Podium
Francis Maude: 'Reform does not need to depend on one party alone'
Published: 02 December 2005
From the Politeia Autumn Address, delivered by the chairman of the Conservative Party, at the headquarters of the think tank, in London
Robert May: 'The core values of science are under threat'
Published: 01 December 2005
From an annual address to the Royal Society, entitled Threats to Tomorrow's World, by the society's president
Velupillai Prabhakaran: 'Our people are not prepared to be tolerant any longer'
Published: 30 November 2005
From the annual Heroes Day speech by the leader of the Tamil Tigers, broadcast on the Voice of Tigers radio
Howard Davies: 'Central bankers are no longer thought of as sorcerers'
Published: 29 November 2005
From a speech on the future of central banks, given by the director of the London School of Economics, at the Hong Kong Theatre of the LSE, in London
Will Self: 'The soggy wafer of meekness is backed up by air strikes'
Published: 28 November 2005
From the Richard Price Memorial Lecture, given by the author and journalist, at Newington Green Unitarian Church, in London
Bashar Al-Asad: 'They want us without a memory, so they can plan our future'
Published: 25 November 2005
From a speech by the President of Syria, delivered to the students of Damascus University
Victor Yushchenko: 'Our first task is to fight corruption in government'
Published: 24 November 2005
From a speech by the president of Ukraine, given on the first anniversary of the Orange Revolution, in Independence Square, Kiev
Patriarch Bartholemew: 'A creative dynamic can enrich both church and state'
Published: 23 November 2005
From a speech by the Archbishop of Constantinople for the London Hellenic Society, delivered at the London School of Economics
Michael Heseltine: 'Falls from grace are preceded by a blindness to new realities'
Published: 22 November 2005
From the 12th Annual Marketors' Lecture, given by the publisher and politician, at the Cass Business School in London
George Bush: 'We will stay until we have achieved victory'
Published: 21 November 2005
From an address made at Osan Air Base in South Korea, by the US President
Ruth Kelly: 'No one wants to create independent fortresses'
Published: 18 November 2005
From a speech by the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, delivered to the New Heads Conference, meeting in London
Sir Ian Blair: 'The public must decide what sort of police it wants'
Published: 17 November 2005
From the 30th Richard Dimbleby Lecture by the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police at St Leonard's Church in Shoreditch, east London
Paul Hunt: 'This perverse healthcare subsidy flows from poor to rich countries'
Published: 16 November 2005
From a presentation by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to health care, given to the General Assembly, in New York
Conor Gearty: 'To work its moral magic, human rights need certainty'
Published: 15 November 2005
From a Hamlyn lecture, given by the Rausing Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights, at the London School of Economics
Maleeha Lodhi: 'Pakistan needs the support of the international community'
Published: 14 November 2005
From a speech by the High Commissioner of Pakistan, given to an invited audience at the High Commission, London
Jon Snow: 'What I knew of war was wrapped up in Little Grey Rabbit'
Published: 11 November 2005
From a British Institute of Human Rights lunchtime lecture by the television journalist, given at Somerset House, London
Josep Borrell: 'The EU Constitution will not go away; we will return to it'
Published: 10 November 2005
From an address by the President of the European Parliament, delivered at Chatham House in London
Saskia Sassen: 'Global firms and markets don't want just one global city'
Published: 09 November 2005
From a lecture by the Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago, delivered at the London School of Economics
Luis Inacio Lula da Silva: 'We defend our national interests and our political values'
Published: 08 November 2005
From a speech by the President of Brazil, in the presence of the President of the United States, delivered in Brazilia
Jonas Gahr Støre: 'Arctic energy supply is replacing the Cold War agenda'
Published: 07 November 2005
From a lecture by Norway's Minister of Foreign Affairs, given at the London School of Economics
Albie Sachs: 'There are different ways to reach the truth'
Published: 04 November 2005
From the inaugural National Archives Lecture, given in London by the South African Constitutional Court judge
Isabel Hilton: 'China is using soft power to smooth her way'
Published: 02 November 2005
From a contribution by the author and journalist to an Intelligence Squared debate on the rise of China, at the Royal Geographical Society, London
Rowan Williams: 'It is not death itself that should be the focus of fear'
Published: 02 November 2005
From the sermon by the Archbishop of Canterbury at St Paul's Cathedral yesterday to commemorate the victims of the July 7 bombings in London
Sureyya Serdengecti: 'Turkish membership would increase EU global power'
Published: 01 November 2005
From a lecture by the governor of the Central Bank of Turkey, delivered at the London School of Economics
Bert Massie: 'Risk must not be used as a bar to the disabled'
Published: 31 October 2005
From the Duncan Guthrie Memorial Lecture by the Chairman of the Disability Rights Commission
