William Wyler's remake is just a pious slog up to the admittedly exciting chariot race (which Wyler did not shoot anyway).

ECONOMIST: Hollywood

The press, currently so pious and pompous about the BBC's mistakes, faces the Leveson report at a very low level of public trust, and unless it learns to deal with its mistakes in a serious and transparent way, that is how it will remain.

CNN: BBC in crisis: What have we learned?

The deeper worry among Turkey's secular elite is not about creeping Islam but over a loss of power to an encroaching class of pious bureaucrats and entrepreneurs that has become increasingly visible since Turgut Ozal, a modernising former prime minister, liberalised the economy after the generals' third and most recent direct coup in 1980.

ECONOMIST: Reforms in Turkey