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Amid the US presidential election campaign, God is just where he was in the First World War when the unpopular but all too eloquent journalist John C Squire imagined the British and German peoples seeking the Good Lord’s help:

“Gott strafe England” and “God save the King!

God this, God that, and God the other thing –