“Americans have been fed… a diet of ludicrous untruths: that the astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, for instance, would have been abandoned to die of his motor neurone disease had he been unfortunate enough to live in Britain. (He does.)”
on US healthcare reform
“This is an accident… that has the potential to be almost as devastating for Russia as the 1986 disaster at Chernobyl was for the Soviet Union.”
, London, on the explosion and flood on 17 August at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power plant in Siberia
“Unless citizens themselves become inconvenient, the truth will remain a minor consideration.”…
