British traditions such as Christmas are “at risk”, according to Dame Louise Casey, the Government’s “integration tsar”. That’s the person who’s supposed to make us all get along better together (though whether the autocratic title of “tsar” is the right word here must be questionable).

Dame Louise, who has done splendid care work in housing with Shelter and with support for troubled families, has claimed that too much political correctness might easily erase Christmas and other similar traditions from our national life.