The annual celebration of British music marked a historic double for the Arctic Monkeys, who became the first act to win best British band and best British album in three separate years, beating past winners Coldplay and Manic Street Preachers.
"We can't be negative Nellies and Debbie downers and doomsday preachers that there is going to be economic peril".
Pleas from Muslim preachers in Britain to spare him fell on deaf ears.Hizbullah, the Shia militia-cum-party in Lebanon, claimed responsibility for a bomb blast that wounded two Israeli soldiers in a contested border region.
State attempts to control preachers only increase mistrust of them.
And the internet allows the masses of alienated youth to listen to the most radical preachers rather than the imam at their local mosque.
Disciples of one of Iraq's more excitable sects protest at the arrest of armed preachers who hailed the emergence of Khomeini-style rule.
Thus decreed China's imperial rulers during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) when they found their authority challenged by charismatic preachers and mystics.
Politicians, preachers, lawyers, bureaucrats and, one suspects, journalist-novelists like himself, also flunk his test of masculinity by engaging in namby-pamby occupations.
But Africans still like to hear foreign preachers.
Despite strong influence from the Muslim Brotherhood, many of whose members fled to Qatar from Egypt and Syria in the 1960s and 1970s to serve as teachers and preachers, Qatar's rulers have in practice frowned on organised political Islam.
Salafist preachers, who had originally called for a march after Friday prayers on June 15th, told their steamy followers not to rally after all.
