Decalogue

In Competition 2515 you were invited to supply Ten Commandments for a belief system, real or invented, of your choice.
As traditional authority figures and sources of identity crumble round our ears, people (who, when it comes down to it, quite like to be told what to do) are casting around for new rule books. Take, for example, Pastafarianism, or the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, which was drawn to my attention by Brian Murdoch. Founded in the US by physics graduate Bobby Henderson in protest at the teaching of Intelligent Design in schools (religion masquerading as science, as Henderson saw it), it has eight ‘I’d really rather you didn’ts’, known as the Loose Canon. Or maybe one of this week’s winning entries ‘speaks to you’. Their authors get £25 each, and the bonus fiver goes to G.M. Davis.

Middle England
1. Thou shalt worship the Market and read the Daily Mail, which is the Revealed Truth thereof.