Fake news has been around as long as news has been around.

The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable.

A lot of people go straight from denial to despair without pausing in the middle and doing something about it.

I remain optimistic that ultimately free speech and a free press where individuals have access to the dialogue will have a self-correcting quality.

Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.

How could this Y2K be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?

The golden thread of reason that used to be stretched taut to mark the boundary between the known and the unknown is now routinely disrespected.