Earlier this week Sir Elton John expressed anxieties about how his young son, Zachary, might be treated when he goes to school. 本周早些时候，艾尔顿约翰爵士坦言自己对儿子扎卡里的担心， He fears he might face bullying becau...
If a butterfly flutters its wings, so chaos theory goes, it can cause the path of a tornado to change, and so the reverberations can be felt across the world. 混沌学理论提到，如果一只蝴蝶煽动翅膀，卷风的路线会因其改变，全...
What is a Caucus-race? asked Alice during her adventure in Wonderland. The Dodo explained. 什么是会议式赛跑？爱丽丝在梦游仙境中问到。渡渡鸟解释道。 First you mark out a racecourse, though the shape of it doesn't really mat...
A few years ago my middle son who was around seven years old at the time, had cycled away from home without telling anyone. 几年前，七岁左右的儿子一声不吭地骑车离开了家。 It was a mild summer evening and there were many childre...
Tomorrow, the verdict is expected in the highly controversial trial of three members of the punk band Pussy Riot, 明天，将判决极具争议的朋克乐队暴动猫的三名成员， who have been jailed for staging what they described as a polit...
Whatever happened to the silly season? 今年的新闻饥荒期是怎么回事？ You know, that time of the year when the wisdom of the 1st century poet Horace is adopted by news editors, 新闻饥荒期，众所周知，就是每年记者们对公元...
It's not easy to knuckle down to the responsibilities of a working week and a wounded world after the excitements of the Olympic experience which has taken us all by surprise. There's a rather strange story in the Christian gospels which might be of...
Newspaper obituaries are a useful window onto history and reading accounts of the life of the late politician Alf Morris this week reminded me just how different Britain was 50 years ago before Morris and fellow MP Jack Ashley championed the disabled...
The original Olympic Games were far from being a meaningless tribute to ancient pagan Gods, Zeus and his many relations. The ancient Greeks can still help us understand what has been happening over these last two weeks, if we shake their genuine insi...
Being here in Edinburgh on the opening day of the International Book Festival feels like the perfect place to celebrate words and stories, 在国际图书节开幕的这天，在爱丁堡歌颂语言和小说是再适合不过的了， especially as...
