On London Extra: Christian capital

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Among the many misleading stories told about London by people who dislike it and what they claim it represents is the one about it not being Christian "anymore" and therefore not properly British "anymore" like in the good old days when a man like "good old" Nigel Farage could park his jag outside Selfridges any day of the week (except Sundays, of course) and was allowed to buy as many Easter eggs as he liked without being arrested for crimes against multiculturalism by Sir Mark Rowley's "woke" Metropolitan Police and so on and on and on until GB News has an ad break.

Meanwhile, the true story of Christianity in London is that there is lots of it about and it is lively.

The last Census found that a smaller percentage of Londoners described themselves as Christian than was the case for England and Wales as a whole, but not a lot smaller - 41 per cent compared with 46 - and also that it was the most common religious affiliation in the capital. Londoners' next most frequent answer to the Census question about religion was that they didn't have one (27 per cent). Then came Islam (15 per cent) and Hinduism (five percent) followed in smaller single figures by Judaism, Sikhism and Buddhism.