That Citroen felt the need to tart the car up for the British market tells you a great deal about its perception of our tastes – in France, where the more basic Berlingo Combi, as it’s known, is closer to the 2CV in spirit, it sells like hot brioche.On the plus side, the Multispace is roomy, and the sunroof is “fun” (though it billows like a sail when closed and can create an eardrum-bashing air- pressure effect if you open it with the windows wound up).But, as with many products that attempt to serve two purposes, the Berlingo Multispace doesn’t excel at either (a shampoo and conditioner in one? No thanks). The Family predicts the Antichrist will rule the earth before 2000 via a worldwide computer credit system which will brand people’s foreheads with the number 666. So start growing your fringe now.Far more placid are the Amish-style Bruderhofs (5), the inspiration for the recent BBC drama Heaven on Earth. You will find these followers of His Divine Grace AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada lingering around the Letchmore Heath mansion that George Harrison donated to the movement in 1973, when entirely sound in mind and body, oh yes.Slightly further north, in a manor house in Dunton Bassett, Leicestershire, you’ll find The Family (4) (better known as The Children of God), followers of the late David Berg, whose apocalyptic interpretation of the Bible promoted the practise of “flirty fishing” – female members recruiting as “hookers for Jesus”. L Ron Hubbard, founder of the “science” of Dianetics – or Scientology (2) – once lived there in Saint Hill Manor, now the European base of his movement, and a place of pilgrimage in recent years for Isaac Hayes, John Travolta and Tom Cruise (could Geri Halliwell, spotted recently at their LA HQ, be next?).
Usually, cult followers walk among us without so much as a glassy stare to distinguish them, but you don’t need to be Fox Mulder to spot the Hare Krishnas (3), who with their shaven heads and coloured robes stand out in any crowd.

If you do a chart, there are 500 different influences all warring away and it depends on the character of the astrologer to make sense of it.You can, if you are of a certain temperament, lose your grip on reality. Otherwise-rational people can go bananas under the effect of magic prognosis, searching for the eternal self. The end result, taken to extremes, is cults and cult people who all rush out and commit suicide.Let us regard it as entertainment, not as truth, and not enlightenment.”Interviews by Veronica Groocock. Tolerant Britain has long been a haven for a diverse range of cults, many of them benign, and their followers. And they turn up in the most unlikely places, not just on Kilroy

Take East Grinstead. Over the years, the sleepy home of Martines’ Nite club has proved irresistible to a rum bunch including tree huggers, Mormons (1) and the Masonic-style Rosicrucians. I know of two kittens born within two minutes of each other that have completely different temperaments.I was casting horoscopes when I was 11.

My mother, and my grandfather, would cast horoscopes in the Twenties, when all this was very fashionable In my family, it was just considered something you could do But you didn’t believe in them It was party trick time … but if strangers do it for strangers, it can be dangerous in the wrong hands.I wouldn’t go so far as to say that there’s nothing in it, simply that it’s not something that is either going to solve your personal problems, solve the problems of the universe, or add to your income. Therefore, let it be an entertainment, occasionally instructive, but don’t rely on it or take it as gospel. Also, the fact is that even if you get two different astrologers explaining the same chart, they’re going to say totally different things because it is a matter of interpretation … People become more gullible and believe in portents and omens and soothsayers as these three noughts approach …

It’s made me think fairly broadly about the causes and consequences of my actions.”The anti-astrologist”It is a kind of Millennium fever from which there’s almost no escape, so you read your horoscope while knowing it’s not true I feel it is a millennial thing. You think how odd it is that twins can have such totally different temperaments. And if ordinary fraternal twins are born within 20 minutes of each other, they’re completely different. One useful idea which astrology has picked up from spirituality is the idea of the mythical journey – that we’re all involved in a journey, on a quest, and that’s something I personally find very useful, because then I can look at my life and at what I’ve done so far. It’s the same with astrology.Astrology works as a mode of enquiry. It enables people to link different areas which are not normally connected and come up with some sort of conclusion It suggests the existence of larger patterns. Astrology is one of those disciplines or approaches to life which is not amenable to analysis by science.