Gripe/Opinion

History may yet be on Barack Obama’s side, his poor mid-term performance notwithstanding DO results from the mid-term elections necessarily mean that the Obama era can be classified as a disappointment? There are at least […] […]

By Sandrea:-MYGRIPE It comes as no surprise to read the article that states that children become better at spelling if they are read bedtime stories.  The days are long gone when parents would see it […] […]

NON-MUSLIMS are seen as Western surrogates. SCREAMING “Kill! Kill! Kill!”, suicide bombers belonging to the Islamic State of Iraq, a militant organisation connected to al-Qa’ida in Iraq, stormed a Chaldean church in Baghdad on Sunday. […] […]

By Sandrea:-MYGRIPE Well, so what the American people decide to vote in the Republicans to the House of Representatives, and you would believe that from the criticism that has been level at Barack Obama is […] […]

IF he is to carry the country, Barack Obama must embrace the centre. IN 1961, at a banquet in California, defeated presidential candidate Richard Nixon spied Ted Sorensen, speechwriter and close adviser to the victorious […] […]

The Democratic Party took a whipping in the United States House of Representatives in Tuesday’s mid-term elections. The new Republican majority has made it clear it has no interest in bipartisan consensus, suggesting a logjam […] […]

Yesterday the American electorate voted to punish President Obama for the economic failings of President Bush, by making it impossible for Obama to legislate without securing the support of the Republicans, who now have the […] […]

In chess terms, it can be said that the recent US arms sale to Saudi Arabia has put Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmajinedad in “check” militarily. The US$68 billion sale of the latest land and air […] […]

OLD enemies will become comrades-in-arms. MORE than a millennium of mutual mistrust, nationalistic hostility and thoroughly enjoyable reciprocal stereotyping is under threat as Britain and France outline plans for unprecedented military collaboration. British and French […] […]

THE Left has brought about transformation. IT was a handsome victory. Dilma Rousseff, who spent three years in jail under Brazil’s military dictatorship, swept to power on Monday, winning 56 per cent of the vote […] […]