Thursday, 15 January 2026

Category: Opinion

Why another race-based party, Dr M?

Wherever it takes disaster to unite, politics generally divide: and in eras of intense uncertainty, a nation’s people retreat into the tribes in which they

Of frogs, defectors and castration

Political frogs cause instability as they make people mistrust and despise politicians. They alter the political equation and neglect to honour the voting public that

Keeping diabetes at bay

Everybody’s going to have some degree of health problems, and as we get older, I think we’ve gotta maintain. – Tom Hanks, actor I am

Te whetu Orongo

Of people and sheeple

Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief. – AEdwin Louis Cole, American author The word “sheeple” seeped into the American

Reading again after a long break

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies … The man who never reads lives only one. – George R. R. Martin, American novelist

Defending English, the Tok Nan way

If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers. – Doug Larson, columnist and editor I

Not even occupying mind’s back seat

Politics determine who has the power, not who has the truth. – Paul Krugman, American economist Many journalists are endowed with passion for politics, showing

Politics should be a vocation

I believe many of you will agree when I state here that we normally pay scant or no attention to what unknown politicians like defeated