Evil Is Often Supposed To Be Without

Virtue Is Something You Have To Get Good At, Like Playing The Trombone Or Tolerating Bores At Parties. Being A Virtuous Human Being Takes Practice; And Those Who Are Brilliant At Being Human (what Christians Call The Saints) Are The Virtuosi Of The Moral Sphere - The Pavarottis And Maradonas Of Virtue.

Nothing In Human Life Is Inherently Private.

For The Liberal State To Accommodate A Diversity Of Beliefs While Having Few Positive Convictions Is One Of The More Admirable Achievements Of Civilization.

Language Always Pre-exists Us: It Is Always Already 'in Place', Waiting To Assign Us Our Places Within It.

There Is An Insuperable Problem About Introducing Immigrants To British Values. There Are No British Values. Nor Are There Any Serbian Or Peruvian Values. No Nation Has A Monopoly On Fairness And Decency, Justice And Humanity.