Catholics, Muslims and Jews feel a conflicting range of emotions in relation to their place in British society, according to speakers at a seminar held as part of the events to mark The Tablet’s 175th anniversary. There is a sense of assimilation, loss and suspicion Ruth Gilbert, the writer and academic, smiled and said, “A Catholic, a Muslim and a Jew … I thought perhaps I had been invited to play a part in a joke.”Interfaith encounters can sometimes be guarded, solemn affairs, but jollied along by the ebullient Conor Gearty, director of the Institute of Public Affairs and professor of human-rights law at the London School of Economics (LSE), the panel discussion on “Are Catholics, Muslims and Jews still outsiders in British society?” proved to be on