I didn’t expect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran, to remind me of those Bible prophecy pundits in his Channel 4 Christmas Day broadcast. But amid Ahmadinejad’s phoney what-would-Jesus-do pieties – stand up against the stoning of women to death for adultery, no, Mahmoud? – there was an unexpected snippet: support for the anticipation, much more widespread in the United States than here, of the second coming.
