I know well the line on Anders Breivik and his incoherent ramblings: a mass murderer enjoying the oxygen of publicity for his vile ideas. He should have been shot. He is, in fact, mad. His trial should not be reported. Liberals have said all these things and more. The quiet, almost sterile way in which the Norwegians are listening to him personifies the "muscular liberalism" that David Cameron once spoke of.

Breivik's ideology may be difficult to listen to, but not because it is incoherent. Precisely the opposite: it is familiar. This is a problem for all of us, right or left. I wish I lived in a world where I didn't have to hear gross generalisations about Islam and creeping sharia or see an increase in antisemitism, hear fantasies about feminism going too far, and where people didn't feel their own culture to be "swamped". I wish the word "war" wasn't thrown around all the time - the war on terror, the war on drugs, the war on red tape. I wish that everything really was run by "cultural Marxists". I wish my neighbour, who has lived here for 50 years and whose grandchildren tell me she prays for me, had learned English and left the house sometimes.

I see what fuelled Breivik's crusader fantasy, his absolute fear of difference. It is not uncommon and it needs to be met head on. Still, any questioning of "multiculturalism" as it functions produces accusations of racism. The left closes in and closes down this debate. The middle class pretend Eid cakes, Diwali lights and a bit of jerk chicken will do. It won't.

Confirming years of speculation, a new study from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Animal Health Monitoring System has found that red meat significantly increases the risk of premature death in cows. "Our research suggests that by having red meat, a cow's life can be shortened by as many as 10 years, sometimes more," Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in an interview with CNN Tuesday.

The cybercriminals have taken aim at customers of all of Finland's largest banks. And not even the most up-to-date security software on home computers has been able to deflect the criminal attacks, said OP-Pohjola's Director of online services, Kai Koskela.

Any communication system is only as secure as its weakest link:

Nordea Bank stressed that the attacks target home computers, not the banks' systems. The bank estimates that hundreds of home computers in Finland are currently harbouring some kind of malware.

Home computers are vulnerable to malware because all microcomputer Operating Systems, including Linux, have a huge gaping hole: they allow programs to be downloaded and then run on the system.

Ever since I learnt about confirmation bias I've started seeing it everywhere

Ah well

keep to the Fen Causeway

Oddly, we still get a lot of exhortations to pound the podium so the public's deeply hidden desire to sing the Internationale can, somehow, be liberated.