Sometimes the clergy can still do the right thing. Rowan Williams has not made any friends with the Conservatives today but hopefully he opened a few eyes.
The comments come in an editorial he has written as guest editor of this week's New Statesman magazine. Full extracts are not available , but Williams says the "anxiety and anger" felt by voters is a result of the coalition's failure to expose its policies to "proper public argument".
He writes: "Government badly needs to hear just how much plain fear there is around such questions at present."
Williams accepts that the government's big society agenda is not a "cynical walking-away from the problem". But he warns there is confusion about how voluntary organisations will "pick up the responsibilities shed by government", and says that the big society is seen with "widespread suspicion".
