Now you mention it…
Are you populist?
This writer has mentioned on a number of occasions his preference for the liSwati version ‘detoriate’ informally placed in the vernacular as a...
Nobody deserves to die
The writer finds himself is guilty; immersed in ambiguity. A little verse to start and end today’s article. Well, the title is ambiguous....
A rising star extinguished
Let us look, today, at a politically challenging event that has recently taken place in the United Kingdom; both incident and treatment chosen...
Malthus meant us
I remember the prediction of Thomas Malthus, the highly influential English economic and political thinker, that the food in the world would never...
What’s in a name?
Quite a lot exists within a name. Only when one gets down to the task of examining the issue does one realise the...
Peace contributions that Putin has made
The question implied in the title is one of the simplest measurements on record. The answer is nil. Driven by an obsessive need...
Good to go: AI benefits
‘A new phrase for the new phase’. That’s my own. Sharper ones, introduced by others over the past years, were phrases like: That’s...
Never a cross word
The reader is asked to forgive the writer’s carelessness in the title. What he meant was that there was never a crossword. Or...
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Coming and going
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ByChris Morgan9 October 2025