They sang to wish me a safe homeward journey, and to warn me of the dangers of Amarula, the local liquor.

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And I was frantic, intimidated by the way he swung his little car out across the lanes, overtaking recklessly on rises and bends, as if to warn me of the storm to come.

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But nobody was there to warn me about what kind of girls I might wind up dating unless I found a wife at my elite university.

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Typically they would warn me about the dangers of: people of different races and people of different classes or sometimes of just too many people in general.

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That was indeed the fear of a blogger who rang me at the weekend to warn that "world governments are going to get together in London to shut down freedom on the internet!"

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