It's a simple truth, but lost on people who "lead", that all progress requires change but not all change constitutes progress.
"This incident constitutes a potential breach of operational security and potentially the commission of a criminal offence under the commonwealth Crimes Act," an officer from the defence security authority wrote.
It is surely within PEN's remit to decide if Charlie Hebdo's commitment to the images (racist or not) constitutes courage.
But not every group of people walking in the same direction constitutes a march.
The first thing is that the process of enhancing teaching and learning in the primary years may require a change of hearts and minds about what constitutes good maths teaching and (quite often) the suspension of prior beliefs.
It is not easy to even begin to quantify what constitutes just reparations for horrors such as slavery in America, apartheid in South Africa and the Nazi Holocaust in Europe; yet that is the ethical question raised when the past pushes its way, uncomfortably, into the present.
On Thursday, HMRC estimated that, under its definition of what constitutes tax avoidance, £5bn had been lost last year — the same amount as for 2009-10.
Clearly, there is a debate to be had about what constitutes behaviour likely to cause someone distress, but it strikes me that the most useful voices to listen to if we want to find out, are those of the people experiencing harassment on a regular basis.
The bill's claim of what potentially constitutes extremism is so removed from reality that it will do nothing to actually "prevent people being drawn into terrorism".
He added: "If you accept the argument that Hinkley constitutes a 'market failure' as put forward by the commission, you could apply it to all other means of electricity production, probably all other forms of energy conversion, and it might even apply beyond the energy sector.
The station has argued it has done nothing which constitutes an offence.
