“We need something that deals with that and I’m afraid, welcome as a 2p cut in national insurance would be, it is really just sort of fiddling while Rome burns, I’m afraid.” Lord Frost’s ...

He justifiably asks: "If Nero became infamous for fiddling while Rome burned, what will be the future reputation of the modern college professor?" Williams can be easily criticized: his writing is ...

Across centuries and continents, formidable fires once threatened to destroy three major cities: Rome, London and Chicago.

Say what? Several old sayings come to mind. Look, Mom, the emperor has no clothes. Or the image of Nero fiddling while Rome burned.

there was no such thing as a fiddle in ancient Rome. While Nero was a musician (and ... legendary fall of Troy when he learned his city was burning, but there were no witness accounts to back ...

The Republican Congress is compounding residents' suffering by withholding wildfire aid for partisan reasons. The taxpaying residents of Southern California are suffering. The GOP Congress ...