Podium
Michael Savory: 'The police benefit from the expertise of insurance brokers'
Published: 28 October 2005
From a speech by the Lord Mayor of London to the annual Dragon Awards Dinner, held at the Mansion House in the City of London
Charles Saumarez Smith: 'Cultural institutions are good for any city's economy'
Published: 27 October 2005
From a speech by the President of the Museums Association and the Director of the National Gallery given in London
Irshad Manji: 'When we sanctify cultures, we get group-think'
Published: 26 October 2005
From a contribution by the author and broadcaster to a discussion on 'Notions of Identity in a Multicultural Society', held at the Canadian High Commission in London
Paddy Ashdown: 'My objective is to put the country on course to statehood'
Published: 25 October 2005
From a speech by the High Representative to Bosnia and Herzegovina, given at a conference on its future, held in Geneva
David Green: 'Cultural relations are tools for building a stable world'
Published: 24 October 2005
From a speech by the director general of the British Council, on receiving the Prince of Asturias award for cultural relations, in Oviedo, Spain
Elizabeth Corrie: 'Investors can act to prevent civilian suffering'
Published: 21 October 2005
Extracted from a speech delivered to a War on Want public meeting at the House of Commons by the American teacher and activist
Christine Lagarde: 'Trade liberalisation should safeguard agriculture'
Published: 20 October 2005
From a speech by French Foreign Minister for External Trade, delivered at the London School of Economics
Lord Steyn: 'Don't blame judges for half-baked criminal legislation'
Published: 19 October 2005
From a speech by the former Law Lord upon his appointment as chairman of the Council of Justice, delivered in London
David Lammy: 'Every young person has the right to develop their creativity'
Published: 18 October 2005
From a speech by the minister for Culture, on the launch of the national young people's arts awards, given at the Royal Opera House, in London
John Bolton: 'Enlarging the Security Council would weaken it'
Published: 17 October 2005
From a talk on reform of the United Nations given at Chatham House by the US ambassador to the UN
Shami Chakrabarti: 'An open liberal society is not an amoral one'
Published: 14 October 2005
From the Fifth Annual Hands Lecture by the director of Liberty, given in Oxford
Prince Charles: 'Why I have been proved right about alternative medicines'
Published: 13 October 2005
From a speech by the Prince of Wales to the Foundation for Integrated Health
A C Grayling: 'The notion of human rights needs to be better understood'
Published: 12 October 2005
From the British Institute for Human Rights lecture by the Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London
Paul Judge: 'So how do you think you are going to die?
Published: 11 October 2005
From the inaugural lecture by the new chairman of the Royal Society of Arts, given in London
Charlie McCreevy: 'Europe must make more of the online music revolution'
Published: 10 October 2005
From a speech in London on music licensing and the creative economy by the European Commissioner for the Internal Market
Jim Knight: 'Climate change is real and happening now'
Published: 07 October 2005
From a speech by the Minister for Rural Affairs, Landscape and Biodiversity to a meeting of EU Nature Directors in Aviemore, Scotland
Michael Mainelli: 'What do we mean when we talk about the free market?'
Published: 06 October 2005
From a lecture by the executive chairman of Z/Yen Limited, given at Gresham College in the City of London
Trevor Phillips: 'A new highway code for multi-ethnic Britain'
Published: 05 October 2005
From a speech by the chair of the Commission for Racial Equality to the Conservative Party Muslim Forum in Blackpool
Francis Maude: 'Our party has no God-given right to succeed'
Published: 04 October 2005
From a speech to the Conservative Party conference by the Tory chairman
Rowan Williams: The gap between 'democracy' and reality in Iraq
Published: 03 October 2005
From the David Nicholls Memorial Lecture given by the Archbishop of Canterbury at the University Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Oxford
David Davis: 'I lived on a council estate, but life wasn't bad'
Published: 30 September 2005
From a statement by the shadow Home Secretary, launching his campaign for the leadership of the Conservative Party, delivered in Westminster
Helena Kennedy: 'Government should not read fear as a blank cheque'
Published: 29 September 2005
From the keynote speech by the human rights lawyer to the Commonwealth Law Conference, at the Queen Elizabeth Centre in Westminster
Charles Clarke: 'We must eliminate the disrespect that blights lives'
Published: 28 September 2005
From a speech by the Home Secretary to the Labour Party Conference in Brighton
Paul Wolfowitz: 'Sustained economic growth is essential for development'
Published: 27 September 2005
From an address by the President of the World Bank to the annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, held in Washington DC
Judith Butler: 'Holocaust analogies demean Palestinian suffering'
Published: 26 September 2005
From a lecture given by the philosopher from the University of California, Berkeley, at the 'Holocaustal Premises' discussion at the University of London
