The holiday season is now well under way, and where people go for their holidays tells us rather a lot about them.
Our new Prime Minister, Mrs May, is off hiking in the Swiss Alps, something she has done for thirty years. This is important. By going off to the Alps Mrs May is doing what she has always done, not adopting some sort of new pose to grab our attention and get over a subliminal message. But even so, the message is there.
First of all, this choice of holiday is Biblically inspired, as you would expect of a vicar’s daughter. Isaiah 40:9 counsels us to get ourselves up a high mountain – it has been beautifully put to music in Handel’s Messiah.
