Lectures

Jeffrey Sachs is giving a series of lectures on the BBC giving his take on the world. The audience was mostly non-plussed, including Sir Christopher Mayer and a woman from GlaxoSmithKlein but Geri Halliwell and another young woman who said she was an 'optimist' are obviously devoted.

He says it's all about Choice. I like the idea that there are people who are powerful or friends with people who are powerful who think with gusto and make new connections between people and between people and places, rather than just shrug their shoulders because of corruption, donor fatigue and the way it's always been. People in the audience asked again and again 'But how...?' and although they're right, where's the passion?

The next lecture will be broadcast from China but today's lecture is from the Royal Society

The UK's The Independent featured a reaction which also makes interesting reading.