took out a pair of scissors on live TV this morning and cut up his clerical collar. The archbishop said that this was in protest against the brutal regime of Robert Mugabe in Zibabwe. It looks like that the good archbishop is going to collar-less for a while, as he declared, " As far as I'm concerned, from now on I'm not going to wear a dog collar until Mugabe is gone."
It made for a great TV moment and is sure to raise the profile of the Church of England's opposition to Mugabe's treatment of his people in the national and international press.
It won't be long before I'm invited to cut up my own dog collar in response to some issue, I guess. Any suggestions?
