Britain has a somewhat confused attitude to religion. We take a dim view of religion’s overall contribution to the world but on balance we’d like a bit more of it in British public life. I suppose that many of us are thinking of militant Islam and wars in the Middle East when we think of the big, geopolitical picture. When we think of Britain we have an honest-to-goodness Anglicanism in mind and the hope it might provide a kinder, more ethical public life. Fifty-five per cent of us think Britain is a Christian country, and very slightly more – 58 per cent – want it to be.