第1篇 倫敦主教在威廉王子婚禮上英語演講稿
the bishop of london's sermon
29th april 2022
倫敦主教在威廉王子婚禮上的布道詞
2022年4月29日
“be who god meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.” so said st catherine of siena whose festival day it is today. marriage is intended to be a way in which man and woman help each other to become what god meant each one to be, their deepest and truest selves.
“成為遵循上帝旨意的人，你就會激勵這個世界。”圣.凱瑟琳錫耶納說到。婚姻應(yīng)該是男人和女人相互幫助成為遵循上帝旨意的人，回歸最深入、最真實的自我。
many are full of fear for the future of the prospects of our world but the message of the celebrations in this country and far beyond its shores is the right one – this is a joyful day! it is good that people in every continent are able to share in these celebrations because this is, as every wedding day should be, a day of hope.
很多人對我們這個世界未來的前景非?？謶?，但在這個國家以及那些遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)超越其國界的地方傳遞出的這個慶賀的信息是正確的——這是一個令人歡欣的日子!在每一塊陸地上的人們都能夠一起慶賀，這很好，因為每一個婚禮的日子都應(yīng)該是一個充滿希望的日子。
in a sense every wedding is a royal wedding with the bride and the groom as king and queen of creation, making a new life together so that life can flow through them into the future.
從某種意義上說，每一個婚禮都是王室婚禮，作為造物主的國王和王后，新郎和新娘共同創(chuàng)造新的生活，讓生命通過他們延續(xù)到未來。
william and catherine, you have chosen to be married in the sight of a generous god who so loved the world that he gave himself to us in the person of jesus christ.
威廉和凱瑟琳，你們選擇了在仁慈的上帝面前結(jié)婚，他對這個世界是如此的慈愛，以至于通過耶穌.基督這個人把他自己給予了我們。
and in the spirit of this generous god, husband and wife are to give themselves to each another.
在這個仁慈上帝的精神下，夫妻將把自己奉獻(xiàn)給彼此。
a spiritual life grows as love finds its centre beyond ourselves. faithful and committed relationships offer a door into the mystery of spiritual life in which we discover this; the more we give of self, the richer we become in soul; the more we go beyond ourselves in love, the more we become our true selves and our spiritual beauty is more fully revealed. in marriage we are seeking to bring one another into fuller life.
當(dāng)愛情在自我之外找到它的中心點時，精神生活才會成長。建立在忠實和承諾基礎(chǔ)上的關(guān)系為神秘的精神生活打開一一扇門，在其中我們會發(fā)現(xiàn)，我們越多的奉獻(xiàn)自我，在靈魂上我們就越富有;在愛情上我們越多的超越自我，我們就會變得更接近真實的自我，我們的精神之美就會更多地顯現(xiàn)出來。在婚姻中，我們追求帶給彼此更完善的生活。
it is of course very hard to wean ourselves away from self-centredness. and people can dream of doing such a thing but the hope should be fulfilled it is necessary a solemn decision that, whatever the difficulties, we are committed to the way of generous love.
當(dāng)然，一下子改變自我為中心是很難。人們可以夢想著這樣做，但應(yīng)該履行這樣的希望 - 這是一個莊嚴(yán)的決定，不論是什么困難，我們已承諾要彼此仁慈地相愛。
you have both made your decision today – “i will” – and by making this new relationship, you have aligned yourselves with what we believe is the way in which life is spiritually evolving, and which will lead to a creative future for the human race.
今天你們兩人都做出了“我愿意”這個決定，通過建立這個新的關(guān)系，你們讓自己與我們所相信的保持一致 - 生命是精神的成長，將會為人類帶來一個有創(chuàng)意的未來。
we stand looking forward to a century which is full of promise and full of peril. human beings are confronting the question of how to use wisely a power that has been given to us through the discoveries of the last century. we shall not be converted to the promise of the future by more knowledge, but rather by an increase of loving wisdom and reverence, for life, for the earth and for one another.
我們共同期待著一個既充滿希望又充滿危險的世紀(jì)，通過上個世紀(jì)的發(fā)現(xiàn)，人類面臨著如何智慧的運用賦予我們手中權(quán)力的問題，我們不會靠更多的知識而轉(zhuǎn)變成未來的希望，而是通過對生命、大地、以及彼此的愛的智慧和崇敬。
marriage should transform, as husband and wife make one another their work of art. it is possible to transform as long as we do not harbour ambitions to reform our partner. there must be no coercion if the spirit is to flow; each must give the other space and freedom. chaucer, the london poet, sums it up in a pithy phrase:
婚姻是應(yīng)該令人改變的，只要這種改變是建立在夫妻將對方成為自己的藝術(shù)作品?；橐鍪强梢愿淖兊娜说?，只要我們不要有去改造對方的雄心。精神的成長絕對不是靠強制，每個人必須給予對方空間和自由。倫敦的詩人喬叟，在詩中寫道：
“whan maistrie [mastery] comth, the god of love anon,
beteth his wynges, and farewell, he is gon.”
as the reality of god has faded from so many lives in the west, there has been a corresponding inflation of e_pectations that personal relations alone will supply meaning and happiness in life. this is to load our partner with too great a burden. we are all incomplete: we all need the love which is secure, rather than oppressive, we need mutual forgiveness, to thrive.
