The Orthodoxies celebrate it as the day of John the Baptist, when believers bathe in rivers and lakes.

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Those, such as Mr Woodhead, who call for Plowden-era orthodoxies to be abandoned, are not short of critics.

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Mainstream orthodoxies, harmless ideas, and inoffensive platitudes require no protection as they are not, by definition, vulnerable to censorship.

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In Egypt, Lebanon, Kuwait and elsewhere, litigants have tried to enforce traditional orthodoxies by appealing to literal readings of Islam.

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As chief minister of West Bengal, he realised that economic liberalisation and the rise of China were making old orthodoxies redundant.

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Also, saddened by exile, they favour the certainties that orthodoxies provide rather than trying to understand how a western democracy works.

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FIESP, the Sao Paulo industrialists' federation, who dislike Mr Malan's orthodoxies and would prefer devaluation, lower interest rates and higher tariffs.

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Even in that non-conformist brotherhood Monk was unique, making harmonic contributions to the new music but never subscribing to its developing orthodoxies.

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President Bush and Secretary Rumsfeld directed a reexamination of US forward deployments that is free of old orthodoxies and takes the long view.

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Yet Mr Obama's careful reiteration of American orthodoxies regarding Israel has helped secure him not only overwhelming support among American Jews, but also improved his ratings in the Jewish state.

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