For a more pretentious, derivative, public school version of Adele.

The tragedy of Islam is that it is still stuck back where Christianity was when Galileo was under threat for saying that the Earth orbits the Sun. It has lacked a reformation. From being at the forefront of science, medicine, mathematics, art, and literature, the Islamic world has simply failed to innovate or discover for centuries.

The decision takes delegitimisation of Israel in the UK to new levels. Not only can you freely trash Israeli goods in a supermarket, practice antisemitism at a British University and get an arrest warrant for an Israeli visiting the UK, you can now break into a factory making exports to Israel and lay waste to the production machinery.

At a philosophical level there is something extraordinarily solipsistic about the idea that you have to experience something yourself to find out about it - as if people couldn't speak to one another, use their imaginations and empathise. It suggests a breakdown of faith in communication, and an over-emphasis on "experience" - both of which I would argue are indeed defining characteristics of our culture today. But ours is also a class culture, and it is typical of the upper middle classes to want all experience for themselves, even poverty: what they are incapable of doing is just shutting up and listening.

I don't want a multicultural society, I'm a monoculturalsit, I think multiculturalism is a disaster and leads to the creation of hostile solitudes, and is leading to that. I think its been catastrophic for many people, just go to the city of Bradford and see how the two parts have turned their backs on each other and wonder how the future is going to turn out there and tell me you're in favour of multiculturalism, I'd be amazed.

You can tell how ill-informed politicians and media types are by a series of easy tests. Here are some. Do they refer to ‘bobbies on the beat’? This is a clear sign of a dunce on the subject. The modern generation of uniformed social workers, loaded down with stab-vests, retract­able batons, handcuffs, frying pans, helmet videos, SatNavs, pepper sprays, homophobia detection devices and sociology books, cannot possibly be called ‘bobbies’ by anyone who understands the English language.

You talk about China as though it is a tin pot dictatorship. They have built the biggest dam in the world- they got blamed for displacing people. They have just introduced an all English news channel- they are accused of bias. They built the Quinghai Railway to Tibet- they are accused of anti- Tibetanism ( whatever that overblown, treehugging, Hollywood actor nothingtodo so hug buddism means). They have moved into 2nd place in GDP league- they are accused of paying low wages( they all manage to have jobs and mobile phones though- yeah even farmers) and everybody is on subsistence wages. They produced a flawless olympics- but it wasnt the real voice of the cute little girl singing( you had to stretch to criticise that one).
AND finally, and here is the biggy- they got rid of their emperor and parasites who (lets face it, the royalty situation can't be any more totalitarian as we as british 'subjects' don't get to choose the King or Queen) raped and pillaged the country for centuries. They also don't take offence at a poxy little island on the edge of Europe that is living on its history, its money pirated over the last hundred years and its irrational presumption that it has any microscopic influence in the world. Wake up, grow up and shut up.
Take a leaf from Socrates- admit what you don't know before you start pontificating.
Listen to your brother- He's right! There are no monsters in the cupboard. THEY DON'T EXIST. So stop wasting your time on Sundays.