VERSION|0.5.1|SUBJECT|Bloodcurdlingly Reverend James Jones, Lord Bishop of Liverpool and Bishop of Prisons  |CONTENT|[b]Rating[/b] 4 out of 5 (Highly platitudinous)

[url=http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap130617.html][img=images/2013/06/pic130617.jpg popup=false float=right][/url]And the big news today is that I'm going to [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-21227001]retire when I reach 65[/url].

Liverpool has been a great place to be bishop of. Everything is always so much worse in Liverpool than everywhere else. As I sit in the Bishop's Palace, I often think of all the poor people in the city. I tell this to many of the rich people in the city and they frequently tell me they're going to do something about it.

It seems like only yesterday that I tried to promote a vision of Liverpool as a renewed, vibrant, wealthy city, but I soon settled in to the traditional pattern of saying how Liverpool suffers from such terrible poverty, much worse than everywhere else.

You see, Liverpool is like a man with a disease: it suffers from a bald patch. The heart and major organs are in reasonable shape, but the roots on the hair of the head never seem to share in the wealth of the rest of the body.

This is something that somebody should do something about. It's an injustice, it is. There should be more peace and justice in the world with more people enjoying more justice and peace. As the G8 meet to discuss the world's problems, it would be to their great credit if they were to desire more justice, more peace and more justice.

And that is the end of my last Thought For The Day as Bishop of Liverpool.

Thank you.

(Round of applause from a tear filled and grateful audience.)

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