Channel 4s programme, What Muslims Really Think, seems to be based on a survey asking very leading questions.

There’s a fierce debate about how much poker machine reforms will hurt the clubs. There’s no doubt they’ll take a pummelling, but then we have to look at how serious we are about fixing the problem.

The UK PrimeMinister, David Cameron, has asked for harsher sentences to fight crime — if Australia is anything to go by, he might have a point.

There is something startlingly predictable about last weekend’s riots in the UK. The only surprise is that they didn’t happen sooner.