I think there's an awful lot of noise about the Church being persecuted but there is a more real issue that the conventional churches face - that the people who are really driving their revival and success believe in an old-time religion which, in my view, is incompatible with a modern, multi-ethnic, multicultural society.

I ask questions, and a large part of my life has been spent asking questions of Ken Livingstone.

There's no question that there is more anti-religion noise in Britain.

Prison service vans that travel 90 miles to take a prisoner 90 yards; paedophiles free to leer at children in the very parks where they have committed horrific crimes.

It's perfectly fair that you can't be a Roman Catholic priest unless you're a man. It seems right that the reach of anti-discriminatory law should stop at the door of the church or mosque.

You can't say 'because we decide we're different then we need a different set of laws.

Human rights are not worthy of the name if they do not protect the people we don't like as well as those we do.