Bah, Humbug!

I am getting increasingly irritated about the so-called "War on Christmas". Luckily, the sainted Oliver Burkeman is on hand to dispense a dash of cold water against the fevered brows of zealots.

 

I am reminded about a conversation I had recently with a friend in London. The children (6 year-old twins) of an ex-lover of his, Mohammed, treat my friend as their favourite uncle. They have been excitedly telling him about their forthcoming roles in the school’s nativity play. These are children of Muslim parents being educated in a mixed school where they acknowledge Ramadan, Diwali, and Christmas. That sort of education is to me much more preferable than what I see as the growing cancer of “Faith-based” schools, which seem to divide communities rather than integrate them.