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The King Herod inside the Prime Minister

Ok, it’s about time (about 2,000 years too late some would say) as we enter perhaps the second most hallowed month in the Christian calendar that we sorted this out once and for all.

And seeing as no-one with a half-formed sense of rationality or reason seems prepared to do so this column will gamely pick up the gauntlet and run with it.

“One mustn’t criticise people for their beliefs” is the constant refrain, even as they do exactly that.

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