Ignore the incessant, mindless chatter on Twitter – the call of the gibbon says so much more

I can’t be the only person to have been hurt last week when the Scottish lawyer Aamer Anwar popped up on Newsnight to dismiss the idea that imams are to blame for persuading Muslim teenagers they’ll have more fun in Raqqa than in Ayia Napa. Who do you think takes any notice of an old man in a beard, he asked. Well let me tell him...