Development needs vision and planning

Walking along Reid Street and gazing through shop windows during normal shopping hours, one could not help but notice just how...

NFL and NBA to Trump: you’re a bum

Donald Trump, lacking the courage to serve his country in uniform or the skill to be the owner of a successful team, displays...

Immigrants: a boon not a burden

Immigration restrictionists give a number of reasons for why they want fewer people settling in the United States. Most of...

Overplaying the madman hand

Donald Trump appears to have embarked on a two-track approach to pressuring North Korea into restraining its nuclear weapons...

Uber ban in London is a big Brexit mistake

Prime Minister Theresa May made a big speech yesterday on Brexit negotiations, but the bigger news coming out of London may...

World risks replacing compassion with cruelty

A culture of cruelty is sweeping the world and it cuts across ideological as well as national borders. In India last week, the...

May’s Brexit message should be to Britain rather than Europe

British Prime Minister Theresa May travels to Florence this week to deliver a long-awaited speech on her Brexit strategy. The...

An odd case of defamation Down Under

Whatever you do, don’t tell an Australian that they were “born with a silver spoon” in their mouth — especially not after the...

A contradictory Trump speech

For those who have been alarmed by Donald Trump’s retreat from traditional American values, there were reassuring moments on...

When ‘inappropriate’ pertaining to Trump is just inappropriate

I love words, but sometimes they just aren’t up to the job.

Like the word “inappropriate”, which has been applied to...