Because I love this land so much, I want to share it with other people who live here, people who come here. That’s what real patriotism is

Luke Larner, Priest-in-Charge of St Andrew’s, Luton, TUC video, 14 May

And to the people that are trying to sow disunity, hatred, the people trying to divide our communities . . . I would say “Don’t you dare do that in the name of my faith.” Unity works

ibid.

No one seemed very Christian there, and many were confused: they wanted to hear about rape and murder and migrants, not God

Cosmo Adair, report on the “Unite the Kingdom” march, UnHerd, 17 May

The country is entirely governable if people get off their phones. . . We have a pornography epidemic, we have a malicious gossip epidemic, and we have the cultivation of resentment as a tool of politics, and I’ve had enough of it, frankly

Will Self, author, Sunday with Laura Kuennssberg, BBC1, 17 May

Importantly, the process of reading was, for the medievals, not some kind of fact-acquisition. Wisdom, for them, was not seen to be in a set of ideas. It was in our encounter with words, with friends, and with God

Elise Morrison, the Telegraph, 14 May

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