Islam, Christianity and Judaism all define themselves through disgust of women's bodies.

Islam, Christianity and Judaism all define themselves through disgust of women's bodies.

This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition.

The pens sharpen – Islamophobia! No such thing. Primitive Middle Eastern religions, and most others, are much the same – Islam, Christianity and Judaism all define themselves through disgust for women's bodies.

But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.

People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.

It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.