In the polls, over 80% support the right to die and have done for the last 25 years. Even 80% of practising Catholics and Protestants support it, plus 76% of Church Times readers.

But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.

How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?

Islam, Christianity and Judaism all define themselves through disgust of women's bodies.

This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition.

In the polls, over 80% support the right to die and have done for the last 25 years. Even 80% of practising Catholics and Protestants support it, plus 76% of Church Times readers.

So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growing older make most prisoners eventually give up crime.