Stan, that’s a fascinating article on Oriana Fallaci. It’s a disgrace that she’s been prosecuted, of course, but it’s worth remembering that the predictably disgusting Tony Blair is now looking to introduce exactly the same sort of anti-free speech legislation in the UK. Why? To try and lure back some Labour’s lost Muslim voters. A vote or two is evidently worth more to Blair than any notion of liberty, but then, after eight years of his remarkably repressive government, no-one should be astonished by that.

On Benedict XVI, it’s no great surprise that an atheist is an admirer. Atheism is, after all, a matter of faith…