Today our art of living well has evolved since antiquity in Europe to a residence in Australia through a diverse and special mix of peoples and their cultures.

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Our understanding of the meaning of both liberty and justice is at the very heart of the establishment of today’s modern western culture.

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Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson were both men of means practically and intellectually. Their incredible contribution to a free world is immeasurable. They espoused ancient Greece and Roman buildings and were inspired by the clarity, simplicity and spaciousness of its forms. Seen from St. Petersburg to Edinburgh, from Virginia to Versailles the neoclassical style was to become the architecture of freedom.

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Remembering 9/11, lest we forget what liberty, freedom and democracy really means. The Statue of Liberty in New York is an eternal symbol of hope that we can, by the sharing of knowledge enlighten and illuminate the future, finally bringing about peace in our world.

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Although he died before the French revolution Voltaire’s experiences at London became part of the wider expertise he gained that informed European enlightenment

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Writer, philosopher and musical theorist from Geneva (now the capital of Switzerland) Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) believed beauty had a common source in ‘well ordered nature’ and that ‘taste is perfected with the same means as wisdom’…and what ‘must be done therefore…is…to cultivate taste.

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In stellar company on the Graham Norton Show Rock Star Physicist Brian Cox OBE, recently voted the world’s sexiest astronomer, is like a breath of fresh air in the world of science. Passionate, like Rock Star poet Lord Byron he is handsome, not pretty – tall and good looking enough to be taken seriously.

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