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On 1 July Malaysia’s Parliament passed a motion to require all MPs, as well as their wives and children, to declare their assets. While it has not yet been passed into law, which the Malaysian Law Minister said would be done in a Bill introduced in the next Parliament session, MPs, their spouses and minor children would have... 

If a family is in financial distress and is not able to provide for their children, it is better for them to give a child for adoption by other parents who can better provide for the child. I share this story of a wealthy family who have adopted children. Mr. and Mrs. X had three sons. They wanted a daughter very much. They... 

Success fails. In the long run entropy sets into any successful political system, as people take its successes for granted and forget what actually made it work. Martin Wolf of FT in “Why democratic government is showing strains in the US and UK” where he bemoans that nostalgia, identity politics and declining influence...