Archive for January, 2005
Some do not remember, others cannot forget
See BBC NEWS | World | Europe | World marks Auschwitz liberation My next door neighbour was an Auschwitz survivor. His name was Abraham, and in the camp he was put on the night shift of forced labour. He survived - he said - because the guards were too tired to beat the prisoners. At one point he was so hungry that he climbed a refuse pile [...]
Competing on price: why the Tory election strategy is programmed to fail
See BBC NEWS | Politics | Howard dismisses Tory tax fears 35 billion pound cutbacks, to produce a 4 billion pound tax cut? Some of us are left asking a simple question: why? Britain is at its most prosperous ever. True, we don't rule half the world as we once did, and we are no longer the economic powerhouse that we once were, but in terms of [...]
The Tsunami brings us all to face ourselves
Today we share three minutes of silence. At 12.00 in Britain. At 11.00 in Europe. We will share a common moment of respect, of memory, of reflection. This is a disaster unlike others. Vast in scale, an enormous human catastrophe. Television, the internet and world travel bring it very close to us. For many of us, friends lost their lives, or [...]
