The history of ideas is littered with the corpses of those who have tried to define culture. Giles Foden Read Quote
At school, I got into the whole CB thing, hiding a transceiver in my study-bedroom with which I’d make appointments to meet girls in town. I wasn’t good enough at physics to take it much further than fun, but I suppose there was a need to communicate. Giles Foden Read Quote
I spent my childhood tinkering with electronic circuits, on breadboards, as they used to be called, in particular making radio transmitters. Giles Foden Read Quote
Foreign students add cultural value to their British peers, who need an international outlook. Giles Foden Read Quote
The forgiveness that comes of patient interpretation seems impossible when those nearest to your heart are threatened. Giles Foden Read Quote
In any culture, if information is to maximise in a contextual space, and new meanings be born, the original story has to have substance – there’s gotta be gold in them thar hills. Giles Foden Read Quote
The search for inventive ways of telling the tale of Christ’s birth has been going on a long time; in a way, difference was there from the start with Luke and Matthew. Giles Foden Read Quote
I grew up in the African bush in Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda, which is my thing. I love the smell of the dust as you bump along in a Land-Rover. I go back there often. Giles Foden Read Quote
You can gesture at the transnational problem of Islamist terrorism all you like, but it’s just hot air unless you invest in proper security on the ground in your own country, with the right safeguards to civil liberties. Giles Foden Read Quote
