Britain is no longer a Christian country, says a new enquiry into the place of religion in society, according to a report in the Daily Telegraph. So, why not tell us something we don’t already know? What is not clear to me is who exactly has commissioned the Commission on Religion and Belief in Public Life that has produced the report. Equally mysterious is the question why they bothered, and what they were hoping to achieve. They make various recommendations, but it is hard to see how these can be enforced, or who is proposing to enforce them. The Commission has a website here. The Telegraph tells us that quite a few people are furious with the report’s conclusions. These include Government ministers, important members of the Church of England, and even Keith Porteous Wood, the well-known secularist, who thinks it does not go far enough. The report does not seem to have heard evidence from Catholics, apart from the diocese of Leeds and a solitary Justice and Peace group in Stafford, according to the appendix to the 100 pages plus report, accessible here. What annoys me, is this sentence from the Telegraph report: "The report, by the Commission on Religion and Belief in Public Life, claims that faith schools are 'socially divisive' and says that the selection of children on the basis of their beliefs should be phased out." The report indeed has this to say: