Low wages, inadequate schools and a stalled social ladder are real problems. But many protests also target the market, NATO, collective defence and Western democracies. It is up to the institutions to ensure the law is upheld. Parents have the less visible but crucial task of explaining why the world their children are protesting against also offers solutions to their problems.

 “My country is the anti-world that envies, hates and would like to swallow up the West. It is like a moon that stops reflecting the sun and decides to eclipse it. But if the West is proud of itself and stands up to it, it will force Moscow to abandon its expansionist ambitions.”

 Springer’s chief: “Internal and external enemies want to put an end to us”

In the dramatic solitude of the secularised West, we have deluded ourselves into thinking we can do without it. But the finiteness of life always raises the question of meaning, from which it is impossible to escape. A conversation with Cardinal Robert Sarah