The shiniest kid on the block of fundamentalisms is “market fundamentalism”. The Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd is sparring with his conservative counter parts over the role of capitalism as a cause for the current financial crisis: “Free market fundamentalism, underpinning greed, caused the global financial crisis which has now caused a global economic recession affecting every country in the world,” he observed.

A classified internal research document by Britain’s MI5 concludes that “there is no easy way to identify those who become involved in terrorism in Britain,” reports the Guardian. “There is no single pathway to violent extremism.” Could that be made required reading, please?