It was the 1980s, the Cold War was at its height, the Russians were the enemy, and even today Nick cannot talk about the work he did during his four years at Government Communication Headquarters, except to say that it involved his skills as a Russian linguist.
Move forward three decades and that very same Nick Baines is now in a different job. He is in fact the Right Reverend Nicholas Baines, who this week has been announced as the new Bishop of Leeds and put in charge of the newest and biggest diocese in the whole of England. You have to admit, it’s quite the change.
As to how it happened, well that’s a big question.
Bishop Nick, as he is now known, was an active church member but it was his experience of GCHQ that made him question the world more deeply.
Read it all.
Move forward three decades and that very same Nick Baines is now in a different job. He is in fact the Right Reverend Nicholas Baines, who this week has been announced as the new Bishop of Leeds and put in charge of the newest and biggest diocese in the whole of England. You have to admit, it’s quite the change.
As to how it happened, well that’s a big question.
Bishop Nick, as he is now known, was an active church member but it was his experience of GCHQ that made him question the world more deeply.
Read it all.
