(1) With our politics increasingly polarised , it saddens me to see my students being initiated – deliberately or not – into an essentially Manichaean view of politics, with a checklist of “goodies” (leftists, trade unions, Corbyn) and “baddies” (Tories, Brexiteers, anyone who uses the phrase British values without irony).
(2) For men such as Emwazi, Isis – with its Manichaean vision of good and evil – meets a need.
(3) For a week or so, we have been back in the straightforward Manichaean world she demanded.