DA’ISH (ISIS) is the grizzliest phenomenon of the modern world. Having specialised in finding the most shocking ways of carrying out public executions. It is now manufacturing and using chemical weapons with ghastly mass effect.

Those of our disordered citizens who join this cult of death, declaring themselves to be the Queen’s enemies, should be given no quarter. They deserve to be targeted with whatever appropriate weapon systems we possess. Properly targeted and deployed, drones are an entirely satisfactory means with which to pursue them, after all…they had it coming.

To those of us brought up on Cricket and Christianity -giving us a C of E ‘middle and leg’ approach to most of life’s great questions- religious fanaticism is an incomprehensible phenomenon: we can entirely understand that men and women can be crazed and wicked. It is impossible however, to understand their claim to be doing the will of God.

The certainty with which Dai’sh terrorists believe that -should they die whilst massacring innocents- they will be welcomed to paradise with the gift of 72 virgins, is perhaps the most bizarre belief of all. I understand that now scholars believe that it all comes down to a mistranslation: the offer is raisins, not virgins. Boy, are these guys going to have to handle disappointment.

I was listening to some of the coverage of the continuing refugee crisis on the radio. They were asking refugees where they had fled from.

Thus far, the focus has been on Syria and, in particular, Syrian families. Actually, we estimate that only between one and three percent of Syrian refugees move beyond the countries bordering Syria. What is now apparent, is that there has been a rush of other migrants prompted by the signal that Europe is planning to accommodate them with a mandatory quota system.

I was not surprised to hear so many young men admitting that they had come from the Punjab –what sort of war zone is that?

This is exactly what the Prime Minister warned about the mandatory quota European proposal.