Explanations

The BBC has drawn me out of the cave I've been sitting in for the past six months, and I have some explanations to make for my reticence.

So: explanations with illustrations will be posted here next week.

More radio

I took part in a Radio 5 Live phone in this morning between 9:00am and 9:30am, and have now been asked to take part in a World Service phone in, with a worldwide catchment, this evening between 6:00pm and 7:00pm, UK time.

UPDATE

The other guests will be Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and a representative of the Muslim Brotherhood from Cairo.

Radio 5 Live

I will be taking part in a radio discussion tomorrow, Saturday 15th September, on BBC Radio 5. The subject will be freedom of expression and its limits, the context will be the calls for the Pope to apologise for the offense he has caused parts of the Muslim world. Broadcast time will be around 8:30pm.

There will be another person taking part but I don't yet know who it will be.

UPDATE - I will be debating with Dilip Hiro.