Channel 4 is to show a programme in which two illusionist attempt to “reproduce” the miracles of Jesus. Nope, I’m not going to dignify it with a hyperlink.

C4 calls it “an alternate take on Christmas”. I’d call it an act of easy cowardice, calculated to offend. Don’t hold your breath for that “alternate take on Ramadan”, will you?

I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised. This, from a channel which has already exposed a group of people to weeks of prime time humiliation by claiming to train them for a space mission - without any apparent thought for its psychological, emotional and moral implications.