33,203 source-backed world facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 329 of 333.
“A report from the Women’s Unit published on 21 February showed that women not only lose out financially for being women, but are additionally penalised for being mothers.”
“An on-going study by psychologists at the University of Kent, looking at how women’s attitudes to work change after they become mothers, found a marked shift between the first and second child.”
“‘The majority of women intend to go back to work after their first child is born,’ explains Diane Houston, ‘and they are carrying out that intention, even if their views and feelings about work change once the baby actually arrives. But th…”
“Despite 25 years of so-called equal opportunities, raising families is still widely regarded as women’s work, and still comes with huge costs attached.”
“The Church of England is not in itself a democracy, but it has embraced liberal democratic values in which it cannot make a definitive statement about much, even (it seems) about the revelation of faith.”
“Cardinal Thomas Winning will find support from Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, the newly appointed Archbishop of Westminster, leader of Britain's four million Catholics.”
“True, there are some eccentric bursts of anti-Catholic prejudice, such as when the deputy chairman of Rangers, at a private function last year, sang 'The sash my father wore', a celebration of the defeat of the Catholic forces at the Battl…”
“In a second speech at Chelmsford, Carey endorsed the argument – made by Francis Fukuyama in his most recent book, The Great Disruption – that (as Fukuyama writes) 'instead of community arising as a by-product of religious belief, people wi…”
“The most vigorous Protestant group in the UK is the Church headed by Dr Ian Paisley, which thrives on a roaring hatred of Catholicism.”
“Cardinal Thomas Winning is the best-known prelate in Scotland, latterly because of his unswerving opposition to scrapping Clause 28 – a campaign he shares with Brian Souter, the founder and boss of the bus line Stagecoach, who is a member …”
“In a more civilised vein, the composer James MacMillan used an address at last summer’s Edinburgh Festival to claim that Catholicism was still the object of discrimination in Scotland.”
“In a recent article in the Sunday Times on the forthcoming National Gallery exhibition, 'Seeing Salvation: the Image of Christ', Brian Appleyard wrote that 'we have no choice but to start from here' – here being the centrality of Christian…”
“half of urban pedestrian deaths occur”
“statistically safe speed of 20mph”
“not exceed 20mph”
“just three minutes on the average journey to work”
“raise the limit to 75 or 80mph”
“With a population of 36,000, Ko Samui is Thailand’s third-largest island.”
“Every month, the number of punters doubles for the event”
“An estimated 10,000 people walk the Pennine Way each year”
“another 4,000 walk the St Cuthbert’s Way from Melrose to Holy Island, by way of Harestanes, Morebattle and Kirk Yetholm”
“if you are a member of, say, the SYHA, you can stay in other association’s hostels across the world”
“it was only about 150 years ago that it became recognisable as the sport we know today.”
“St Andrews’ population of around 13,000”
“ten miles south of St Andrews”
“In 1900, the town had three golf courses”
“just three miles from the town centre”
“520 acres of coastal farmland”
“230-room hotel”
““It had taken me five years to get agreement to make the programme””
“Gay News closed down in 1983”
“acquired twin babies from a surrogate mother in the US”
“to get two men’s names on a birth certificate”
“Peter Thomson, the minister of the Anglican Church of Australia whom he met at Oxford”
“He still prays every day.”
“And, last year, he took a book on theology as part of his Tuscan holiday reading.”
“Because the government says he must, my dad sends two calves to the furnace every week.”
“There’s going to be an avalanche of farms going bust,”
“After 60 years, the family farm, which was started by my grandfather and was to be continued by my brother, will be closed.”
“He knows the hundreds of villagers to whose doorsteps for 40 years, until two years ago when it became unprofitable, he delivered bottles of milk every morning.”
“In the US since 1996, 27 states have passed legislation allowing for individual development accounts (Idas)”
“and more than 150 such schemes are now running.”
“the end of January”
“just £5 for full “Chinese””
“everyone’s charging the same – a fiver.”
“all after a piece of the million-dollar cuddles scene.”
“Cocaine Train” (Little, Brown £17).”
“Fifteen years after Money was published”
“a quintessential Davos moment, one that captured both the best and the worst of this 30th annual gathering of the rich and the influential.”
“Yet, in contrast with the battle of Seattle at the World Trade Organisation meeting in December, the demonstrations at Davos failed to disrupt the conference’s agenda significantly.”
“Ernesto Zedillo, president of Mexico, thundered back that some in the west seemed “determined to save developing countries from development”.”
