Last week we reported Germaine Greer’s criticism of singer Elton John and his partner David Furnish for allowing Fur­nish’s name to be listed on their children’s birth certificate as their “mother”. Now we hear the convent-educated author of feminist classic The Female Eunuch was billeted in a house with Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor during the Hay festival, where her comments were made. Greer and the cardinal, there to publicise his memoirs, breakfaste