The idea is that young children will become used to diversity naturally and hopefully grow to become adults who are respectful of religions other than their own.

While some claim freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend, others claim such freedom of speech led to the violence in Paris.

One of the happiest things that has happened in 2014 is the emergence of voices calling for more common sense in the way we discuss things in our country.

Trying to determine if a TV programme is threatening to one’s faith can be a real challenge.

Real leaders have a vision of where they want to take the country, and are able to articulate that vision clearly.

IMAGINE if you will, a band of warriors making their way through some tall grass. They are armed to the teeth because they are convinced that within the dense foliage, there are untold numbers of hostile parties ready to attack them at any time.

The trouble with silence is that nobody knows what it means, so we can only make up reasons.

Sometimes it feels like we are being asked to despise an ever-growing list of people and things.

We always seem to think that we have no choice when it comes to doing evil, but plenty of choice to do good things that we then don’t exercise.

A lot of strange things have been going on that must surely be a sign of the end of something.

When legislation is clear on crimes yet law enforcers ignore them, the public loses its sense of what is lawful and what is not.

Sometimes, political and social problems arise out of some very basic issues of survival.