由于在西方很多人淡忘了上帝這樣的現(xiàn)實，從而產(chǎn)生了對兩性關(guān)系相應(yīng)膨脹的期望，希望兩性關(guān)系能提供生活的意義與幸福。這會給我們的伴侶帶來巨大的負(fù)擔(dān)。我們都不完整：我們都需要安全而不是壓抑的愛，我們需要相互寬恕，共同成長。
as we move towards our partner in love, following the e_ample of jesus christ, the holy spirit is quickened within us and can increasingly fill our lives with light. this leads to a family life which offers the best conditions in which the ne_t generation can practise and e_change those gifts which can overcome fear and division and incubate the coming world of the spirit, whose fruits are love and joy and peace.
遵循著耶穌.基督的榜樣，當(dāng)我們心懷仁慈走向我們的伴侶時，圣靈在我們之中增長，我們的生活會越來越充滿光明。這會為下一代提供最佳的家庭生活條件，在這種條件下，下一代能夠訓(xùn)練和交換那些能夠克服恐懼和才能，并培養(yǎng)未來世界的精神，這精神成果是愛、歡樂與和平。
i pray that all of us present and the many millions watching this ceremony and sharing in your joy today, will do everything in our power to support and uphold you in your new life. and i pray that god will bless you in the way of life that you have chosen, that way which is e_pressed in the prayer that you have composed together in preparation for this day:
我祈禱今天所有在場的以及觀看今天儀式并分享歡樂的億萬人民，都能盡其所能支持你們的新生活。我也祈禱上帝能夠保佑你們，使你們所選擇的生活正如你們之前寫下的祈禱一樣美滿：
god our father, we thank you for our families; for the love that we share and for the joy of our marriage.
我們的天父，我們感謝您賜予我們彼此的家庭，相互的愛情以及幸福的婚姻。
in the busyness of each day keep our eyes fi_ed on what is real and important in life and help us to be generous with our time and love and energy.
讓我們在忙碌的每一天中，將目光放在生命里真實而重要的事情上，指引我們奉獻(xiàn)我們的時間、愛與能量。
strengthened by our union help us to serve and comfort those who suffer. we ask this in the spirit of jesus christ. amen.
讓我們結(jié)合并增強力量，指引我們?nèi)シ?wù)與安慰那些受苦的人。我們以耶穌基督的精神祈禱。阿門。
第2篇 倫敦市長鮑里斯·約翰遜在2022英國保守黨年會英語演講稿
good morning everyone. good god …good morning everybody, thank you very much.please, please take your seats,we’ve got a lot to get through. good morning everybody inmanchester, it’s agreat joy to be back here. not so long ago my friends i…we welcome all sortsofwonderful luminaries to city hall but not so long ago i welcomed the formerfrench primeminister, monsieur alain juppe to my office in city hall and hecruised in with his sizeableretinue of very distinguished fellows with theirlegion d’honneur floret and all the rest of it andwe shook hands and had atête a tête and he told me that he was now the mayor of bordeau_. ithink hemay have been mayor of bordeau_ when he was prime minister, it’s the kind ofthingthey do in france – a very good idea in my view. joke, joke, joke! andwhat he said … joke! hesaid that he had the honour of representing, he had239,517 people in bordeau_ and thereforehe had the honour of representing the9th biggest city in france. i got the ball back very firmlyover the net,folks, because i said there were 250,000 french men and women in londonandtherefore i was the mayor of the 6th biggest french city on earth.
i can’t remember e_actly what hesaid then, i think he said something like ‘tiens!’ or ‘bienje jamais’ orsomething, but it is one of the joys of this job that i am the mayor of aprettysizeable french city, a pretty sizeable russian city, a pretty bigaustralian city, an italian city, achinese city – i could go on. that is agreat thing about london, it’s a good thing for ourcountry because thatforeign money brings jobs and it fills our restaurants and it puts bums ontheseats of our theatres, helps finance our universities very considerably and itenables londondevelopers, some of whom i see in this great audience, to embarkon project that otherwisewould be stalled. am i right? yes. and it brings abuzz of e_citement to the city which also ofcourse attracts investors and yet wehave to recognise that the sheer global charisma oflondon is putting pressureon londoners, with average house prices in our city now si_ timesaverageearnings and for the bottom 25% of earners, the house prices in the bottomquarter arenine times their earnings.
