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. 政府和工党昨日就对对伦敦银行同业拆放利率丑闻进行...
A former cabinet minister once infamously described the homeless as the people you step over when you're coming out of the opera. 一位前内阁部长曾可耻地把无家可归的人形容成被走出歌剧院的观众从身上跨过的人。 As re...
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. It had been clear from my pink freckled skin and my lack of enthusiasm f...
J. K. Galbraith once said, Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. J.k.加尔布雷斯曾说过：政治不是有关可能性的艺术，它要么给人带来灾难，要么让人难以...
On the train yesterday I sat next to a family with some very excited children who were off on holiday. You couldn't help being caught up in their sense of excitement and anticipation. I know just how they feel. I keep wanting to say: Are we there yet...
You can become more fearful and protective of your lifestyle and your loved ones or you come to terms with the fact that open and tolerant societies will always come with their own risks. These societies flourish because we put our trust in people, i...
Over the last few days we have seen and been reminded of two massacres. Last weekend Norway remembered the first anniversary of the 77 victims of a bomb and gun shooting. During a brief television clip a young Norwegian man said that this tragedy had...
The British propensity for non-deference militates against special treatment to anyone, unless of course you're the official underdog. The last shall be first is a biblical theme which could just as easily have been written by a British attitudes and...
The London Olympics has given us new vocabulary: ORNs and PRNs. Or as we've been hearing, Olympic Road Network and Paralympic Road Network. And as from today London commuters travelling along the Olympic network will have to beware of the 30 miles of...
I was attending a workshop on women and violence. One told her story. She was 18 and visiting a farm with her boyfriend. Alone together, they had sex even though she didn't want to. Guilt-ridden, humiliated and demeaned, why didn't she report it? Bec...
