When I first arrived in England, it felt like stepping through a looking glass into another world. From the moment I landed at Heathrow Airport, I was struck not just by the efficiency, but by a quiet, almost invisible symphony of order. Systems worked. People moved with intention. Courtesy was not a performance — it was a cultural norm. In shops, in government offices, in everyday conversations, one sees it: respect for time, for rules, for each other. Here, human dignity is not a slogan — it is embedded in the infrastructure of life. There is a collective commitment to fairness, transparency and accountability.

It is tempting to think you have found paradise — or at least the closest thing to it in the modern world. But scratch the surface, and you encounter a silent ache. A kind of spiritual amnesia. In this well-oiled machine of a society, God seems to have been gently edged out of public life. Religion, if practised at all, is often privatised, hidden........

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