This was a huge relief to those of us in the UK who have watched the sheer silliness of political correctness go higher and higher. One local council -- Warrington, I believe -- has replaced its usual 'Happy Christmas' message this year with 'Recycle for Warrington', which is hardly a cheering message even though recycling is of course a good idea.

It would be nice to think that the worm was starting to turn. The reality is that it isn't the Muslims or the Hindus who are 'offended' at Christians doing Christian celebrations. It is the old-fashioned secularists who, discovering that their myth (that Christianity would die out by the end of the 20th Century) had failed to come true, have gone in for that tried and tested formula, 'cognitive dissonance'.