I know that there are appeals for clemency coming from different countries around the world for my two Australian friends. Australia is a powerful country even though it is small, and Australia has a big trade market with Indonesia. I know these things, because we have been here a long time, and we have talked… Continue reading The Bali Nine
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treating causes not symptoms
It is a good general principle to treat the cause rather than the symptom, although in modern medicine we seem to spend more and more times and money treating symptoms whilst acknowledging, but refusing to deal with, the causes. However what spurred me to write the previous post ‘losing a baby’ was listening to the… Continue reading treating causes not symptoms
greed
The row about the proposed takeover of AstraZeneca by Pfizer is not going away. I heard the most succinct argument against it on yesterday’s radio 4 PM programme, made by Professor Sir Alan Fersht, currently Master of Gonville and Caius, Cambridge, and a distinguished and much decorated chemist. As far as I can tell the… Continue reading greed
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