In this guest post, Simon Hunter, of 3 Stone Chambers considers church ownership, trustees, and church membership 

“You cannot be serious”, John McEnroe, Wimbledon, 1981

I’m not a particular fan of tennis.  I don’t really know why, perhaps John Betjeman’s poem about Ms Joan Hunter-Dunn had something to do with it.  But like it or not, one would have had to have been living under a cultural rock for more than 40 years to not know the most famous outburst perhaps in all sport.  I think there was some controversy about chalk dust, but as I say, I’m not really a tennis fan.  Since McEnroe’s cri de coeur a whole industry has grown up to check line calls, off-sides, l.b.w.s (now there’s a sport I can get behind). Continue reading →