the pressure is really growingand it is intensifying thanks to an entirely home grownphenomenon to which ialluded at the end of the olympic and paralympic games which tookplace lastyear because you may dimly remember that i prophesied that the athletes thatteamgp and paralympics gb had so moved the people of this country to suchparo_ysms ofe_citement, i think i said, on the sofas of britain that they hadnot only inspired a generationbut probably helped to create one as well and likeall my predictions and promises as your mayoror as the mayor of many of youhere, i have delivered mes amis, in that gla economics now saythat live birthsin london this year will be 136,942 which is more than in any year since1966when england won the world cup – and the prime minister was born i think.
i look around this audience –that means the population is growing very fast and it is goingto hit ninemillion by 2022, possibly ten million by 2031 and i notice when i point thisout topeople that they start to look a bit worn. they’re the older generationand think, all these otherpeople’s children, what jobs are they going to do,where are they going to live and will they bestepping on my toes on the tube?i want to reassure you first of all that london has been herebefore, we hadnine million in 1911, i think we had nine million in 1939 and the second thing–for once i actually brought it with me thank goodness – the second thing isthat we have a plan.here it is, the 2022 vision, and it will ensure that wecreate a city in which no child is left behindor shut out and everybody has achance to make of their lives what they can.
step number one – and i seriouslycommend this document, it is entirely free on the glawebsite, written entirelyby me as well – step number one is to build more homes as i say. can ijust askthis audience, how many of you today here in manchester are lucky enough to beowneroccupiers? can i ask for a show of hands, is anybody here an owneroccupier? look, here we go.who is an owner occupier? there is no disgrace inthat, we believe in the property owningdemocracy and all that kind of thingbut we have to face the reality that for many, manymillions of people, foryoung people in london, for many members of our families, it is nowabsolutelyimpossible to get anywhere near to affording a home and that’s why it isabsolutelyvital that we get on with our programmes of accelerating housebuilding. we have done about55,000 – rick, how many have we done so far? 55,000so far, give or take it will be around100,000 over two terms.
we’ve put £3.6 billion of publicland to the use of so many of the good developers i seearound here, since maylast year when i was elected by the way, but we need to do more and weneed toaccelerate our programme of house building dramatically and i think that it istime thatwe considered allowing companies to make ta_-free loans to theiremployees to help them withthe cost of their rent deposit – how about that?brainy policy, no, put in for the budgetconsiderations. can i also ask myfriend the chancellor to look at the baleful effects of stampduty in londonand possibly elsewhere, which is called stamp duty for a reason becauseit’sstamping on the fingers of those who are trying to climb the property ladder.look backover the last century, when did conservatives, when did we win hugemajorities, when did wecarry the country overwhelmingly? it was in the 30s andthe 50s when we got behind hugeprogrammes of house building to give people inthis country the homes they deserve.
to make those homes possible ofcourse you have got to get on with putting in thetransport links, as i nevertire of telling you and we’ve not only cut delays by 40%, comrades,in londonsince i was elected, we have e_panded the capacity of the jubilee line by 25%,thevictoria line is now running at incredible 34 trains an hour – how many isthat per minute? it’smore than one ever two, that’s fantastic, more than oneevery two minutes. there’s no flies onthese guys! we’ve put air conditioningon a huge chunk of the network and we are going onapace and thanks to davidand to george and the wisdom of the conservative government, weare now ableto, we are now proceeding full bore with the biggest engineering project ineurope,a scheme that five years ago was just a line on a map that thecoalition was under pressure todrop when they came in and it is now a giganticsubterranean huge, huge caverns, concretecaverns being hewn out of the londonwhatever it is, clay or something. i should know that. aswe speak, as wespeak, beneath the streets of london are si_ colossal boring machinescalledada and phyllis and mary and elizabeth and victoria i think, i have got theirnames wrong,i can’t remember their names but they all have female names forsome reason and phyllis andada are coming in from the west and mary andelizabeth are going from the east, from thelimmo peninsula and they arechomping remorselessly through the london clay and they aregoing to meet somewherearound whitechapel for this ginormous convocation of worms – i don’tknow whatthey’ll do but it will absolutely terrific because the rail capacity of londonwill beincreased by 10% and we will have done cross rail, i confidentlypredict, as we did theolympics, on time and on budget. a fantastic e_ample ofwhat this country can do and acalling card that british business is now usingaround the world.
in my view and in the view ofthose who are now working on cross rail, what we should do isuse those worldclass skills that we’ve been accumulating in london, to get going beforewedisband them on the ne_t set of projects. i mean obviously cross rail 2, highspeed rail, newpower stations, solutions to our aviation capacity problem, sothat we have a logicalsequential infrastructure plan for our country and don’tdo what previous governments havedone and that is waste billions by stoppingand starting. i think we can do it, i am absolutelyconfident that we can doit. we can put in the homes, we can put in the transport links butthe questionthat we’ve got to ask ourselves, and this is where this speech gets tricky,thequestion we’ve got to ask ourselves is are young londoners always able andwilling to take upthe opportunities of the opportunity city that we’re tryingto create?
now, dave, i’ve made it a rule atthese conferences never to disagree with jamie oliverbecause the last time idid so i was put in a pen and pelted with pork pies by the media but theotherday he said something that made me gulp because he was complaining about theworkethic of young people these days, a bit like a daily telegraph editorial.he didn’t pull hispunches – and this is what he said, not me, so don’t throwthings at me – ‘it’s the british kidsparticularly, he said, i have never seenanything so wet behind the ears. i have mummy’sringing up for 23 year oldssaying my son is too tired for a 48 hour week, are you having alaugh?’ thecelebrity chef told good housekeeping. and he went on, i’m probably gettingmyselfin trouble even by quoting this but never mind, he went on: ‘i think oureuropean migrantfriends are much stronger, much tougher. if we didn’t haveany, all of our restaurants wouldclose tomorrow. there wouldn’t be any britsto replace them.’
now i can see looks of apoplectic… well, no i can’t really. where’s the apople_y? i can seelooks of sadacknowledgement, that’s what i can see, isn’t that right? i can see avaguedepressed look of recognition and i know and you know that there are millionsof britishkids and dynamic, young people who are as dynamic and go-getting andas motivated as anypotential millionaire, whatever he’s called, masterchef, ofcourse there are. but my question toyou is, what if jamie has a point? what ifhe has half a point or even a quarter of a point? doyou think he does? half apoint, quarter of a point? he’s on to something. he may have phrasedit in aprovocative way but he was saying something that i think resonates, right?okay, i’mgetting through this with difficulty.
if he has a point then we need tothink about what are the possible origins for thatdifference in motivationthat he claims to detect and we need to think about what we politiciansaredoing about it, don’t we? if it’s to do with welfare as some people claim itis, don’t we neediain duncan smith to get on with reforming that system andmaking sure you are always betteroff in work than out of it? and if it’s to dowith education, as some people claim it is, then don’twe need michael gove to geton with his heroic work to restoring rigor and realism to theclassroom andgetting away from the old ‘all must have prizes’ approach where all pupilsmustbe above average in maths – pay attention at the back there! – which is notpossible. if, asi’m sure we all think and as i certainly think, the problem isalso to do with the confidence andself-esteem of so many of these young peoplewithout which ambition is impossible, thenisn’t it our job as politicians todo everything we can to give them boundaries and solidity totheir lives?
that’s why i have spent a lot ofmy time as mayor on projects like the mayor’s fund forlondon and team londonand encouraging volunteers to read to kids across our city andmentoringprogrammes which we are e_panding and the support of the uniformed groups,thescouts, the guides, all those kinds of fantastic organisations, bringingsporting facilities toschools that don’t have any, mobile pools we’ve beensending around london, beautiful glorifiedsheep dips we send round, they loveit. they work brilliantly well and we’re helping to gettalented youngmusicians to cross that barrier that they confront when they reach the ageofeleven and have to go through into secondary school and so many of them give uptheirinstruments and it’s a real, real tragedy and we are setting up funds tohelp with creation ofe_cellence in our schools and to improve standards allround, to support the work that michaelgove is doing.
it’s when i look at the hugerange of projects that we’re engaged in now at city halltogether withhundreds, if not thousands of other projects, many of which are supportedbypeople in this room, i do think we are making a difference to the lives ofthose young peopleand we have got loads of them into apprenticeships, about118,000 over the last couple of years,we’re going to get on to 250,000 by 2022and thanks to the police, thanks very largely to theirwork, we are seeingsignificant falls in crime as jane was just saying. we have been big fallsinyouth violence and in the victims of knife crime which was such a plague, andcontinues to bea plague, on our streets. it makes my blood boil to read acasual quote from some labourfrontbench politician, it may even have been theshadow home secretary, comparing londonto rio di janeiro because we’ve notonly halved youth murders in the last five years, we’ve gotthe london murderrate down to levels not seen since the 1960s. you are not only 20 timesmorelikely to be murdered in rio as you are in london, four times more likely to bemurdered innew york, you are twice as likely to be murdered in brussels –sleepy old brussels – as you are inlondon. presumably with lobster picks.
london is in fact now the safestglobal city in the world and it is not just those crimes suchas murder andyouth violence that we are significantly reducing, it is all sorts of crime aswell.we’ve got fare evasion, fare evasion down on the buses to an all-time lowof 1.1%, whatever1.1% means, mainly thanks to getting rid of the bendy buses.that i think is the way forward.you’ve got to tackle that comple_ of problems,crime well frozen, educationalunderachievement and you’ve got to make surethat kids growing up in london are able to takeopportunity that our cityoffers and at the same time we must make sure they don’t dismisssome jobs asquote/unquote ‘menial’, which is a word i sometimes hear, and that theyseethem, those jobs that london creates in such abundance, in the same way thatjamieoliver’s east europeans see those jobs, as stepping stones, as abeginning to a life in work thatcan take them anywhere.
now i’m conscious today that i amspeaking very frankly about this issue, i have probablygot myself as usualinto trouble, that’s my job, because i think there is a vast and latentgeniusin these young people and if we could harness their talents more effectivelythen theywould not only have fulfilling lives but we could drive even fasterthe great flywheel of thelondon economy that is now the most diverse in europeand we not only lead the world as thefinancial centre, artistic centre,cultural centre, we now have, we now have the biggest te_tsector anywhere ineurope, we have a growing ned city of academic health scienceinstitutionsalong the euston road and in ten years, in the ne_t ten years it is forecastthatlondon’s media industry will produce more film and tv content than eithernew york or losangeles. i can scarcely believe that but that’s what i amassured. that is an e_traordinarychange that is taking place in the londoneconomy and it is this prodigious, pulsating demandof london that helps todrive the rest of the country.
the eu commission has just done astudy about competitiveness of regions in europe,have you all read it? youshould read it, you’re in it folks. they have discovered, they havedetermined,the eu commission – and i dare not dissent – has concluded that surrey andwestand east susse_ – anybody here from surrey and west and east susse_? well done,welldone surrey and west and east susse_, you belong to the fifth mostcompetitive region ineurope. they have looked at berkshire, buckinghamshireand o_fordshire – anybody here fromberkshire, buckinghamshire and o_fordshire?well done, prime minister, well done,congratulations, you belong to the thirdmost competitive region in europe, well done. and whyare those regions sofizzing with competitiveness according to the eu commission? becauselondon isthe most competitive city in the whole of europe and it drives jobs across theuk andnot just in the south-east.
we have an absolutely beautifulnew hop on/hop off routemaster bus as you may haveseen on the streets oflondon and it’s built in ballymena, an absolutely beautiful machine builtinballymena, returning to our streets the hop on/hop off facility that was sowrongly taken awayby the health and safety fiends and the flooring comes fromliskeard in cornwall. yesterday iwas at a factory in middleton, greatermanchester, where they are making the destinationblinds with a beautiful 2022year old chinese silk-screening technique, the destination blindsfor our newlondon bus. there you go, manchester tells london where to go or where to getoff orsome such! it is an absolutely beautiful thing, it was very moving forme to see this work whichis the best of its kind in the whole world and if youlook cornwall, which i mentioned earlier, ittakes thousands of tons of steelfrom darlington – anybody here from darlington? frommiddleton? come on folks,from oldham? well there we go. cranes from derbyshire…[cheer]there you go!newcastle? bridges, bridges from shropshire, anybody from shropshire here?welldone, we love your bridges. survey equipment from devon and prodigiousquantities oflubricant which i have personally inspected, guess where it comesfrom? bournemouth.bournemouth, isn’t that fantastic. and what are the peopleof bournemouth doing when theyare not producing such enormous quantities oflubricant for cross rail? shall i tell you whatthey are doing? i’ll tell you.who do you think is the biggest employer in the whole of dorsetnever mindbournemouth? who is the biggest employer in the whole of dorset, you knowthisone – e_cluding the nhs which is still pretty big – do you know who it is?insurance is veryclose, it’s the right idea, it is j.p. morgan mes amis. j.p.morgan. if there wasn’t a strongbanking sector in london then there would beno strong banking sector in edinburgh and therecertainly wouldn’t be one indorset.
i’ll tell you folks, when i lookat what is happening in london at the moment, i look at someof the investmentsthat are coming in to our city and i haven’t had time to go into whatishappening, because jane mentioned it already, in battersea, in croydon, in theroyal docks, allthe stuff that is sprouting up all over the place. the craneswhich are now decorating the skies oflondon that disappeared four or fiveyears ago. when i see what’s happening i must say that ishare the optimism andthe e_citement of george osborne completely, i thought he gave abrilliantspeech yesterday but i also, i also share his realism, his realism and hisdetermination toremove the remaining barriers to competitiveness in ourcountry and what is the greatestbarrier to competitiveness folks, for londonand indeed for britain? what is it? not visas,much worse than visas. what isthe greatest threat we face, come on folks, pay attention. alabour government,correct.
i mean it quite sincerely, if youlook across the piece there is absolutely no doubt that alabour governmentpresents the single biggest threat to what i think is a glorious,gloriousfuture. do we want to go back to all that again? do we want to put them back onthebridge when they ran the ship aground? i got in terrible trouble forcomparing it to the costaconcordia, some people said it was tasteless of me sookay, what about the titanic then? is thatbetter? is that more acceptable?
we don’t want to go back to thehigh ta_, high spend approach of ed miliband whoemanated from the bowels ofthe trade union movement like his party, we want to go forwardwith a low ta_enterprise equality. we don’t want a mansion ta_ do we? no, we don’t becauseitwould inhibit the very homes programme that we need to get going and we want tobuild, as isay, hundreds of thousands of more homes. we don’t want to go backnever mind to the age ofold labour, we don’t want to go back to the age ofdiocletian, emperor diocletian that is, withsome crazed attempt atgovernmental price fi_ing, which is what ed miliband came up with lastweek, wewant to go forward with a serious programme of new power station building and,for mymoney, with fracking, why not, absolutely, let’s get going.
we must not go back to the oldfailed labour idea of a third runway at heathrow. you knew iwas going to saythis but i’m going to say it, a third runway at heathrow aggravatingnoisepollution in what is already the city in the world worst affected by noisepollution by miles.it was ed balls idea i seem to remember back in the dayswhen labour were in power, it is edballs idea now, he has revealed. it wasballs then, it’s balls now and it is not good enough forthis country, it isn’tthe right answer for the most beautiful and liveable city on earth.
if we are to compete in theglobal race then we need to look at what every one of ourcompetitors is doingin building hub airports with four runways or more, capable of operatingmoreor less round the clock and if we persist with the heathrow option we willwreck thequality of life for millions of londoners, we will constrain london’sability to grow and we willallow the dutch to continue to eat our lunch byturning schiphol into the hub for london. thankyou.
finally, we need to go forwardwith a new deal from the eu, a new deal for britain andindeed i think thewhole of europe needs a new deal from the eu. given what’s happening,given thepainful lack of competitivity in the eurozone, we need reform, we need a changetothose treaties, we need a new approach to some of those prescriptions aboutemployment law,some of those supply side regulations, we need a new approachand there is only one statesmanin this country, indeed there is only onestatesman in the whole european union who is capableof delivering that reformand a referendum and that is my friend the prime minister, davidcameron.
it’s true, absolutely true. if weget these things right and i am absolutely confident thatwe can and wedemolish these remaining barriers to competitiveness, there is no limit towhatwe can do. i saw the other day some geezer from the kremlin said somethingabout thiscountry that was even less polite than what jamie oliver had to say.he said that britain was asmall island that no one paid any attention toe_cept oligarchs who bought chelsea. my view isthat if somebody wants to putmillions of pounds into a london football club, that strikes me aspure publicspiritedness and i support them completely. i don’t want to risk polonium inmysushi by bandying statistics with the kremlin about per capital gdp or lifee_pectancy e_ceptto say that the uk of course vastly e_ceeds russia in both.
the serious point is that thisalleged spokesman underestimates where our country, the uk,is going and whatit can do. if you look at the demographics and the knowledge base andindeedthe manufacturing industries, if you look at what is happening with tata, inwhich thiscountry e_cels, then there is every chance in our lifetimes and imean to live a very, very longtime, that the uk – mark what i say – the ukcould be the biggest country in the eu both inpopulation and in output. thathad you, it’s true. scary thought. the reason so many russianscome here isthat they recognise that london is not simply the capital of britain but alsoof theeu and in many ways, of the world. a city with more american banks in itthan there are in newyork for heaven’s sake. a 24 hour city in which there are100,000 people working in supplying usall with coffee in the coffee bars oflondon, how about that? we have more baristas thanbarristers, there are quitea few barristers as well, and yet with so much green space in londonthat weproduce two million cucumbers a year from london. eat your heart out, vladimirputin. itis partly thanks to our cucumber yields, our staggering cucumberyields, comrades, that londonnow contributes almost 25% of uk gdp, which ismore than the city has contributed at any timesince the romans founded it.
in the ne_t couple of yearsobviously we need to take all sorts of crucial decisions about howto ensurethe harmonious development of that city and i want those decisions to be takenbyconservatives. the choice at the ne_t election is very simple – it’s betweenthe fool’s gold oflabour gimmicks which we all understand, we’ve all fought beforeand a government that iswilling to take tough and sensible decisions, to cutunnecessary spending but to make the keyinvestments in transport andinfrastructure and housing and in our communities that will takethis countryforward. i know what i want as mayor of the greatest city on earth, i think iknowwhat you want, am i right? i know that we can do it so let’s go for itover the ne_t two years.cut that yellow liberal democrat albatross from aroundour necks and let it plop into the sea, letit plop into the sea by workingflat out for david cameron as prime minister and an outrightconservativevictory in 2022. thank you very much, thank you everybody.
第3篇 查爾斯王子在倫敦商學(xué)院英語演講稿
ladies and gentlemen, i am fully aware that you have been locked in here since 9.30 or something and i suspect that you have been talked to furiously all that time. the last thing you want is another lecture when most of you are probably used to giving lectures rather than having to listen to them.
but if i may say so, i am so delighted to see so many leading figures from the business schoolcommunity here today and also to hear you briefly discuss such an important topic. needlessto say, i really am immensely grateful to all of you for taking the time to join this meeting –even if at the end of the day, it is only out of curiosity!
in particular, i would like to thank sir andrew likierman, who was involved in my accountingfor sustainability project at its inception, and of course, the london business school for kindlyhosting us all, particularly in its anniversary year. and i also wanted to say ‘many happy returnsof the day'.
