We have progressed but have we lost some wisdom?

Famous skirmishes have included the wearing or not of religious symbols, Winterville versus Christmas, Shari’a Law versus British Law, and a monarch-in-waiting wanting to swear in as Defender of faith, rather than THE faith.

Front-line correspondents earnestly report casualty figures. No fatalities as yet, thank God, but the injured are said to include ‘those from other cultures’, though oddly-bemused leaders of other cultures put on smiley-faces for TV cameras and deny any injury.

It slowly dawns that the injured are actually a dishonest group from our own culture who enlist imagined hurts to manipulate the death of our Christian heritage and so replace it with their own liberal, anything-goes multiculturalism.

They do this despite the injustice of changing our culture for the sake of a small minority; despite 90-odd per cent British people rather liking their own traditions and courts, and understandably getting intensely irritated over the vast majority having to bend before tiny minorities.

Liberal, secular humanists in Britain should educate themselves in fairness. Lesson No. 1: using political correctness to force a popular overwhelming culture to bow out and change is fraught with dangers.

Cancelling Christmas, banning Nativity plays and religious seasonal cards is not exactly a recipe for peaceful co-existence.

Once, we were divided on political or class lines. Today politics is in the dirty-word bin and old class lines blur with higher education and standards for all.

We have progressed, but have we lost some wisdom along the way?