The results of the recent UK census make dismal reading for all Christians in this country. Not only has the number of people identifying themselves as Christian markedly declined over the last 10 years, so has the number of people getting married. Christianity is probably not on the point of extinction in this country – but if it were, this is what its terminal decline would look like. So there is no reason at all to be cheerful. The decline in marriage is particularly worrying: what would a country where marriage ceased to exist look like? The Guardian, predictably, sounds cheerful about this increase in diversity, given, partly, one suspects, because "diversity" is, in our contemporary Newspeak, synonymous with all that is good and true. But its editorial has this to say: