At last! Israel has uncharacteristically owned up to killing seven aid workers in Gaza as a “grave mistake.” Unsurprisingly, up to this...

What does genocide mean? Up till the Israel-Hamas conflict, there was not a scintilla of doubt that it simply means “the deliberate...

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Letter to Tony Abbott Dear Tony I must apologise for the time lag in responding to your recent anti-China tirade delivered from the very...

Another season of Masterchef is over. I sort of follow each season not because I have any intentions of putting my latent culinary skills...

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I could never imagine the day I would be writing to you from my antipodean neck of the woods as D-day draws inexorably closer for you....

When the Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee against the neck of George Floyd, it transfixed, then ignited the world for a good...

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By Kim Khiat Tye 14 April 2020 Coronavirus has given social media reason to go into uber-overdrive. Posts, fake news, fake memes, trolls,...

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