Instead of feasting in the Saint’s honour, a formal Eid dinner will take its place at Oxford University’s Magdalen College.

Not only is the old order being beaten with its own stick, but crushed with it entirely, stamping over socially conservative, Christian foundations with theirs.

The mainline denominations have a habit of assuming that people would magically become Christians just because their parents were; and I think a good amount of the secularisation of the country has come about because of mainline complacency.

One of the most devastating privations since the advent of the coronavirus pandemic has been the closure of churches and the suspension of public liturgies right across Britain.