Alan Johnson has dropped plans to make Roman Catholic schools take a quarter of their intake from the hell-bound. Johnson disingenuously claims that after getting the Catholic hierarchy to make the change “voluntarily” he no longer needed to use legislation. By “voluntary” Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor means after hell freezes over.

Only nine days until the country celebrates with fireworks an attempt by a Catholic freedom fighter to destroy anti-Catholic politicians. Guido will be toasting this victory over the Godless socialists this afternoon – “Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam”.