After eight years in government, Mr Blair has precious little to show for his ambitious plans to heal the divisions in society.

Since science is essentially objective, involving the study of how things actually are, "materialism" would therefore seem to be its antithesis, since its starting point is the desire to impose upon the natural world a particular and limited way of looking at it.

No one has a human right to hide from justice behind a veil.

After eight years in government, Mr Blair has precious little to show for his ambitious plans to heal the divisions in society.

Climate ... models bear about as much relation to reality as astrology.

The Palestinians are a despotic, undemocratic grouping which promotes a religious war against Israel, a democracy, through terror.

For neo-conservatism is a quintessentially Jewish project: a re-sanctification in everyday life of the core values of western civilisation, and the achievement of human potential through virtuous practice. The neo-cons' crucial insight is that public signals through law, custom and tradition are the key to getting people to behave well. And that is a Jewish insight.