Everyone loves a bargain, as those restaurant chains which offer you special all you can eat deals for a fixed price know all too well. In Pakistan a pizza company had been doing a roaring trade during the Muslim month of fasting. Families who were r...
Two US companies announced earlier this week that they have shelved the testing of a particular drug. 本周早些时候，两家美国公司宣布他们已放弃对一种药的测试。 It had been the best hope for a treatment for Alzheimer's. 人们...
The sight of a grown woman lying on the floor, her wrist pinned down by the foot of someone who was supposed to be caring for her was one of the more shocking images that emerged from Winterbourne View, 一个成年女子躺在地板上，她的手腕被...
The sight of a grown woman lying on the floor, her wrist pinned down by the foot of someone who was supposed to be caring for her was one of the more shocking images that emerged from Winterbourne View, the private hospital which was home to 44 peopl...
When I'm sitting in the Multi-faith Centre at the Athlete's Village I can look around at the diverse representation of humanity I am with. 我坐在运动员村的宗教多元中心，环顾四周，看见了形形色色、各具代表的人。 We ar...
The spirit of the late Sir Jimmy Savile was alive and well in the Savile Hall in Leeds two days ago when personal items were sold to benefit his favourite charities. In a 12-hour sale over 350 items raised ?330,000 for charity. Rolex and Rolls-Royce,...
The government and the Labour Party disagreed yesterday about what sort of enquiry there should be into the Libor scandal, but they both agreed there're needs to be such an enquiry. Something went wrong and it's important to find out why. What intere...
A former cabinet minister once infamously described the homeless as the people you step over when you're coming out of the opera. As reprehensible a joke as it is, his words are about to be thrown back at him, or rather sung back, by the kind of peop...
Two weeks ago while at a soccer match in Houston, the woman beside me said she was in London last year and the Olympics will be a mess, or at least that was a polite paraphrase. 两周前，在休斯敦的一场足球赛上，我旁边一位女士说，...
J. K. Galbraith once said, Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. He could have been speaking of the decisions we keep putting off about how we pay for future care of the elderly....
