The body is thus not simply an 'entity', but is experienced as a practical mode of coping with external situations and events.

Martin Luther King did not stir his audience in 1963 by declaiming 'I have a nightmare'

The new mixed economy looks...for a synergy between public and private sectors.

Abstract systems depend on trust, yet they provide none of the moral rewards which can be obtained from personalised trust, or were often available in traditional settings from the moral frameworks within which everyday life was undertaken. Moreover, the wholesale penetration of abstract systems into daily life creates risks which the individual is not well placed to confront; high-consequence risks fall into this category. Greater interdependence, up to and including globally independent systems, means greater vulnerability when untoward events occur that affect those systems as a whole.

Lifestyles are routined practices, the routines incorporated into habits of dress, eating, modes of acting and favoured milieux for encountering others; but the routines followed are reflexively open to change in the light of the mobile nature of self-identity.

Apocalypse has become banal, a set of statistical risk parameters to everyone's existence.

The difficulties of living in a secular risk culture are compounded by the importance of lifestyle choices.