We exchanged bits of English and bits of Turkish, established that we both had a sense of humour, and decided to eat lunch together.

BBC: The perfect trip: Turkey

Sectarianism lingers on in Northern Ireland, bits of Scotland and some English cities like Liverpool.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot

Important meetings and bits of paperwork are in English.

ECONOMIST: Finance after the crisis: Pactual

If the future Archbishop of Canterbury insists on the covenant, bits of the communion may reject the arrangement whereby an English prelate chairs the global fraternity, says Frank Kirkpatrick, an American Episcopalian priest.

ECONOMIST: Rowan Williams��s successor will have an even harder tenure