IT WAS ON CHRISTMAS EVE that I realised I’d been subjected to a social media drive-by shooting. That pinnacle of modern ecclesiastical power, the president of Humanists UK, Professor Alice Roberts had deduced from the headline of an interview I gave to the Telegraph that I was emblematic of Christians “who think that non-Christians are incapable of tackling moral questions”.
My delight at being emblematic of anything died quickly as a Twitter pile-on began, of people who, I suppose by definition, had nothing better to