Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.
What's now urgently needed [to stop environmental disaster] is the international political commitment to take action to avoid dangerous climate change.
One of the jewels in the crown of Labour's time in office was the rescue of the National Health Service. As the Commonwealth Fund, the London School of Economics and the Nuffield Foundation have all shown, health reforms as well as additional investment were essential to improved outcomes, especially for poorer patients.
The problems that the world faces - from nuclear proliferation to climate change - can't be tackled by the West alone. They need a coalition of not just West and East, but they need a coalition of Christian and Jew and Muslim.
The window of opportunity to avoid dangerous climate change is closing more quickly than previously thought.
Essentially, by 2050 we need all activities outside agriculture to be near zero carbon emitting if we are to stop carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere growing
First, climate change is the greatest long-term threat faced by humanity. It could cause more human and financial suffering than the two world wars and the great depression put together. All countries will be affected, but the poorest countries will be hit hardest. Secondly, the costs of inaction far outweigh the costs of action
When we took over the economy, we were losing 800 thousand jobs a month under the [George W. ] Bush administration.
A grandma is old on the outside and young on the inside.
I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.
A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.