Allowing valuable SOUND recordings to pass into the PUBLIC domain does not create a public asset: it REPRESENTS a massive DESTRUCTION of U.K. wealth and a significant loss to the U.K. taxpayer.
Read MoreI am an enthusiastic European, and my first-hand EXPERIENCE of WAR and hatred has strengthened that CONVICTION. I have seen how misguided unilateral nationalistic identities have brought destruction and death. I am, however, a world citizen, too.
Read MoreI don't think we're crumbling as a CIVILIZATION, but this is not our finest hour, and it's good to be mindful that we're all susceptible to fall and to look at what are the earmarks of a civilization on the wane. What are they - destruction of the ENVIRONMENT? Conspicuous CONSUMPTION? HEARD of those?
Read MoreI believe that we, EVERY DAY, 24-7, all the days of our LIVES, we are, all of us, agents of CONSTRUCTION and agents of destruction.
Read MoreJust as the SECURITY Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last HALF of the twentieth century - FREEDOM against COMMUNISM - so too it is largely on the sidelines in our contemporary struggles against international terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of MASS destruction.
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