My local supermarket had signs up advertising the date of Easter throughout Lent, as it did for Halloween on stacks of pumpkins last autumn. But The Daily Telegraph reported a perhaps, um, confected row about Easter eggs. Consumers had criticised Cadbury on Twitter for leaving the word Easter off Easter eggs. “There’s no policy to remove ‘Easter’,” came a reply from the company. “It’s still mentioned on the back.” A priest from Nottinghamshire tweeted: “Easter on the back? Jolly decent of you.”

At Easter, newspapers often reach for a bishop to say something. George Carey, “a former Archbishop of Canterbury”, told the readers of The Sunday Telegraph that non-Muslims must encourage “a moderate reforming and secularising Islam”. Secularising? A funny function for a religion The Fleet Street tendency is to use establishment names, lest papers seem sectarian. Cardinal Vincent Nichols did get a look-in, though, as the first of 21 “prominent Christians” (along with the ex-chaplain to the England cricket team, the emeritus vicar of St George’s, Baghdad, and someone else who was billed in error as the emeritus vicar of St George’s, Baghdad, but was in fact the former secretary general of the Methodist Church) in an Easter round-up on pages 88 and 89 of The Times on Holy Saturday.