Elie Wiesel is a Romanian Jew who survived Hitler’s concentration camps. He became a respected writer and campaigner against genocide and global injustices. In 1999 he spoke at the White House reflecting on the passing century. In a powerful and touching speech drawing from his own experiences, he confronted the ‘perils of indifference’ towards suffering.
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Jacques Chirac is being tried on charges of corruption, but, with his mental health in decline one wonders whether he will really be punished for his wrongdoing. Is this just another in a series of show trials for errant heads of state? Will justice be done, or just seen to be done?
President Nixon campaigned on a promise to bring an “honourable end” to the Vietnam War. Nine months into office the antiwar movement was gaining momentum and troops had yet to come home. Nixon addressed the nation to outline his plans and appeal to the ‘silent majority’ of Americans to support him.
Americans have admired the works of French Impressionist artists for over a hundred years, but what explains this century-long love affair?
Yann Martel’s Life of Pi is a touching story about a young Indian boy and tiger stranded on a boat. Through Pi’s adventures, we discover life in India, growing up in the original environment of a zoo, and how to survive with a tiger whilst being lost at sea.
Nine days after Geoffrey Howe gave his resignation speech to a packed House of Commons, the Prime Minister he had served so dutifully for over a decade resigned in one of the most dramatic moments in modern British political history.