Opinion

"You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost." - Francis Ford Coppola He's nearly 70 now.

In my trade you get used to it after a while, but the first time you wake up to find a military coup has happened overnight where you live is quite alarming.

One of the most entertaining moments of the Apple vs.

One of the first scenes in the ridiculous but thoroughly nasty film "Innocence of Muslims" shows angry Muslims running through the streets smashing things and killing people.

I have to admit that over the last few months, as I have read about how public money is being spent by all levels of government, I have been left scratching my head about some of the decisions behind the handouts.

" Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigour, and moral courage which it contained.

Thinking about thanks

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

Food is politics

It was a welcome change from the usual dreary story: a Christian or a Hindu Pakistani accused of blasphemy on flimsy grounds, tried, and sentenced to prison – or found innocent, set free and then murdered by some Muslim fanatic.