Online following: @satan love thy neighbour

Jesus was born to tweet, or so it seems. He was after all something of a dab hand at pithy aphorisms. But just what would he tweet? Jesus: @thepeacemakers bless you! If you can think of any better ones, put them on twitter with #historytweets — we’ll give a free subscription to Prospect for the most original. Can’t say fairer than that.

But would you follow Jesus on Twitter? It seems you would according to our new Twitter poll of 2000+ people in the UK (carried out by YouGov). Jesus wasn’t, however, the most popular—we are, it seems, a far more nationalistic bunch than that: if British people could follow any figure from history on Twitter, they picked a national hero with a talent for speeches considerably longer than 140 characters—Sir Winston Churchill. How might that go? winston_c @adolf_h We will fight you on