Good morning everyone!

"The world shall soon dissolve like snow,
The sun refuse to shine;
But God, who called me here below,
Shall be forever mine."

A mantra for a Muslim suicide bomber about to set off on his deadly mission?

No: this is a verse from 'Amazing Grace'. It is typical of hymns, sung every morning in schools across the country. They are, almost without exception, filled with violent imagery, tales of death and destruction, struggle and victory over ones' enemies.

By law, every school is required to perform an act of 'Collective worship' every morning, for every pupil (except those specifically excluded). Not just faith schools, as people might assume: all schools. And not an act of moral teaching, of citizenship or cultural knowledge - but of worship. That perhaps the majority interpret the law as the former rather than the latter doesn't help. It's a license for the Church to get involved, a demand for the supernatural, the religious, the irrational. Every morning, for every child, in the social institution we trust to transfer real knowledge.

Full lyrics to Amazing Grace.

Where's my third of a Mars bar?

"Migrationwatch, which campaigns against mass immigration, said the gain to the native population would allow each person to buy just a third of a Mars bar a month."

I want my not-even-half-a-Mars bar! I must write to the Home Office to inform them of my address for delivery forthwith!?

Or is this one of the UK's most fervent anti-immigration groups admitting that immigrants make a net contribution to our economy, quite aside from the other benefits they bring?

Whoever thought of the Mars bar comparison is a genius. Beats the old 'buses' or 'football pitches' analogies any day. I recommend that from this day forward our GDP be measured in Mars bar-potential!

'4p a week' benefits of immigration