The sight of police closing down a church service is one of the worst moments of this national panic.
I am more and more sure that this country is suffering a revolution in which much that we used to know and believe is being quietly, insistently destroyed.
But Scotland Yard’s raid on the Church of Christ the King in Balham, South London, was especially distressing, not least because most of the congregation there are Polish, from a country where the Christian religion was only recently freed from state harassment.
