From quoting the national anthem to referencing Hollywood blockbusters and George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984”, Chinese web users are using creative methods to dodge censorship and voice discontent over Covid…
Some well wisher should have advised Prime Minister Imran Khan to take heed of the warning to Julius Caesar regarding the Ides of March in Shakespeare’s play. In its absence,…
ON Sunday night, during the marathon prime-time television talk shows, a host had a panel of three journalists discussing the siyasi dangal (political arena) in general and the allies’ politics…
THE impact of this government on democracy and parliamentary norms are worth exploring given the motion for the vote of no-confidence against Prime Minister Imran Khan filed by the now…
Marx said that history repeated itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. But what about the third time? Or the fourth? Or the twentieth? Do the…
Dear readers, in the life of those who are in print or electronic media, the impelling urge every single day is to come up with a scoop, a new story,…
Chinese President Xi Jinping has coached his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong Un on high-stakes diplomacy. Now he seems poised to give the young autocrat another lesson: how to reform…
After all the condemnation of US tariffs on EU metal exports and calls for unity, the European Union still has two decisions to make - how hard to hit back…
Until recently, farmers in this town in southern Zimbabwe struggled to water their crops, frustrated by poor rainfall and the regular breakdown of the diesel engines that powered their irrigation…
WE start with a simple truth: that government becomes more trustworthy, the closer it is to the people. This is because all politics is local. Whatever the press may dub…
