Some readers may be interested in a discussion I had on the BBC Radio 4 programme The World At One, on Friday 8th January. For the moment, you can listen to it here

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06tvsx0

The item begins (with several reports) at about seven minutes in. Our discussion begins at about 18 minutes in

Ms Hinsliff had written this interesting if disappointing article in the ‘Guardian’.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/08/cologne-attacks-hard-questions-new-years-eve

Note its references to ‘misogynist dinosaurs’ and the way it rather trails away at the end into largely irrelevant calls for ‘more policing’ as if that was the point. However, it shows commendable signs of dawning doubt, so I accepted the invitation to pedal across London to New Broadcasting House, the BBC’s unsatisfactory new plastic palace, and discuss the matter with her (alas, she was in a remote studio, so we didn’t actually meet)