Divided court, divided country

IF AMERICANS had been hoping their Supreme Court would rise above the partisan divide of US politics and restore a sense of fairness to this year's presidential election, they have to have been disappointed. The highest court in their... - John Rapley

Politics as a dirty business

FROM TIME to time, various politicians accuse the media of making out that politics is a dirty business, and of painting all politicians as being corrupt with one broad brush. But it seems to me that, recently, the direct utterances... - Peter Espeut

Giants of education

WITHIN DAYS of each other, the country lost two of its giant contributors to education ­ Sir Florizel Glasspole and Sir Philip Sherlock. We will begin with the younger man first. Florizel Glasspole, born 1909, was the Minister of... - Martin Henry