The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end.

One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives.

There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.

Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability.

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

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?