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It is April Fools’ Day, but I wonder if anyone can tell? There are so many fools about, and so many foolish opinions expressed, I wonder if we should dedicate 364 days to the Fool and reserve just one for the Wise.

Here is some April Foolery to whet your appetites before you watch the day’s news or speak to an average Briton:

"There is no God"

Celia Walden wrote an article in the Daily Telegraph this month about the former Archbishop of Canterbury who recently claimed that he has been seeing both a psychotherapist and a psychiatrist. She asks:

I have just read Andrew Thomson’s nineteenth century biography of Thomas Boston (1676-1732), the Scottish Presbyterian minister of Simprin and later on, and more famously, Ettrick. Biographies of fellow ministers, even famous and highly regarded ones, offer instruction and comfort even to those inhabiting the vineyard’s distant corners. He writes: