Do you celebrate Winterval rather than Christmas, or choose cards with “Season’s Greetings” rather than anything that might offend non-Christians? What is your take on primary schools that have abandoned the traditional nativity play for a celebration of different faiths? If, like most people, your regard such things as examples of political correctness, it seems Trevor Phillips is your man. In a speech tomorrow the head of the government’s Equality and Human Rights Commission will attack “ludicrous” and “daft” moves to down-play Christmas’s religious significance for fear of offending those from other religions.

Mr Phillips came to prominence as head of the Commission for Racial Equality by attacking the multiculturalism that he and it had previously espoused strongly. His forthcoming comments will be in a similar vein. “The logic is baffling: to welcome Eid and Diwali and Hanukkah in celebration of our glorious diversity, whilst brushing Christmas under the carpet as an embarrassing episode in our mono-cultural past,” he is expected to say. He is, of course, right. A poll by the think tank Theos revealed an alarming lack of knowledge among people of even the bare outlines of the Christmas story. If we continue in this vein, future generations will have no idea what the “Christ” in Christmas means.

Some will say, before jumping too enthusiastically on his bandwagon, that it is a bit rich for Mr Phillips to be launching this attack. Fear of getting on the wrong side of human rights laws and incurring the wrath of those such as his super quango, has led firms and organisations to “abandon” Christmas. As with his earlier attack on multiculturalism, Mr Phillips is saying the right thing, the question is whether that message is reflected throughout his organisation as it promotes a nation “confident in its diversity”. Now he has attacked this “daft” form of political correctness, we look forward to him tackling some of the more subtle forms of political correctness that have changed for the worse the way we live.