Episode thirty-six of The Week in Review is out now.

It seems both sides are desperate for the ‘right’ criminals to be caught.

An America built on the English ideas of individual freedom and liberty couldn't help believing that the world wanted to adopt the same values. The Taliban had other ideas.

It is up to we the people to be in control of our political process, to make sure that our representatives are the ones effecting change and not the judges sitting on the bench.

As long as the institution is treated as an infallible deity to whom only further sacrifices must be made – a few more billion pounds here, a few months locked up inside there – nothing meaningful will change.

The darkened skies of the American Empire are more likely to have been caused by the passing clouds than a setting sun.

That is why meeting in person at organised events, social get-togethers and chance encounters is so valuable.

Who knew that political partisans would weaponise poorly defined and ambiguous articles of legislation to put the law in their favour and crush their hated opposition?