David Cameron has called on the BBC to stop using the term Islamic State, claiming that the group is neither Islamic nor a state. But how does he know? The prime minister's not a theologian or an expert on Islamic thought or text. Can you really isolate the group from its religious roots?

[to a United Kingdom Independence Party Member of the European Parliament] Are you a political party or are you a Whitehall farce?

[on Christians who suggested floods were caused by homosexual marriage] If gay people could change the weather, wouldn't that make them God's anointed people?

So much of American media now is people shouting at each other.

Freedom of expression is always the first casualty when politicians are on a witch-hunt against the press.