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PETER YOUNG: Consistent stance needed in relations involving Russia, Belarus and Iran
HOW dispiriting it was to learn about the Nobel Foundation’s recent decision to invite the ambassadors of Russia, Belarus and Iran to this year’s Nobel Prize award ceremony in Stockholm in December after excluding them in 2022.
Remembrance Day poppies launched
REMEMBRANCE Day poppies were launched at Government House yesterday to commemorate soldiers who have died in war.
INSIGHT: We have been warned before about Putin
THE eyes of the world have been on the conflict in Ukraine as Russian forces have invaded.
Is world history today repeating itself?
AS WE watched in horror a Russian tank smash through the gates of a Ukrainian army base in Crimea’s Balbek city on Saturday, it was as though a sledge hammer had forced open the memory box of a small child sitting in her father’s editorial office many years ago listening to him discussing another European land grab by a mad tyrant.
Global conflict and the art of diplomacy
In turbulent and uncertain times the value of vigorous interaction by governments should not be underestimated, says Peter Young.
PETER YOUNG: Silence in court - hit the mute button: tradition and technology in the justice system
IT was a pleasure to receive again this year an invitation to the ceremony to mark the opening of the new Legal Year. This time, because of coronavirus restrictions there was no traditional service at Christ Church Cathedral nor the usual crowded gathering in the Supreme Court to hear addresses by the Attorney General, the Chief Justice and the President of the Bar Association. Instead, there was a “virtual ceremony” held last week out-of-doors in Rawson Square with limited attendance and live television coverage.
PETER YOUNG: So much talking as the desperate continue to die
The screaming UK media headlines said it all – “Tragedy in the Channel”.
PETER YOUNG: Immigration is top of agenda again in Britain
A widely familiar refrain is that politics is a dirty business.
PETER YOUNG: Love him or hate him Marmite Morgan has cause to celebrate
The words of wisdom of George Orwell, the prolific English writer and critic and author of the famous works “Animal Farm” and “1984”, are quoted so often because invariably they are apposite and sum up what others are thinking.
PETER YOUNG: When political leaders fail to act in their country’s interests
DESPITE the normal festivities surrounding Christmas, my wife and I found there was more time this year for reflection since I was house-bound while recovering from hip replacement surgery. So I was particularly grateful to a good friend for his kind gift of an interesting book entitled ‘The March of Folly’ by American Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author, Barbara Tuchman. In her heyday in the 1960s she was well known as one of America’s foremost popular historians for she had an engaging style and succeeded in making the past interesting to millions of readers.
