It was Bob Diamond, recently of Barclays, who defined business culture as how people behave when no one is watching. Speaking in a lecture sponsored by the Today programme last year, he declared that business corporations like Barclays had to learn h...
One of the features in common between the phone hacking scandal, the various banking scams and the latest row, over the failure of G4S, is that the men at the top claim not to have known what was going on. OK, you can't expect the top person to know...
It is said that faith is both a gift and a task. 人们说信仰既是馈赠也是任务。 By Saturday this week most Muslims around the world will have begun observing the month of Ramadan, 这周六，世界各地大多数的穆斯林要开始庆祝...
As a boy I'd have been in dead trouble if I'd ever used the name of Jesus as a swear word at home. Blasphemy just wasn't tolerated, even though my parents were non-believers. The boundaries between acceptable and unacceptable language are shifting al...
It was the late 70s and we thought him almost a god, my school friends Helen and Anne and I. An actor-director undergraduate, impossibly tall, dark and drop dead gorgeous, he co-hosted a party every summer for which all the guests had to dress in whi...
The Bible's boring, everyone knows that. Phares begat Esrom and Esrom begat Aram and Aram begat Aminadab. When I was teaching public bible reading in our church, I made the lesson readers practice with a telephone directory, to learn how to make it i...
A photo of the Rolling Stones was prominent in the papers yesterday, as they came together to celebrate the 50th anniversary of their first live performance in 1962. Their faces revealed that they had, to put it politely, aged somewhat. You are old F...
Yesterday the Health Secretary announced his social care reform plan. The reforms have been adopted from an earlier commission which grappled with the soaring cost of residential care. While the State is considering the cost of care for a growing ove...
A burglary is often described as being a violation. 入室行窃经常被形容为一种暴行， And it's a good word for it because it's not just about what is physically taken, it's about what is emotionally done to the person being robbed. 这个词...
These well-informed young people had a very modest interest in the print media. 这些见多识广的年轻人对纸质媒体兴致不高。 Unlike me, they didn't feel their day was incomplete without reading a newspaper. 我要是一天不看报纸就...
