GM found that when you ask for government help, you'd better be careful - you might get what you wish for, and our guys have a track record of losing negotiations.

The recent, less-than-informed coverage of the death of Benazir Bhutto reminds us of Neville Chamberlain's infamous comment about Czechsolovakia as " a faraway country about which we know nothing."

It's the teddy bear being insulted, by being given such a disreputable name.

Leaders know that there's nothing as disruptive as information.

What does Mr. Gates plan to do with all the extra people that won't die from malaria now that his foundation has found a cure?

The Romans understood nation building, an art we and the British have forgotten.