Polite society during my parents’ lifetime deemed that nice people did not discuss politics or religion when guests were present.
“How stuffy!” we thought, when we were coming of age in the 1960s. “Religion and politics are just about two of the most interesting topics there are! And if it makes people clash around the dinner-table – so much the sparkier!”
But now, it seems, etiquette has dictated a return to those protocols of bygone years: Tatler, the society magazine, has decreed that conversation about religion should be banned at dinner parties.
