"According to Wikipedia Justin Welby has a degree in History and Law"

Well I have a degree in Botany and a PGCE. The one difference between me and Welby that qualifies him to be a lord but not me is that he's an archbishop and I'm not. His academic credentials are not why he's there. They just happen to come with his baggage.

We all harbour delusions, some more serious than others (being a supporter of The Owls, for example). But men of the cloth have an extra delusion, and it's quite a serious one because they fashion careers for themselves out of it, instead of keeping it to themselves, which is the only respectable behaviour possible for believers. I'd have thought that we should be vetting people for their delusions before letting them be lords. He shouldn't really be making the cut in my view.