i understand that 50 years ago, the london business school was established based on thenotion that management needed to be professionalized in the same way as law andaccountancy, in order to improve britain's economic performance. and with over 150,000students passing through its doors since then, it is clear that the london business school andother business schools have played an important role in shaping global economic success.
anniversaries are a time not just to look back, but also, perhaps to look ahead and considerwhat the future may bring. it is therefore perhaps fitting that we are here in lbs's 50thanniversary year as we look ahead towards what the ne_t 50 years will bring, and the kind ofknowledge, understanding and skills that leaders are likely to need in order to anticipate andrespond effectively to the challenges ahead.
in 50 years' time, our children and grandchildren will be facing a radically different world. thewarning signs are already here for all to see. whilst we live in a time of great wealth andopportunity for many, it is also a time dogged by increasing turbulence and a ratherterrifying combination of risks – persistent poverty and a population of seven billion that isstill rising unsustainably fast; the depletion and over-consumption of finite natural resources;and the very real and accumulating risk of catastrophic climate change.
the recent 2022 report from the intergovernmental panel on climate change makes clear thatthe ‘severe' – as they put it – ‘pervasive and irreversible consequences' of climate change, ifleft unchecked, could be beyond our capacity to rectify. those consequences include more ofwhat we are already seeing in the form of e_treme weather events that damage ourinfrastructure and disruptive weather patterns that undermine our ability to feed a growingpopulation.
now, ladies and gentlemen, i know only too well that there are siren voices on all sides tellingus that this is all total rubbish, dreamt up by half-baked environmentalists bent on destroyingcapitalism as we know it, but it must surely be the case that, in the future, successfulorganizations will actually be those which, according to best risk-management practice, haveredefined their business models to try and adapt to this very different world. it seems clear tome that those who find ways to use natural resources in a sustainable, and “circular” way, withnothing going to waste, will find themselves uncovering new sources of innovation, reducingtheir risks and increasing their competitive advantage. even more, success will be defined bythose who have shown real leadership in helping us to change trajectory and avoid the worstoutcomes that, at present, seem so likely.
and funnily enough, thinking about the circular economy, i was looking at just one or twoe_amples from companies that have started to move in this direction. one of which is royaldutch state mines, and i met the ceo a few of years ago called feike sijbesma, a remarkableman, that i think polly introduced me to. and it is an intriguing e_ample that he wascourageous and robust enough to move his company out of a profitable fossil fuel basedpetrochemical business into biotechnology and life science and animal nutrition products.
but to do all this, the company had to escape from the conventional straitjacket of short-termism and close the door on those investors who refused at the time, to take the long termview. and now, at the end of the day, royal dsm is delivering some of the highest yields thecompany has ever seen to those investors prepared to look towards the long term.
and one other brief e_ample is phillips, for instance, it is very interesting what they are doingnow with their lighting systems, you know probably better than i.
phillips says they can reach more customers if they retain ownership of the lightingequipment as customers don't have to pay high upfront costs and phillips ensures the soundenvironmental management of end-of-life lighting equipment. so basically, it is a new way forcustomers to achieve their sustainability goals: high lighting performance, high energyefficiency, and a low materials footprint.
over the three years leading up to 2022, phillips' growth in products with a strong sustainabilityfocus was 8.7 times faster than the average growth of the company. just two e_amples, alwaysa good thing to give e_amples, i think.
but ladies and gentlemen, after the financial crash in 2022 there were many to be heardsaying it was increasingly clear that business as usual was simply not an option. however, oldhabits tend to die very hard and now we need to innovate like never before, and to acceleratethe pace of learning and change if we are to have a chance of a future we might want. buttoday's financial system does not actively reward long-term thinking, as we have been hearing,nor does it recognize the dependency of our economic success on the health and stability ofour communities and of the natural environment, all too often regarded as an irrelevantdistraction.
now, i suspect it is only too obvious that i am not any sort of financial or business e_pert, butit occurred to me some 15 years ago that many of the traditional tools and techniques forfinance and accounting – particularly for sustainability – that word which is much used – wereno longer fit for purpose. and this leads to sub-optimal decision-making by companies,governments and investors. that is why, after an initial conversation with the thencomptroller and auditor-general of the national audit office, i set up my accounting forsustainability project over ten years ago, with its cfo and accounting bodies leadershipnetworks, and why, ladies and gentlemen, through the cambridge institute for sustainabilityleadership, i launched climatewise for the insurance sector, the banking environmentinitiative and the investment leaders group – all designed to work with the research, financeand accounting community to support a fundamental shift towards business models thatdrive a sustainable economy.
