‘Then the beating began. One of the new arrivals punched Christopher hard in the face. Two others grabbed his arm and started dragging him across the street. For the first time the Hitch looked scared’

‘If we do not act, we face a nuclear-armed Iran or a new Middle East confrontation’

The cartoon controversy has cowed all the Nordic countries except Denmark

‘Few opinion-shapers in the West feel outraged enough to condemn it, let alone grasp what is at stake in the Hariri tribunal’