Have just watched Newsnight discussing the resignation of the Dean of St Paul's cathedral.
And despite all the tittering and high-camp reporting (across the media, not least from Channel 4 News earlier) it occured to me that the Dean has been much more subtle and clever than people are giving him credit for.
It is not those who can inflict the most, but those who can suffer the most that will endure.
Giles Fraser, using his resignation as a weapon, placed the cathedral Chapter "in the wrong" in the eyes of the media. The Dean has now neutralised that resignation through his own departure. The cathedral has, in my view, regained moral authority (which Giles Fraser should never have tried to take away).
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