Politics and its Discontents

Well, we arrived back in the early hours of yesterday, having enjoyed a relaxing week in Cuba. Unfortunately, there was no English-speaking...

This morning's Star editorial cartoon :

I suspect that as a lot of us get older, especially with the context that the years behind us provide, it is difficult not to submit to de...

I had planned this to be my first piece post-holiday, but Nelson Mandela's passing yesterday prompted my post about that giant who walk...

We are all the poorer today. Nelson Mandela has died at the age of 95. My personal hero, his greatness of soul will not be seen again fo...

I recently wrote a post on the ailing Nelson Mandela and why he is so important a world figure. Last Friday Gerald Caplan wrote a piece ...

Although I have only made reference to him three other times in this blog, Nelson Mandela is a person who I revere like no other. And of c...

In an age when everyone feels entitled to their own reality series because, well, because they are 'special' and entitled, I su...

No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, ...

No matter what age we may attain, I doubt that we ever lose our need for heroes. Certainly, as we grow up, the definition of hero must...