Burning topics this week. Celebrants of Guy Fawkes Night being not unduly scrupulous about performing their rituals on the precise day (last Thursday), whizzes and bangs will doubtless continue all weekend and beyond. But we shouldn’t be doing it at all, Leo Winkley, the headmaster of St Peter’s School in York, of which Guy Fawkes was an old boy, told The Sunday Telegraph. “Burning a Guy is likely to be seen as an expression of religious intolerance at worst or more likely, an inexplicable historical throwback,” he said. “Consider this: how would we explain it to a seven-year-old? If we’re not comfortable explaining it, we shouldn’t do it.” Perhaps not, though I don’t remember as a seven-year-old minding a Guy being burnt. It&rsqu