"The president-elect deserves the benefit of the doubt"

"Like the moon, every religion has a dark and a light side. The most enduring perversions of faith always claim scriptural authority"

"We are all living with the consequences of the great American abdication of the last decade."

"In her first two months on the bridge, Theresa May has skilfully steered the ship of state away from hazardous Continental rocks and into the open sea"