TR EMERITUS

Over a period of 35 years, several manpower ministers failed to find a solution to the challenge of getting employers to give preference to locals for jobs. They kept to the same strategy - getting employer to pay a levy to employ foreigners and set limits on the proportion of foreign workforce. The strategy did not work. Foreigners... 

I’ve just read an article by Al Jazeera’s senior correspondent, Marwan Bishara, that seems to sum up one of the big issues of the current General Election, the seeming inability of a very powerful entity to get the basics right. Mr. Bishara’s article was about the proposed annexation of Palestinian lands in the Middle... 

Why I think societies need to neuter excessive state power… Power tends to corrupt; and absolute power corrupts absolutely (Lord Acton). He observed that a person’s sense of morality lessens as his or her power increases. I believe during the time of Acton (died 1902), corruption was raw and direct. Today, many so-called...