"Our decent desire to be polite, combined with our indecent concessions to fear, make reform of Islam less likely"

‘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’