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. It had been the best hope for a treatment for Alzheimer's. Many years work and more than a billion pounds of investment have come to naught, to the...
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...
There was just a hint in Stephen Hester's interview on this programme yesterday that the banking sector has finally run out of fig leaves. To his credit, the Royal Bank of Scotland boss certainly used honest language. He talked about remodelling the...
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. We are men and women, younger and older from almost every continent. Some are very fit world class athletes and...
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-Royc...
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...
