It’s a line I heard recently on 60 Minutes, a pronouncement from British-American political commentator and podcaster Andrew Sullivan. It struck me as having a certain ring of truth to it. While he ma...
Ho-hum, another Throne Speech marks the start of a new parliamentary session. I have seen and heard a number over the years, maybe as many as 50, dating back to my years in journalism, and even had a ...
As the clever old saw goes: if you want to kill an idea, even a good one, send it to a committee for study and recommendation.
The tactic came to mind when the question surfaced very recently at one o...
For those who have been asking: yes. I am vaccinated, and, yes, I am going for a third booster jab. I believe in the efficacy of vaccinations in the fight against this deadly pandemic. The evidence he...
These two words loom large today: if only. If only everyone could agree, or at least come together to reach a consensus on how we must combat Covid-19 and the deadly Delta variant — and act on it.
Fat...
It has been said that there are no friends in politics, only allies who have common interests that can and do shift from time to time. In fact, as former US president Harry Truman once famously said a...
“We have found the enemy, and it is not each other.”
— Heather McGhee, The Sum Of Us
This could easily get out of hand — and here I am referring not only to the Covid-19 pandemic, which has th...
Larry Dennis. Heather Jacobs Matthews. Heather Thomas.
You have only to mention their names and people immediately know who and what you are talking about. Their messages as auditors-general has been ...
Cup Match returns. It will not be your father’s Cup Match or that of your mother, for that matter. Instead, it will be one for the ages — thanks again to Covid-interruptus. Still it’s great that the g...
We are more divided than we have ever been is the claim. But a claim is all it is, all part of the theatre of politics brought on by the pandemic in which we find ourselves. There are no actual means ...
