“Edoardo Albert, son of Italian and Sri Lankan migrants, criss-crossed London for years to repair TVs. He relates the city’s spiritual history: Christianity arriving from Italy, through King Alfred and the mediaeval church, taking in atheism and theosophy, up to Hillsong and the present. He relates his own spiritual history too, from Catholicism, through atheism, the occult and Islam, then back again. Both are intriguing. He reaches an important conclusion: ‘London, seemingly without anyone noticing, has become over the last twenty years the most religious part of Britain churches are opening up all over the place.’ And I think he’s right.”

– RT HON STEPHEN TIMMS, MP FOR EAST HAM