“Here’s a short Christmas quiz. Let me rephrase that. It’s a short Winterval quiz. I would not wish to frighten or alienate any Sunday Times readers by waving Jesus Christ in their faces.

Anyway, the first question is this. One of the two statements below may soon be illegal; the other will still be within the law. You have to decide which is which and explain, with the aid of a diagram, the logic behind the new provision.

a) Stoning women to death for adultery is barbaric.

b) People who believe it is right to stone women to death for adultery are barbaric.” [more] (Sunday Times of London)