The importance of language and how it is used was food for thought given by Bradford’s Bishop to university students.

The Rt Rev Nick Baines was addressing students at Huddersfield University with a lecture entitled The Moderation Of Rhetoric.

He said people needed to pay attention to how language is used in everyday discourse “in a complicated globalised world." And he warned the problems come “when we mishear, misunderstand or bring to our dialectic assumptions that are not shared.”

He added: “Language shapes behaviour and shapes the lens through which different people see differently the different worlds within which we live."