Ordin­ary Icelanders are no more respons­ible for the risk-seeking busi­ness­men who hap­pen to hold our pass­port than the people of north Lon­don are respons­ible for the destruct­ive beha­viour of the tal­en­ted Amy Winehouse.

- Pro­fessor Eirikur Bergmann Einarsson on Britain’s use of ter­ror­ism laws to claw back the money inves­ted in col­lapsed Icelandic bank, Icesave.