The Daily Telegraph’s Charles Moore hopes hope Mr Cameron will think more deeply about how the Christian heritage he holds dear is under attack. Until quite recently, Christians in Britain could assume the goodwill, if not the active belief, of the powerful in society. That assumption can no longer be made. Our beliefs are under attack from influential and militant atheists on the one hand and Muslim extremists on the other. To defend them, we have to work out much more carefully what they actually are.

The Independent’s Grace Dent thinks Cameron’s party policy on feeding people and his belief in the teachings of Jesus are utterly at odds. Perhaps the PM should volunteer for a week at a food bank, feeding the poor in a Christian manner, to shed some light on the dilemma? As an agnostic, she almost prays for a Second Coming of Christ, just to see Cameron have to face him and squirm.

The Daily Mail’s Stephen Glover asks: How can men of science solemnly declare that Christians are now in a minority in this country when by far the most authoritative recent survey indicates that they remain, by a significant margin, in the majority? The only explanation he can think of is that some at least of the signatories are zealots who, despite their scientific training, can be far more emotional and extreme in their thinking than the religious believers whom they hold in contempt.

In The Times Francis Elliott argues that Lynton Crosby will argue that it is possible to have Gospel Dave and Retail George. But which should you put on the campaigning leaflet cover?

In The Daily Express Ross Clark says we can argue about the extent of the continuing influence of Christianity in modern life and to what extent to which Britain is still a religious country. But atheists might be a little more convincing if they were prepared to write their own letters to a paper. As a contribution to the debate on religion and national life David Cameron’s article was considerably more interesting than the round robin it inspired.

The FT’s Janan Ganesh says Labour’s really big judgment – on fiscal policy – was made more than four years ago. Politically, it is no longer a going concern. The cost of living might be. If Mr Miliband gives up on it, he has nothing left to say.

The Daily Telegraph’s Benedict Brogan thinks it may be simply that we are too preoccupied by the global race to notice that our politics are increasingly imported too, and that we are led by politicians who have become so beholden to the mechanics of politics – the polls, the media management, the focus groups – that they no longer have confidence in their own beliefs and must look abroad for their vision and their credibility.

In The Daily Telegraph Paul Sykes views Ukip’s new advertising campaign – which he is funding to the tune of £1.5 million – as more of an essential public awareness campaign. Yes, it is hard-hitting, in order to capture attention. But its real purpose is to show the British people just how many of their democratic rights and powers successive governments have quietly smuggled away to Brussels. The time has come to take back control of our country and the right to govern ourselves.

In The Guardian Nick Clegg, the deputy PM, thinks that of all Nigel Farage’s far-fetched claims – and there are many – the most outlandish is the idea that Ukip’s call for an exit is the insurgents’ battle cry. European withdrawal is presented as a great revolutionary promise, held in stark contrast to the status quo upheld by a homogeneous political elite. What poppycock.

In The Times Douglas Murray, associate director of the Henry Jackson Society, believes that if the political class don’t like the Ukip posters then there is a way to deal with them. It is not to critique them but to address the facts they speak to.

The Guardian says garden cities were a radical idea for providing low-cost housing, and paying for the welfare of the inhabitants. So, when ministers gargle with such a term, they raise expectations that they could have similarly radical schemes in mind. Maybe, even now, the Treasury is actually sweating over imaginative ways of using rising land values to pay for services and amenities. It would be a remarkable approach, if so. We can only hope we won’t be disappointed.

The FT thinks that the surest way to restore trust in the EU is to keep the message simple. Politicians on the stump should tell voters in plain language about the EU’s past achievements and the good work it does today. It is, in the end, the spirit as much as the pocket book of Europe that needs enriching.

The Daily Mail argues that the current 40p rate is a tax on self-reliance and a disincentive to work harder, earn more, and get on in life. Promising to increase the threshold to £50,000 after the next election would not just be morally right – for the Tories, it might just be the key to electoral success.

In The Daily Telegraph Allan Massie says that to enable young people to savour the romance of history and acquire an understanding of its course is also the most rewarding. Of course the good history teacher will encourage his pupils to read widely, and part of the teacher’s skill is to direct that reading. Read until you hear the dead talking is the necessary and best advice.

The Independent’s Steve Richards can see many virtues in offering a referendum on a tax rise to pay for improvements to the NHS and elderly care. Given that there can be no reasoned debate in an election campaign, and no government in this era of neurotic mistrust will have the authority to increase taxes without a mandate, why not offer a referendum on the issue?

In The Daily Express Vanessa Feltz says that sometimes the best investment is not surgery but psychotherapy. Examining why some people embrace their cellulite, size 22 figures or wonky ears while others are flattened by their (often imagined) flaws is an exercise well worth undertaking. A life lived believing you’ll never measure up is a life of doubt, recrimination and wretchedness. Therapy may take longer than surgery but it could pay immeasurably rich dividends.

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