Dear Editor Putin is now waiting to see if reason plus force works. Like a cat toying with a mouse. Russia destroyed Grozny to subdue the Chechen revolution. When reason didn’t work, they tried force. When force didn’t work, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin succeeded with total annihilation. To start,
As the Wordle fad hits what may be its peak (whether its sale to the New York Times is the shark-jumping moment remains to be seen), there’s no shortage of curmudgeons and grumpy-gutses. “If, like me, you love words, you should hate Wordle,” grouses the Telegraph. Psychologist Pragya Agarwal
As I am working as a full-time personal chef for a significant diplomat here in Jerusalem, my food column is pretty much limited to what I cook and create for his personal and entertainment needs. I have little spare time and energy to spend on cooking additional dishes aside from
Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. He lives in Sydney, Australia. History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme. Eighty-four years ago, on September 12, 1938, Adolf Hitler marched into the Sudetenland, effectively annihilating the independent nation of Czechoslovakia. Yesterday Vladimir Putin recognised the
Love and marriage, so the song says, go together like a horse and carriage. But it wasn’t always so. From the modern perspective, love is the most common reason cited by Westerners for getting married (or, more commonly today, cohabiting). But the modern West is a quite peculiar place
Information Opinion February 23rd, 2022. As the crisis in Ukraine continues it is worth examining its possible global impact and how it is interlinked with other possible flashpoints. Many years ago, Kissinger influenced the likes of Nixon and Bush with his policy of triangular diplomacy regarding Russia (Soviet Union) and
Paul Luciw has lived in Hong Kong since 1991. He founded the AsiaXPAT site in 1999, and has written thousands of articles about Hong Kong and Asia powering the expat Must Reads section. Whatever the issue, if Hong Kong is involved, he’s got an opinion and usually an answer.
Sir Edmund Hillary is perhaps the last of New Zealand’s traditional white heroes who hasn’t yet been cancelled, un-personed or “de-colonised” — but give it time. No doubt the gimlet-eyed inquisitors of the left will dig up some un-woke sin the great man once committed. But yeti-hunting is unlikely
Douglas Adams once wrote that the past is like a foreign country: “They do things exactly the same there”. The truth of that quip is borne out more and more every time we get a glimpse of the thoughts and doings of ordinary people in the past. Most historical records
Just like everything else food can’t escape the market forces of fashion and fads. Chefs and cooks are constantly badgered to serve up the next big delish and take us to where Captain Kirk took the Enterprise. Nouvelle cuisine was the first modern International organized culinary fashion, the first
My columns of the previous two weeks have been my personal quest to make 2022 the “Year of Reality” in the recounting of the history of New Zealand, especially in respect of the increasing efforts at deliberate misinterpretation/distortion of the intent and spirit of the Treaty of Waitangi. This
Like most boys, I was fascinated by dinosaurs. More than fascinated: I was not unlike Jurassic Park’s enfant terrible Tim Murphy. I was obsessed. From How, Why and Wonder books on dinosaurs, I progressed to heavier tomes as I got older. I spent my first holidays of high school
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As has become more usual in the past 3 or 4 years, Waitangi Day 2022 has produced a regurgitation of claims that Te Tiriti must be honoured by the return to Maori of what was taken from them by later settlers branded as “colonialists”; and that the Treaty is a
