The British media’s trouble with religion

Alan Wilson writing in The Guardian: “[T]he fact that a whole range of religious leaders representing every major tradition in the UK feel chronically misunderstood must mean something . . . But it’s almost impossible for central figures in the media establishment to take such phenomena seriously, perhaps because when they were at public school many of them had religion all sewn up around about the fourth year. The kind of people they dine with just don’t do that sort of thing. It’s obvious that sneering is a suitable substitute for analysis. That’s all there is to it.”