People should not expect the state to protect them from fraudsters. If we do, we get into the habit of neglecting our own powers of intellectual discernment.

Being a good neighbour is about compassion, which is as warm-blooded as justice is cool-headed.

If you believe you are right, then you should believe that you can make the case that you're right. This requires you to deal with serious objections properly.

Yesterday's news feeds our fear that our neighbours are more likely than not to be bad eggs: benefit fraudsters, bogus asylum seekers, paedophiles or jihadist terrorists.

Trying to keep up with health advice can feel like surfing the Net for weather forecasts: what you find is always changing, often contradictory and rarely encouraging.

Seek first what is true and of value, and then whatever happiness follows will be of the appropriate quantity and, more importantly, quality.

If we now find ourselves looking down on the cheap and convenient, it is only because we now have better things which are affordable.