In 2003, American journalist Bill Moyers asked Bill Gates a question. Why, Moyers wanted to know, are you so passionate about reproductive issues? Gates considered. “But did you come to reproductive issues as an intellectual, philosophical pursuit?” Moyers pressed. “Or was there something that happened? [W]as there a revelation?” “When I was growing up, my parents were […]
“I am in regular contact with the leaders of other nations on these issues. We simply won’t be intimidated.”
Ask anyone what colour a robin’s breast is and they will answer ‘red’. Ask anyone to paint a robin and they will reach for the red tube. It is a perception, coloured you might say, by what we have been told, by the way the robin is portrayed in Christmas cards and children’s storybooks. And in nature […]
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In a debate in the House of Commons, Edmund Burke is documented as saying: “there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters’ Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all.” The Fourth Estate – the press – were meant to be a light to expose the truth, to […]
“Glory to God in the highest, and peace to people of goodwill”. So, according to the bible, spoke the angels to the Shepherds who journeyed to pay respects to the newborn Jesus in the hours after his birth. Though those words were recorded two millennia ago, and regardless of whether they are apocryphal or a […]
Bad news for anyone who fancies a dip.