On such small things do lives turn

Poor old Samina Malik, convicted under the new "information potentially useful to terrorists laws" for having a whole load of volumes of the Anarchist's Halal Cookbook and writing, among other things:

"The desire within me increases everyday to go for martyrdom. The need to go increases by the second".

so near and yet she fucked it up. Our greatest living novelist called Martin Amis shows what she should have said:

"The desire within me - don't you have it too? - increases everyday to go for martyrdom. The need to go increases by the second".

Much nicer. See folks, that's the difference between "saying" something and "adumbrating" it, and it's basically the difference between keeping your honorary job as a Professor at Manchester University and spending ten months on remand.