‘Why can’t we alter the conversation on art from “But is it art?” to “Is it any good?”’

‘There is only one thing the Leveson inquiry needs to discover: how did the law come to be broken repeatedly and publicly, with impunity?’

‘The dance floor at the wedding of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Niall Ferguson would have been the Guardian’s worst nightmare’

The Ground Zero mosque debate shows America, like Britain, pursuing the chimera of attempting to reform Islam