er... religion talks sense!

[jumpy]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/n...re/4459252.stm

Good sense from a foreigner and a religious person... why does it take somebody like this to point out what should be obvious, I wonder?

"Because the Empire is gone, there is almost a sense in which there is not a big idea that drives this nation," he went on.


"What is it to be English? It is a very serious question. When you ask a lot of people in this country they are very vague.

"Multiculturalism has seemed to imply, wrongly for me, 'Let other cultures be allowed to express themselves but do not let the majority culture at all tell us its glories, its struggles, its joys, its pains'"