As P&O, Rover, BAA and the Stock Exchange testify, what happens in Dubai, Nanjing, Madrid, Sydney and New York has a powerful immediacy for us in British business.
They quoted a witness who testified: "What RTLM did was to spread petrol throughout the country little by little, so that one day it would be able to set fire to the whole country".
When the government tried to cover up the details, I testified what I witnessed.
She realized that she still loved her husband and that, as she testified, "what I had been doing with the defendant was extremely selfish".
Or as Lloyd Blankfein testified, "what we did in that business was underwrite to the most sophisticated investors who sought that exposure".
While there are no direct legal ramifications for testifying, what it does do is provide more evidence for lawmakers.
Though no masterpiece, Pure Heroine establishes a voice that testifies about what it means to be part of a generation that is relentlessly solicited, constantly connected, and prematurely cynical.
"In other words, it testifies to what UNICEF advocates for every day: the indivisibility of child rights and the interplay between birth registration and access to and the denial of human rights.
"Testifying for what is right against what is wrong.
In John 3 11 Jesus says: "We speak of what we know and testify to what we have seen," in response to a question of how we can be born from above or as we would say today, saved.
