* Here in England everybody has gone 'to wear a veil' or 'not to wear a veil' mad (the mental health of the English is in serious doubt). This was followed up with 'to wear a cross to work' or 'not to wear a cross to work' idiocy.

* The English have no innate religious inclinations so why veils and crosses should entrance the media is totally baffling. The only worry anybody has, as my brother pointed out, is whether they are sat next to an unexploded terrorist or not. If someone wants their partner (of either sex of course) to wear a bag over their head who cares, as long as they are both consenting adults.

* The other big wheeze of the weekend was to make faith schools (whatever that's supposed to mean) take 25% non-faith pupils. This wasn't much clarified, do they mean 25% agnostics and atheists or anyone who holds a contrary view. What steps will be taken to ensure that the applicants genuinely hold an alternative position was not detailed.

* The church of England needless to say have no problem with this. The church of England was described by one commentator as 'so much milksop and water as to neither affect a man's politics or pastimes'. Such a broad church that they have atheists amongst their ordained ministers.

* Still the church of England was founded by Henry VIII. When the church first started (as it is related in the Gospels) Christ said of Saint Peter 'on this rock I will found my Church. Presumably when Henry VIII created the church of England the Almighty said 'On this murderous, adulterous, thieving, syphilitic I will build a new church' ?