Governor of the Bank of England spotted on the Tube biting his fingernails and reading about “Mammon”

Alex Clifford over on Twitter has spotted the Governor of the Bank of England on the tube biting his fingernails and reading about “Mammon”.

@Elenaatt caught this tweet and reposted, “Just the Governor of the Bank of England reading about overturning the world’s corrupt worship and love of money”

Let’s look in on that book shall we?

And what is that exactly:

In his first full-length book Justin Welby looks at the subject of money and materialism. Designed for study in the weeks of Lent leading up to Easter, Dethroning Mammon reflects on the impact of our own attitudes, and of the pressures that surround us, on how we handle the power of money, called Mammon in this book. Who will be on the throne of our lives? Who will direct our actions and attitudes? Is it Jesus Christ, who brings truth, hope and freedom? Or is it Mammon, so attractive, so clear, but leading us into paths that tangle, trip and deceive?

Archbishop Justin explores the tensions that arise in a society dominated by Mammon’s modern aliases, economics and finance, and by the pressures of our culture to conform to Mammon’s expectations. Following the Gospels towards Easter, this book asks the reader what it means to dethrone Mammon in the values and priorities of our civilisation and in our own existence. In Dethroning Mammon, Archbishop Justin encourages us to use Lent as a time of learning to trust in the abundance and grace of God.

And as Josh Zumbrun, Wall Street Journal economics correspondent says, “So what do we think? Carney reading about Mammon. Sell the pound on this?”

Maybe. Also invest in nail scissors.

UPDDATE: A previous version of this article said he was picking his nose and but he’s actually biting his nails. This isn’t because we’re “clickbaiting twats” but coz we didn’t look carefully enough. Sorry bogey fans. You’ll have to get your snot news elsewhere.

Source: Twitter/@elenaatt