If poor old Tony really believes that "never have we been so...

If poor old Tony really believes that "never have we been so materially rich, yet rarely more culturally and spiritually bereft", perhaps he would be happier in that bastion of traditional Christianity and conservative social values, Russia. I'm sure he and old Vlad have a lot in common and they'd get on like a house on fire. On second thoughts there's no way Putin would want anything to do with a monk so mad.