Monday, 15 December 2025

Category: Column

Do not play with fire

Fire is not loyal to anyone, stay away from it. – Anonymous FIRE is a good servant but a bad master. Remember this idiom which

Cracking chicanery codes

The criminal law is no use to decent people. – George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright   A code is universally known as “a system of

A norm rather than the exception

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice. – Gore Vidal, American writer and public intellectual   As soon

Money talks, scammers walk

‘Cats have a scam going – you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that’s the deal.’ – Eddie Izzard, British stand-up

Post-war years and Malayan Insurgency

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. — Joseph Campbell, American writer In January 1946, my father

Divorce — the beginning

You might not be able to control all the events that happen to you, but you can choose to not be reduced by them. –

Spare our education from politics

“The principal goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what

Lured by steady, promising incomes

Illegal immigration is a genuinely national issue, and resolving it requires a national commitment not just on health care but also border control, law enforcement