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Flood response ideas
Oped, Postbag, Published on 30/11/2025
» Re: "When flood warnings come too late", (Opinion, Nov 29).
Can't buy everything
Oped, Postbag, Published on 31/07/2025
» Re: "Thai army condemns Cambodia for breaking ceasefire agreement", (BP, July 29) & "Ulterior motives" (PostBag, July 29).
The key to transforming a health crisis
Oped, Jayati Ghosh, Published on 25/04/2024
» Despite the relentless stream of bad news from around the world, there are still reasons for optimism. One notable example is the renewed push to localise pharmaceutical production in Africa, demonstrating how even catastrophic events like a pandemic can lead to positive, unforeseen outcomes.
People pound
Oped, Postbag, Published on 11/04/2024
» Re: "Overcrowded prisons need reforming", (Opinion, April 10).
The frog, the scorpion and Hamas
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 18/11/2023
» Stop me if you've heard this story before. Or rather, don't, because it's relevant to the current situation, and we have to bring the people who don't know the story up to speed first.
Very thorough
Oped, Postbag, Published on 17/08/2023
» Re: "Senate to play pivotal role", (Editorial, Aug 14).
MFP victory one for the history books
Oped, Chairith Yonpiam, Published on 20/05/2023
» The phenomenal victory of the Move Forward Party (MFP) has stunned its political opponents.
Quitting what you're doing while still on top
Oped, Peter Singer, Published on 16/02/2023
» Last month, Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand's 42-year-old prime minister, resigned from office, despite the support of a solid parliamentary majority and no challenge to her leadership from within her party. New Zealanders have to go back only six years to find a precedent. In 2016, John Key surprised everyone when, at the age of 55, he made way for his deputy to take over.
Earthquakes, Turkish politics and culpability
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 15/02/2023
» If you are trying to dodge the blame for a great disaster, the best policy is to say that it was God's will. So Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, visiting one of the 6,000 buildings that collapsed on their sleeping residents in eastern Turkey last week, said: "Such things have always happened. It's part of Destiny's plan."
The real threat?
Oped, Postbag, Published on 17/12/2022
» Re: "Retain citizen army", (PostBag, Dec 13) and "Conscription's days numbered", (Editorial, Dec 10).