There was a ceremony to install the new Presbyterian Moderator in Northern Ireland yesterday, and guess who turned up to protest? Ian “Bigot” Paisley and his cronies. They were “denouncing ecumenism”, protesting the fact that the head of the Catholic Church in Ireland was invited to the ceremony.

Simon Cumbers gets an obituary on the BBC website following his tragic death in Saudi Arabia at the weekend. Another sad chapter in Saudi’s ongoing problem with attacks against westerners. His colleague Frank Gardner is critically ill in hospital.