Extract
The recent Easter weekend coincided with the intensification of campaigning for the upcoming general elections.
The double advantage of a large audience and the ennoblement of the speakers with the blessings of a higher authority created a magnet for politicians to harangue congregations across the country.
There were no reports of any of the political preachers offering what I judge to be the singular biblical verse that sums up the parlous and penurious state of our national coffers and our dismal growth prospects.