But there's one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever the murderers may be trying to achieve, creating a better world certainly isn't one of their goals. Instead they are out to murder innocent people.

Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.

Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.

Raif Badawi's is an important voice for all of us to hear.

It seems to me it's perfectly possible to vehemently disagree with a piece of work and to say that it's offensive and insulting and so on and so on. And you're absolutely entitled to do that and to speak back, if you like, against that piece of speech with all the vehemence at your disposal. I mean, that's legitimate. Even other things. People have a right to demonstrate.

I'm definitely post-something.

Good advice is rarer than rubies.