Monday, 12 April 2010  Dawkins and the Pope  I was a bit
suspicious when I read yesterday the Sunday Times headline
"Dawkins: I will arrest Pope". True, the professor's
pronouncements concerning His Heiliness have been somewhat
theatrical of late - "a leering old villain in a frock", for
example. But after telling us that Dawkins was planning "a legal
ambush" during the Pope's visit to Britain, the article went on
to describe the idea as a joint venture by the professor and
Christopher Hitchens, backed up by two lawyers - and I couldn't
help thinking it seemed much more like Hitch's style. Also, one
of the lawyers mentioned, the human rights barrister Geoffrey
Robertson QC, had already had an article in the Guardian (on
Good Friday, deliberately or otherwise) setting out the case he
intended to put before the courts. So I guessed one or other of
them must have had the brainwave, with Dawkins lending his name
as additional weight.  Almost. It turns out the idea was,
indeed, Hitchens'. Here's Dawkins' version o