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He has spent three years defending his country from invasion, while also trying to hold together a society and its political leadership that Putin has tried to drive apart.

Small acts of kindness do more to hold together a society than passports and border checks.

Other nations will go on to help Ukraine in its fight, but without America’s military and economic power, this coalition will struggle to hold together against Russia’s might.

Mr Welby has undoubtedly seen it as a big part of his job to hold together very different factions within the Church of England and, even more difficult, in the wider global Church, the Anglican Communion of 85 million people.

“It’s like a military campaign to write the songs to get them in shape to figure out how you want the whole thing to hold together,” Doe says.