Financial Crises Are Like Fireworks: They Illuminate

Is There Any Purpose To Translating Poetry? A Poem Does Not Contain Information Of Importance, Like A Signpost Or A Warning Notice.

We Read Too Much Shakespeare At School, And View Our Parliamentary Politics As Dynastic Drama, In Which An Impatient Crown Prince Frets At His Long Subordination And Begins To Scheme For The Throne He Knows He Merits, Was Promised And Has Earned.

Losing Your Capital Is Like Losing Your Trousers. It Is A Real Humiliation, And One Not To Be Soon Repeated.

Governments Of Rich Countries Spend Some $6bn Of Tax Money A Year On Disaster Relief And Development Aid Overseas, While Each New Earthquake, Famine Or Tidal Wave Can Attract 1,000 Aid Organisations, From The United Nations Children's Fund And Oxfam To The 'jesus Brigades' Of The American South And Other Charitable Adventurers.

Were There Peace And Justice In The Middle East, The Arabs Would No More Need Their Tinhorn Dictators Than They Would Their Corpulent Princes.