“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 ...
It’s too little. It’s too much. Or it’s never enough. Or it’s never quite right. Call it the Goldilocks principle of government, folks — and, even worse, when stuck between a rock and hard place, it’s...
People do tend to go off on political parties from time to time. They have their fierce critics, and not always from the same quarters. Former Speaker Sir John Cox, from back in the days of independen...
Results matter, of course, but so, too, do the reasons that leads to those results. This is particularly true of decisions of the court. They ought not to be overlooked; and while not everyone is an a...
There are times when you cannot win for losing — and when it comes to making difficult decisions, pleasing everyone is out of the question. It has to be even tougher when trying to mobilise an entire ...
I could carp, but I won’t. I could lash out in anger, but I won’t. Complaining and criticising at this critical stage of the fight proves only one thing, and that is that hindsight is 20/20 vision.
So...
This is no lament for the way we were — now is not the time — but rather recognition of the way it is, and is likely to be for some time to come.
There can be few among of us who are not suffering exh...
