Truth to tell: telling the fact from the fiction
JUST how do you tell if news is fake or real? That’s the question posed by journalist Adam Christie as the political and technological conflagration…
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Britons ‘mis-sold’ arguments over Europe
TWO “lies” underpinned the “mis-selling” of arguments in the campaign before last year’s UK referendum over membership of the European Union. One was the claim,…
Union champion offers lessons from 40 years’ experience
PEOPLE keep jobs, get pay rises or retire with decent pensions; these are just three successes lay union reps can achieve for their colleagues if…
Meghan Markle ‘unprepared’ for media blitz as Prince Harry’s girlfriend
TELEVISION actress Meghan Markle appeared unprepared to be “catapulted to something stratospheric” when it emerged she was dating “the world’s most eligible bachelor”. That’s the…
Academy’s military leaning unlocks clues to President’s alpha male behaviours
CLUES to the behaviour and attitudes of incoming President of the United States Donald Trump can be found in his schooling. The claim comes from…
Vitriol over Castro obscures repressive dangers of UK’s ‘snoopers’ charter’
ACCORDING to The Independent, the UK’s new Investigatory Powers Act gives nearly 50 government or state agencies* access to personal internet browsing The IT industry…
Hue goes there? Is race black, white and grey all over?
IRKED by arrogance, AsPerceived Quarterly contributor Frank Bradford, looks for some humility. I AM white, middle-aged and grey-haired. I like to think I’m reasonably…
Democratic development or constitutional corruption?
CITIZENS of ‘the west’ take democracy – or the representative democracies – of their nation states for granted but new nations have to create such…
Expecting the worst from the worst: recalibrating representative democracy
DISCONNECTION has become the political byword of 2016 as pollsters and pundits try to explain the emergence of Donald Trump from the electoral college to…
Sharing the driving acquires a green hue
WHETHER you think of them as automobiles or motor cars, there is no denying that the monster Karl Benz let loose on the world has…