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

Crime is only the worst example, but it is a paradigm for other Labour policy disasters. No one tells the voters that crime is falling: let them stay scared senseless.

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

People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.

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.

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

But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.