"is the borrowed capital of a world view based on the classical God of western theism.

"Our human rights commissars may fancy themselves gods of a sort, but their time is short. Events, I suspect, will pass them by. But these may well be events in which we lose more than our freedom of speech.

"You can't expect the culture that we have to simply evolve slowly and in a natural sort of way when you change quite radically the world view and the underlying assumptions."