Just as the NUT campaigns against faith schools and a Government adviser is arrested over the honours for City Academy sponsors scandal, Polly Toynbee writes “If ever there was a time to set out the unequivocal value of a secular state, it must be now.”

Link: Guardian Unlimited | Columnists | This is a clash of civilisations – between reason and superstition

Meanwhile, back in cloud cuckoo land, Peter Franklin’s Guardian comment is all about “secular supremacists” and education. Feel free to let him know the folly of his argument.