Liberalism is a two-faced creed. It can mean that you believe in individual freedom and abhor every variety of prejudice, including the prejudice that allows men to shoot journalists dead for producing a magazine they disapprove of.  Or it can mean that you go to such lengths to take account of your enemy’s opinions you become indistinguishable from him.

The clash between secularists and cultural relativists is forcing feminists to take sides — at the risk of accusations of Islamophobia

IS is just the latest in a long line of Islamist terror groups to attack France. But a study of military history shows how it can be destroyed

My country has been let down by its leaders. The French problem is intractable, but the fightback must begin with enforcing the rule of law