The Guardian devoted an editorial in praise of his holy endorsement of the Occupy London Stock Exchange movement, describing him as a "fiercely bright, progressive and genial man" who prefers jeans and a T-shirt to a dog-collar, and enjoys curry, football, smoking and the odd glass of wine.

Fraser has just written an introduction to a Church-sponsored report on finance and ethics, published by the St Paul's Institute, a think-tank which he heads. He is in huge demand for speaking engagements, and continues to be heard on BBC Radio — indeed, he was back on Thought for the Day the week after his resignation.

Listeners to the Today programme's reliably infuriating religion slot will recognise the former canon's thoughtful and articulate estuary English. Like most of the new establishment, however, Fraser emerged from the old one. 

The son of an RAF officer (he himself considered becoming an army chaplain), he was educated at Uppingham and became a lecturer in philosophy at Wadham College, Oxford, specialising in Friedrich Nietzsche. (What Nietzsche would have thought of the Occupy rabble we can only imagine.) He has compiled an anthology on Jesus with the Marxist professor Terry Eagleton, in which Christ is presented "as a figure akin to revolutionaries like Robespierre, Marx and Che Guevara".