Category: Column

Te whetu Orongo

Of people and sheeple

Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief. – AEdwin Louis Cole, American author The word “sheeple” seeped into the American

Reading again after a long break

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies … The man who never reads lives only one. – George R. R. Martin, American novelist

Defending English, the Tok Nan way

If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers. – Doug Larson, columnist and editor I

Not even occupying mind’s back seat

Politics determine who has the power, not who has the truth. – Paul Krugman, American economist Many journalists are endowed with passion for politics, showing

Politics should be a vocation

I believe many of you will agree when I state here that we normally pay scant or no attention to what unknown politicians like defeated

Unifor complex, our pride!

Unifor cannot expect the government to be its Santa Claus in giving financial handouts all the time. – Richard Lon, Unifor director Why has the

Adventures with a man-eater

Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those species are rare or endangered. They’re on the way out,

Short but rewarding broadsheet stint

You’re miserable, edgy and tired. You’re in the perfect mood for journalism. – Warren Ellis, British comic book writer Despite serving slightly more than four

Whoever wins, Sabahans lose

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. – Richard

Snap out of Covid-19 complacency

Pandemic is not a word to use lightly or carelessly. It is a word that, if misused, can cause unreasonable fear, or unjustified acceptance that