China’s most famous teacher, philosopher, and political theorist (551-479 BC) is, of course, not still here to advise the Canadian prime minister on how to react to this country’s embarrassing failure to come anywhere close to meeting it’s Kyoto commitments. Fortunately, however, Confucius left some all-purpose aphorisms that might offer Harper wisdom. In this case:
โWhen it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the actionย steps.โย
Campaigners have raised โserious concernsโ about the broadcaster promoting a regime that is a โproven killer of journalistsโ.
โI had to decide if this was really a career I wanted to dedicate my life to. The obvious and unavoidable answer was no.โ
One of Farageโs top advisors rubbed shoulders with a far-right Estonian politician who has said โif youโre black, go backโ.
Ofgem has rejected calls for household energy debts to be paid off using excess profits.
