Nothing Unprecedented has Happened
One of the delights of the English language is that its extensive vocabulary facilitates nuance. The recent overuse of the word...
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Peter Francis Fenwick
- Apr 25, 2020
- 1 min
How Dare You Close My School
Our schools should never have been closed. The expert advice was consistent about this. Officials of the teacher unions should hang their...
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Peter Francis Fenwick
- Apr 20, 2020
- 2 min
When Nattering in the Park is a Crime
Last Saturday, I experienced what it would be like living under authoritarian rule. My friend and neighbour, Winston Smith (not his real...
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Peter Francis Fenwick
- Apr 2, 2020
- 2 min
Paying for COVID-19
If the government pays citizens who are not working, and refunds businesses who employ people who have nothing to do, this is not...
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Peter Francis Fenwick
- Mar 29, 2020
- 2 min
Discretionary Saving
For the time being there are lots of things we cannot spend our money on. What will we do with the money we save? In response to the...
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Peter Francis Fenwick
- Feb 10, 2020
- 6 min
Opportunities for Corruption
When the Auditor General released a scathing report on the allocation of $100million in sports grants, we all understood that funds had...
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Loretta Lockesmith
- Oct 17, 2019
- 5 min
Printing Money does not Create Wealth
Is it possible to create prosperity by printing money? Have the Central Banks found the answer to the Philosopher's Stone? On Tuesday,...
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Loretta Lockesmith
- Sep 11, 2019
- 9 min
Limits to what employees can say
To what extent should an employer be able to control the pubic expression of its staffs' political and religious beliefs?
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Loretta Lockesmith
- Sep 4, 2019
- 7 min
Exploitation or Opportunity?
The other day I met my old friends Marcia and Ann for lunch at Babka in Brunswick Street. It was good to catch up again. Babka is just a...
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Loretta Lockesmith
- Aug 30, 2019
- 5 min
Get Your Hands Out of My Knickers
What is the best way to handle sexual harassment? What advice would you give your daughter or granddaughter? I get on really well with...
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Peter Francis Fenwick
- Aug 10, 2018
- 8 min
Have We Lost Our Moral Compass?
Kenneth Haynes' enquiry into the finance industry has exposed troubling ethical behaviour among those we expected should know better. But...
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Peter Francis Fenwick
- Feb 21, 2018
- 9 min
A Novel Biography of George Orwell
I read Dennis Glover’s The Last Man in Europe. Then I read Orwell's 1984 again. Then I re-read The Last Man in Europe. I appreciated it...
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