Podium News Archive
Articles from the Indepentent
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- George Bush: 'We've been humbled by the powers of Mother Nature'
- Gerhard Schröder: 'When it comes to preserving peace, who do you trust?'
- Alan Greenspan: 'Competition is essential to rising living standards'
- Angela Merkel: 'We need to elicit a yearning for the sea, a need to build'
- John Paul Stevens: 'Two ways sentencing is tipped in favour of death'
- Peter Fincham: 'Lurking in the background are ratings and share'
- Viktor Yushchenko: 'We must intensify efforts to fight corruption'
- David Cameron: 'Premature withdrawal would be a surrender to jihadism'
- Alex Linklater: 'Stories don't need to be big to do great things'
- Pope Benedict XVI: 'Dialogue between Christians and Muslims is a necessity'
- Gilda: President Bush, you owe us an explanation for Iraq
- Pope Benedict XVI: 'Searching for someone who can offer a certainty to live for'
- Junichiro Koizumi: 'I am determined not to forget the lessons of that war'
- Ariel Sharon: 'This ends a glorious chapter in the history of Israel'
- Manmohan Singh: 'A billion people are seeking their destiny in a democracy'
- Moshe Katsav: 'We ask forgiveness for the demand that you leave'
- Muammar Gaddafi: 'Even Arab presidents write their letters in English'
- Eileen Collins: 'From space, the Earth's atmosphere looks like an eggshell'
- Tadatoshi Akiba: 'No one should ever suffer as we did'
- Binyamin Netanyahu: 'What are we receiving in return for this withdrawal?
- Afif Safieh: 'I never compare the Palestinian Nakba to the Holocaust'
- David McCoy: 'If we are to improve health care, it must be a global effort'
- George Bush: 'Cynical people accomplish little that makes them proud'
- Nathalie Civet: 'The people in Darfur are in a humanitarian limbo'
- William Alsop: 'That a patient is in a bed without a view is immaterial'
- Andrew Turnbull: The benefits of the miners' strike and the ERM
- Hillary Clinton: 'We have been split between left right and centre'
- John Harvey-Jones: 'Why small businesses are better than big ones'
- Stephen Lewis: 'See us children carrying our parents in their coffins'
- Karen Armstrong: 'All the major traditions adopted the theology of non-violence'
- Pervez Musharraf: 'Islam is taught by an obscurantist and illiterate segment'
- Peter Mandelson: 'We cannot afford to live in a world of economic self-delusion'
- Manmohan Singh: 'No grievance can justify resort to terror'
- Marina Warner: Writing is done alone, but it is not made alone
- Michael Howard: 'Europe was the moving force of his political career'
- Colleen Harris: 'Minorities need greater integration, not separate communities'
- Oliver Letwin: What drives people from the city to the country is ugliness
- George Osborne: A taxation policy does not equal an economic policy
- Gordon Brown: Europe needs to meet and master globalisation
- Julian Morris: Why eating organic food can be bad for you
- George Bush: 'The future of civilisation is at stake in this struggle'
- William Poole: 'What made the Fed so successful under Alan Greenspan?'
- Kofi Annan: Our world cannot have development without human rights
- Inviolata Mmbwavi: People who cannot afford food cannot afford treatment
- John McCain: 'We are fighting to protect the ascendancy of our ideas'
- Paul Martin: 'The maple leaf is a symbol of duty, valour and pride'
- Gordon Brown: Without democracy, development is likely to go wrong
- David Cameron: I came into politics to do the right thing and make a difference
- Trevor Phillips: 'Reality TV is a chance to encounter other ethnic groups'
- P D James: Crime and policing have changed in fiction and in real life
- Alan Greenspan: 'A US trade backlash would harm the global economy'
- Don McKinnon: 'Agricultural subsidies cost lives as well as money'
- Michael Holroyd: 'It's not easy recapturing that old youthful spirit'
- Condoleezza Rice: 'Given our history, the US has no cause for false pride'
- Arthur Smith: 'Malcolm Bradbury marked my play: 'B minus. Stick to comedy'
- Michael Jacobson: 'Putting more people in prison is not the way to tackle crime'
- Vernon Bogdanor: 'Our electoral system failed to register all significant minorities'
- David Meara: 'Fleet Street is a deserted village, full of ghosts and memories'
- Armatya Sen: 'There is more to democracy than our Western form'
- Peter Mandelson: 'We have to address the needs of the losers in Europe'
- Hossein Bagher Zadeh: 'The Iranian people have called for democratic change'
- Alistair Darling: 'No other country in the world has road pricing'
- Malcolm Rifkind: 'Winning back the centre ground is a necessity'
- Bashar Al-Assad: 'Our enemies aim at the destruction of Arab identity'
- Condoleezza Rice: 'Economic liberty is the only road to lasting success'
- Ralph Steadman: 'As a satirist with a bus pass, I wish to travel free as the air'
- David Willetts: 'We have to stop bossing people around'
- John Howard: 'The most blemished chapter in the history of this country'
- Dame Denise Platt: 'The life chances of looked-after children have not impoved'
- Jonathan Sacks: 'Society is not a house or a hotel it should be a home'
- John Edwards: 'Some want us to ignore those who struggle in the world'
- Irene Khan: 'The US has weakened its authority to speak out on human rights'
- Ray Anderson: 'Protecting the Earth's biosphere is good for business'
- Hans-Heinrich Wrede: 'Gender equality is essential to African development'
- Peter Mandelson: 'Europe can give new markets to Israel and Palestine'
- Lord Winston: 'Commercial activity changes the ownership of science'
- Condoleezza Rice: 'The President's heart aches to see people in need'
- Miriam Mhango: 'I want all girls to have the opportunities that I have'
- Brendan Barber: 'New Orleans shows a society where the market reigns'
- Amre Moussa: 'We believe terrorism bears no nationality or religion'
- Liam Fox: 'We must recapture the wealth creation agenda'
- Chris Davies: 'This is not a party of xenophobes and Little Englanders'
- Vernon Bogdanor: 'Proportional representation has been called charitable giving'
- Paul Wolfowitz: 'Sustained economic growth is essential for development'
- Helena Kennedy: 'Government should not read fear as a blank cheque'
- Rowan Williams: The gap between 'democracy' and reality in Iraq
- Francis Maude: 'Our party has no God-given right to succeed'
- Jim Knight: 'Climate change is real and happening now'
- Charlie McCreevy: 'Europe must make more of the online music revolution'
- Paul Judge: 'So how do you think you are going to die?
- A C Grayling: 'The notion of human rights needs to be better understood'
- Shami Chakrabarti: 'An open liberal society is not an amoral one'
- John Bolton: 'Enlarging the Security Council would weaken it'
- David Lammy: 'Every young person has the right to develop their creativity'
- Lord Steyn: 'Don't blame judges for half-baked criminal legislation'
- Christine Lagarde: 'Trade liberalisation should safeguard agriculture'
- David Green: 'Cultural relations are tools for building a stable world'
- Paddy Ashdown: 'My objective is to put the country on course to statehood'
- Irshad Manji: 'When we sanctify cultures, we get group-think'
- Charles Saumarez Smith: 'Cultural institutions are good for any city's economy'