Silly season: Mountains from molehills

Ian Franks decries 'silly season' in which media make much of very little,

World has history of extremism

Extremists are generally accepted as being bad news by most people who regard themselves as reasonable or moderate. Jihadists, such as those making up the murderous Islamic State, are probably the most well-known extremists in today’s world but they are by no means the only ones; neither now nor in history. In earlier times, fundamentalist …

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