The Daily Telegraph opines that the decision of the Very Rev Alec Knight, Dean of Lincoln Cathedral, to allow filming of The Da Vinci Code in the cathedral is an exceedingly short-sighted and foolish one. Here's the DT editorial of last Saturday, 20 August, and here's my post of last Tuesday, 16 August, in which I express a similar view. Charles Moore, the editorialist, says it far more eloquently than I, of course. A small sample:

The not Very Reverend Alec Knight thus calculates that filming "a load of old tosh" on his premises is a price worth paying for £100,000 for the fabric. But is it? That old tosh states that Dr Knight's fellow clergy throughout history have propagated a lie which the novel calls "the greatest story ever sold". So millions and millions – far more than will ever visit Lincoln – will now watch this tosh that undermines Christianity, with the cathedral making it all look pretty in the background. The film will be trying to tear down all that fabric of faith which is "not built with hands."

Exactly so.