This damaging and hateful debate
I pitch this city across Canada, and when I make that pitch, it may surprise you to know, I always get the same question. And I bet that question is …
The Profit Motive vs. the Aims of Art
Thank you Neil, and to the givers of this beautiful reward, my thanks from the heart. My family, my agent, editors, know that my being here is their doing as …
Not just whether our economies grow, but how they grow
Thank you so much. Xiàwǔ hǎo. Thank you, Andrew, for that introduction. I have had the pleasure of getting to know Andrew very well these past few years. We have …
This Old Man
Paul Keating said the reward for public life is public progress. For one born estranged from the nation’s citizenship, into a humble family of a marginal people striving in the …
How speechwriting changed me
On an October morning – three years ago, almost to the day – I entered a red-brick office building: a large, four-storey government building. It was a normal, cloudy day, …
How can we not be involved?
Thank you, Brother Mike [Louis], for that warm introduction, and I want to thank you for inviting me to your convention. It’s great to be here in St. Louis—and I’m …
“Keep your mitts off my NHS”
I came into this world in the rough and ready year of 1923. I am from Barnsley and I can tell you, that my childhood like so many others from …