Independent Voices, And Not

"Cameron talked the talk at conference. But after the bombing, what then," asks Robert Fisk?

"It is now our solemn duty as Western Muslims to stand with our adopted homeland against the murderers of Alan Henning," declares Yasmin Alibhai-Brown.

"Twitter provides one of the few forums in which Saudis can discuss what they really feel - and it says they blame the clergy for Isis," explains Patrick Cockburn.

And Joe Biden upholds the grand old tradition of American Vice Presidents (often shared by British Deputy Prime Ministers) who were born without a filter.

His subsequent backtracking has not amounted to a retraction. How could it? He has done nothing more, nor anything less, than state the obvious.