Don’t get taken for a spin
by Rachel Everett-Fry
Political spin is a propaganda technique characterized as an attempt to control communication in order to deliver a message in a manner...
Political world
Historians used to have an approach that was called The Great Man Theory. This said that the really powerful motivating factor in history were...
The fool on the hill
I understand we’re in a federal election campaign, yes? I may seem a little confused, but, to be honest, the whole election thing seems...
We can work it out
Readers will notice a rather excited exchange in the Letters section this week, as some correspondents dissect what they saw as a misleading, if...
Obla-di, obla-da
It seems to me that we’ve all ben experiencing what might be called a state of heightened mental awareness for the past year and...
New Home in the Sun
by Rachel Everett-Fry, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
“Well, I dreamed I saw the silver spaceships flying, In the yellow haze of the sun, There were...
What was it you wanted?
To quote Bob Dylan: “we live in a political world, where mercy walks the plank”.
There are times when it seems that no-one is willing...
Beware of darkness
I’m not sure if people were always this simplistic, or is it the result of too much Facebook and Twitter and other “platforms” that...
Stand by me
I have lost count of the number of letters to the editor, articles, and social media posts that have been generated since the announcement...
I’m looking through you
Last year, we all felt that Canada Day was a bit of a miss; not the usual opportunity to celebrate the land and the...