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Welcome to the Opinion podcast from The Times. I'm Philip Webster, assistant

editor politics at the Times and editor of the Red Box email bulletin and website. I'm standing in for Tim Montgomery who's traveling in the studio today.

I'm pleased to say we have three gleaming stars from the Times Fur moment.

Patrick Kidd, the diary editor,

the most informed and wittyest diary editor

since the last one.

Anne Ashworth, who runs our bricks and mortar

and money sections and Danny Finkelstein, star commentator,

Doyern of all commentators.

20 years after allowing women to be priests, the stained glass ceiling preventing them becoming Anglican bishops has been shattered.

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