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Shackles of mediocrity
News, Postbag, Published on 03/01/2021
» Re: "Impossible dream", (PostBag, Jan 2).
Saccharine sermon
Oped, Postbag, Published on 02/01/2021
» Re "Govt 'gifts' need work," (Editorial, Jan 1).
European Union is free at last
News, Published on 31/12/2020
» Blaming the victims is never a good look. As Britain finally leaves the European Union, 1,651 days after the Brexit referendum of 2016, we should try to remember that 48% of the turkeys didn't vote for Christmas.
Well, after that things can only get better
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 27/12/2020
» What a dreadful year. We found ourselves having to tackle a whole new vocabulary and most of the words were enough to make even the most optimistic among us depressed. It all began in March with "self-isolation", a horrible expression inferring you have become a hermit, hidden away, exiled, incommunicado, which in fact is exactly what we were.
Brexit: Sovereignty means free will, not a free lunch
Published on 16/12/2020
» LONDON: Only a handful of people are privy to what is going on inside the “tunnel” of European Union-UK trade talks.
How Covid-19 disrupted the EU's integration
Oped, Published on 03/12/2020
» The second wave of Covid-19 infections has struck Europe harder than many expected. The hope of a V-shaped recovery has been replaced by the fear of a double-dip recession, implying that there will be no quick return to normal European Union budget rules. More worryingly, Europe now finds itself forced into a tradeoff between two objectives, both of which are critical to its long-term viability as a supranational political and economic bloc. Now more than ever, the EU's commitment to the rule of law appears to be on the chopping block.
Reason key to resolving conflict
News, Somkiat Tangkitvanich, Published on 27/10/2020
» I hardly express my political views, since I am aware that I am not an expert on political issues, but today I would like to offer a personal opinion as a citizen who is concerned about the current situation.
Pantomimes, Brexit and Boris Johnson
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 22/10/2020
» The British pantomime is a traditional Christmas entertainment in which stock characters face imaginary dangers and audience participation is encouraged ("He's behind you!"), but the play never frightens the children and it always has a happy ending.
Investors warm to a 'Blue Wave'
News, Published on 15/10/2020
» Just about the only market consensus all year on next month's US election was that it would be volatile around the vote -- but even that's turning upside down three weeks before polling.
Asean shows you can have your cake and eat it too
Oped, Published on 08/10/2020
» In justifying his Brexit posture, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, explained that, when it comes to the EU "cake", he was "pro having it and pro eating it". Cakeism also forms the approach of the 10 Asean countries to their own regional arrangement.