“many of their favourite issues – from the environment to third-world health – featured prominently in the programme.”
“one of the most remarkable and unremarked aspects about the World Economic Forum is that it is not only a gathering of the west’s business and political superstars. Rather bizarrely, many of the globe’s poorer and more troubled nations hav…”
“A science for us all, not just for business Critics of genetically modified products have scored a major victory, thanks to an international agreement concluded in Montreal last weekend.”
“The "precautionary principle" is entrenched in the Convention on Biodiversity, the world wildlife treaty signed in 1992 at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, on which the whole idea of the Biosafety Protocol is based.”
“The classic formulation of the precautionary principle, freely available, is from the 1992 Climate Change Convention. There it is defined as "measures to anticipate, prevent or minimise [the] adverse effects" of scientific progress "where …”
“The definition even suggests that precautionary measures should be "cost-effective so as to ensure global benefits at the lowest possible cost".”
““WTO’s mantra of ‘trade first, think later’ has been subordinated to scientific research based on precautionary principle and reasonable management of risks,” says Andrew Simms, of the New Economic Foundation.”
“The rules of the WTO specify that unless "sound science" says it’s dangerous, then no country can refuse to accept it as an import.”
“nearly three years ago”
“Murray (70)”
“nearly a third of men aged between 20 and 35 are, in that phrase redolent of scrubbed ears and cold, corned-beef sandwiches, “still living with their parents””
“four years after we married”
“five minutes from the Halcyon”
“for about 12 years”
“40 pheasants”
“£12.99”
“Most recently, George Mitchell, the perennial broker of peace in the province, succeeded in getting enough agreement between the Ulster Unionist Party and Sinn Fein to allow the Northern Ireland Executive to grind into the nervy life it no…”
“Breakdown has been perennially forecast in the Northern Ireland peace process, and has never – since the Belfast, or Good Friday Agreement of April 1998 – happened.”
“those who claim to know the organisation best say there is an increasingly unambiguous struggle going on between the “democrats” – mainly Gerry Adams, the Sinn Fein president, and Martin McGuinness, now education minister”
“Keenan has said weapons will never be surrendered”
“Adams has referred to a “management problem” in the Sinn Fein and IRA leaderships.”
“A recruiting advertisement in the Sinn Fein paper An Phoblacht states that “Sinn Fein is dedicated to forcing British withdrawal from the occupied Six Counties”.”
“On 31 January, de Chastelaine is due to report.”
“He managed to convince his party council to back the formation of the executive with 58 per cent of the votes”
“He also believes, however, that Mandelson will not push him back into defeat at the [...] He thinks he is scoring well under 50 per cent now, after the RUC name change.”
“Trimble must face another Unionist council meeting on 12 February. He has already said he will resign as First Minister if no decommissioning has taken place by then.”
“His predecessor, Mo Mowlam – now an apparently unhappy Cabinet Office minister”
“Jim Wallace introduces the executive’s Millbankian plan to reduce the homosexual age of consent to 16”
“This year marks the 250th anniversary of his birth”
“the poet Robert Fergusson who died in 1774”
“At 24, he was just beginning to flower as a poet.”
“But, in 1772, Fergusson reverted to his native Scots”
“for two astonishing years he produced one brilliant poem after another”
“In August, the Edinburgh International Book Festival is holding a special Fergusson event”
“This, surely, is closer to the truth. Fergusson’s Edinburgh was not the geometrically rigid and meticulously planned New Town, but the ill-lit, libidinous and haphazard precincts which rose to the east of Castle Rock. It was a smelly city,…”
“In the 18th century, the Old Town boasted countless bars that stayed open until the last customer had left.”
“Burns’s arrival on the scene in the mid-1780s was sensational.”
“Like Fergusson, he was at his best when writing in Scots.”
“As Samuel Johnson told James Boswell, as they made their way up the Royal Mile: “I can smell you in the dark.””
“In 1994 most households could receive two state channels”
“Now, on a Saturday night we can choose between nearly 20 channels”
“The number of cars in the city has increased tenfold in the past ten years”
“The average German now earns around ten times more than his Hungarian counterpart”
“a TV crew turned up to film them last year.”
“at least one national newspaper editor”
“The interview was published three days later, in last week’s NS.”
“On the afternoon of Tuesday 11 January, Robert Winston and I met at the Lords.”
“Over an hour and a quarter, Lord Winston rarely deviated from his central theme.”
“He faces an influx of immigrants and asylum-seekers that, encouraged by relatively liberal laws and by relatively generous state benefits, is greater than to any other European state.”