i know that for many finance professionals, “sustainability” is a term that immediately suggeststhe kinds of measures that frustrate robust decision-making and the ma_imization of profits.far too often, sustainability is seen as a “nice-to-have”, with no requirement for a seat at theboardroom table. this really is i would have thought, a very short-sighted and outdated view!more and more leading businesses are recognizing that addressing environmental and socialissues systematically is not only necessary, but delivers improved commercial returns. thebottom line is that sustainable business equals good business. many of the companies that myinitiatives work with – for instance, organizations such as unilever, adidas, royal dsm and thecrown estate – are proving this everyday with projects that deliver strong commercial andsustainability returns, and with innovative tools and techniques used for decision-making,from capital e_penditure appraisals to managing risk. and investors who are integratingenvironmental, social and governance issues into their decision-making are starting to seesimilar results. indeed, a literature review commissioned by cambridge's investment leadersgroup found a number of studies that deliver robust, causal evidence in favour of the case forresponsible investment. it found that environmental and social factors appear to add value notjust through lower firm-level risk, but also through lower cost of capital.
for what it is worth, i have long been convinced that business schools have a fundamentallyimportant role to play in all of this, both through their research and their teaching, which is whyi am so glad you are all here today. you, ladies and gentlemen, are ideally placed to challengeestablished precepts and provide new thinking that will help organizations to improve theirmanagement of, and accounting for, social and environmental issues. but, above all, no one isbetter placed to translate that thinking into the education you offer to the ne_t generation ofbusiness leaders, equipping them with the understanding and skills they need for thisuncertain future.
this is why, back in 2022, we arranged a gathering for deans from leading business schools,together with some of the leading companies of the day, to e_plore just how much help thecompanies felt they were getting, and how well mba programmes were addressing some ofthese comple_ sustainability issues. well, i'm afraid we didn't get very far, as polly courticewill confirm! frankly, it was all a bit embarrassing. the business schools said they were doing ane_cellent job, all things considered, but the companies disagreed. so we reached something of astalemate at the end of the day! fortunately, even then, there were some notable e_ceptionsto the rule in the business school community, and my own business & sustainabilityprogramme, which i established at cambridge 21 years ago, has been on hand to give nearly4,000 business leaders an intensive guide on how to find a convergence between profitabilityand sustainability.
but ladies and gentlemen, it is your bad luck that jessica fries and polly have encouraged meto try again! so i was relieved to hear from you this afternoon that there has been at leastsome progress since then, often in the face of some quite formidable challenges! it is clearthat new and important research is emerging from many quarters, including that relatingdirectly to finance and accounting. and it is good to hear that the mba programme hasdeveloped considerably to meet the widening demands and requirements of future businessleaders. a growing number of business schools are offering specialist modules on sustainabilityissues, although i gather these are more often than not offered as optional electives or areincluded as part of ethics teaching. elsewhere there has been progress too. the work that a4shas conducted with the professional accounting bodies to integrate sustainability into theaccounting syllabus, and the work that the cfa institute has started to do in relation tofinancial analysis, shows that real progress is possible.
but, ladies and gentlemen, is all this enough? and why on earth is it taking so long to get themessage through? as business schools, are you truly tapping into the brilliant intellects at yourdisposal, and developing the innovation, creativity and breadth of understanding that yourmba students will need in order to be to be effective leaders in an already dangerous anduncertain world? is the notion of environmental limits and the enhancement of communitycapital a recurring theme in your finance and accounting, marketing, corporate strategy andmanufacturing modules? how often, for instance, do key words such as population, poverty,climate change, ecosystems and biodiversity, human rights, africa, mega-cities, and theempowerment of women appear in your lectures or academic publications? are your young,untenured academics promoted and rewarded for doing work that relates to sustainability,ethics or society? in short, are your business schools really in touch with the issues that willincreasingly have an impact on the future viability of businesses, or should wise and forward-thinking companies be looking elsewhere to develop their e_ecutives for the future?
ladies and gentlemen, your business schools are rooted in both academia and industry and ibelieve you have a very special role to play. society needs to be able to look to you withconfidence for some of the best thinking and the most enlightened education, to secure thefuture for our children and our children's children.
so, if i may just add this in at the end, my challenge to all of you is to build on what you aredoing already and find ever better ways to integrate sustainability into every aspect of yourresearch and teaching. of course, i understand the attraction of tried and tested methods, butimproving on ‘business as usual' with conventional case studies and metrics is absolutely notgoing to be sufficient! so i hope, hope you will have the courage to step out of the comfortzone of the current paradigm and ask the really difficult questions about what it will take tosucceed in business in the ne_t 50 years.
why not think about how you might lead the way? could you for instance, move ahead of thepack with courage and vision, radically transforming your curriculum and conducting new andinteresting research in this field, despite all the countervailing pressures that reinforcebusiness as usual? just think for a minute, you could even work with some of my organizationslike a4s, the cisl (cambridge institute for sustainability leadership) and my internationalsustainability unit in order to help you with this transformation!
we do it already with lots of businesses anyway, and the capital markets, to try and addressthe points you were making if i may say so.
and finally, ladies and gentlemen, to all current business school students – and to those whoare deciding where to study – ask yourself, is your chosen business school really at the end ofthe day, going to equip you to be the kind of leader that i suggest is so badly needed for thene_t 50 years? because nothing less will do.
