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Has David Cameron at last discovered his inner Conservative? First he electrified everyone by defying the EU over his defence of Britain’s financial services sector against the threat of crippling regulation.

Nick Clegg balks at the traditional family. He thinks it’s an outdated model and that the Tories, in introducing a marriage tax break next year, are trying to preserve “in aspic” a concept we’ve outgrown. Does the Deputy Prime Minister, as he sits in judgment, have any idea of how much children yearn for precisely this antiquated ideal? Can he see, when he drops off his sons at the school gates, the longing look that the children of single mothers, or divorced parents, cast in his direction? A dad! Father Christmas showing up on a sleigh couldn’t be more exotic.

David Cameron has argued that the UK is a Christian country and that a revival of traditional Christian values is required to halt Britain's 'slow-motion moral collapse'. The context of this remark was partly the summer riots, but also the expenses scandal; the banking collapse, inequality and the bonus culture; and even the threat of Islamic terrorism.

(CNN) - Christians are by far the largest religious group on the planet, and the religion has gone truly global over the past century, according to a new report out Monday, which finds some of the world's biggest Christian communities in surprising places.