Hume is never far from Meades’ lips when he is discussing religion, the subject that, more than any other, seems to incite his anger. “I’m hostile,” he tells me when I ask why this should be so. “I’m not particularly angry. Well, no. It does anger me. What angers me is the special pleading, and this idea that there can be no morality without religion, which I think is absolute balls. Complete balls. I think it’s the other way round. I can’t see that religion does anyone any good whatsoever. I am hostile to it, though I don’t like the preachiness of a lot of anti-religious stuff. Dawkins has become just like a vicar.” (Jonathan Meades, author and presenter of Bunkers, Brutalism and Bloodymindedness: Concrete Poetry and author of An Encyclopaedia of Myself)