As war battered the Middle East and a constitutional crisis in the form of Scottish independence loomed in the United Kingdom, the attention of the nation, or nations, was gripped for a week by the tale of Ashya King, aged five. The boy’s parents had taken him from hospital in Southampton, where he was being treated for brain cancer, and driven to Spain, where they were pursued by a European arrest warrant and imprisoned for two nights before being allowed to take their son for proton beam therapy in the Czech Republic.In almost every report, it was mentioned that Ashya King’s parents were Jehovah’s Witnesses. What relevance did that have? Apparently none. “There is no suggestion,” wrote Melissa Kite in the Daily Mail, “that their beliefs got in the way