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/ 20 February 2003

Left should not weep if Saddam is toppled

As politicians and policymakers gathered at 10 Downing Street in February for the first of a series of meetings ahead of the progressive governance conference in July, attention was focused on the possibility of conflict in Iraq. Centre-left politics must be redefined to cope with a more insecure world, said British Prime Minister Tony Blair

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/ 23 March 2001

On the verge of corporate nirvana

#David McKay Brian Gilbertson, chair of Billiton, collects clocks. Isn’t that odd as well as intriguing? Odd because Gilbertson is renowned in mining circles for the more outward shows of his material success: the ostentatious commuting to and from his Johannesburg office by helicopter, the Porsche apparently permanently on display in an underground bay at […]