Church Throws Wobbler

The UK's Christmas stamps have become the latest bone of religious contention. The Church of England complains that this year's issue of festive stamps lacks a Christian theme. What's wrong with Santa, for Goodness' sake? He's Christmasy. So's Rudolf the red-nosed reindeer. Perhaps these killjoys need to be reminded that Christians hijacked the Roman festival of Bacchus: the God of Wine. Why else would the populous celebrate Christmas by getting blotto? Royal Mail is too polite to tell the Church where to get off. It merely states that year by year it alternates its Christmas designs between the religious and the secular. I can't recall this argument over festive stamp art cropping up before. Christians in the UK are becoming increasingly stroppy, due to the unwarranted attention Government pays to Muslim demands. But it isn't just Christianity versus Islam. Last week saw a huge number of complaints about a London council's abandoning its traditional fireworks display in favour of some Bengali folk story about a tiger. Brits are feeling increasingly besieged by foreign cultures, and it's all the fault of our Labour Government. I mean, did we really need 600,000 unemployed Poles sleeping on our pavements? Of course Coxsoft Art stays aloof from politics. It's the art that counts. Happy bacchanalia.