TR EMERITUS

My formative years were spent in the United Kingdom and the seven of the ten years that I spent in the UK were in a school of people who came from families that voted “Tory,” (the one “freak” known to vote Labour was the art teacher and one of the more eccentric teachers declared “You got put a blue faced baboon in... 

In view of a surge of Covid-19 cases in India, the New Zealand government has banned travellers including its own citizens returning from India from 11 Apr 2021. Likewise, Hongkong has also imposed a ban on flights from India for 2 weeks from 20 April 21. Last saturday and over a period of just 24 hours, India has reported >230,000... 

For many years, I held the view that the political system adopted in communist countries is a better system. In a communist country, the constitution provides that the country has to be run "under the leadership of the communist party". This requires the leaders to be elected by the members of the communist party. The alternative...