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Undue influence
Oped, Postbag, Published on 04/02/2026
» Re: "Fears grow after early vote", (BP, Feb 2).
Driving them away
Oped, Postbag, Published on 01/01/2026
» Re: "Airport tax to rise 53% for international flights", (BP, Dec 4).
Skills over subsidies
Oped, Postbag, Published on 16/11/2024
» Re: "Rice exports expected to tally 9m tonnes", (Business, Nov 13) & "Rice Measures get approval", (BP, Nov 10).
Dodging Section 112 debate
Oped, Postbag, Published on 09/11/2024
» Re: "S112 won't fix itself", (BP, Nov 7).
Scales of justice
Oped, Postbag, Published on 02/11/2024
» Re: "Official's absence under review", (BP, Oct 30) & "No justice for Tak Bai", (Editorial, Oct 30).
Missing the mark
Oped, Postbag, Published on 29/10/2024
» Re: "Don't mess with Russia", (PostBag, Oct 27).
Will humans survive the next 100 years?
Oped, Peter Singer, Published on 24/08/2024
» In May, experts from many fields gathered in Montenegro to discuss "Existential Threats and Other Disasters: How Should We Address Them." The term "existential risk" was popularised in a 2002 essay by the philosopher Nick Bostrom, who defined it as referring to risks such that "an adverse outcome would either annihilate Earth-originating intelligent life, or permanently and drastically curtail its potential".
The lost cause of the 'Catalan Pimpernel'
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 14/08/2024
» Carles Puigdemont, the self-exiled leader of the Catalan separatist movement, aspires to become the new Scarlet Pimpernel. Last week he left Belgium, where he has lived as an unwelcome guest since he led a failed attempt to secede from Spain seven years ago, and had himself smuggled back to Barcelona, the capital of the region of Catalonia.
Israel vs the ICJ: Is this a waste of time?
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 18/01/2024
» The two sides have had their day in court -- one day each, actually. The 17 judges of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) have now retired to consider what interim decisions they should make on South Africa's accusation that Israel's actions in the Gaza Strip amount to the crime of genocide. Is this just a waste of time?
Putin's war and the world's energy
Oped, Nick Butler, Published on 15/03/2022
» The decision by many multinational corporations to exit Russia, after decades of engagement between global business and Russia's state-dominated economy, indicates that investors can no longer rely on the regime to enforce the rule of law. Russian President Vladimir Putin, once regarded as a modernising autocrat, is now clearly driven by personal obsessions rather than any rational cost-benefit calculation.