According to the cliché, "when the US sneezes the world catches a cold".  Originally, this was said about the stock market, but it applies equally to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) vote on December 14 which repealed the 2015 net neutrality regulations.

In the 1970s, when I was an undergraduate, the feminist movement in Britain was still campaigning to criminalise marital rape, which is rape of one spouse by the other.

“It is better to trust in the Rock of Ages than to know the ages of the rocks!”  This was a great line from the film "Inherit the Wind", which dramatised the 1925 trial of John Scopes, a high school substitute teacher in Tennessee who was charged with violating the State’s B

In 1998, my wife, a great admirer of Nelson Mandela, was flabbergasted when a South African friend and an Afican National Congress activist said to her: “Mandela has accomplished his mission.

One of my favourite activities is to interact with young people in their undergraduate years. I learn a lot from probing their minds, which are intellectually curious, idealistic and highly critical.

Recently, when my wife needed to clear some official paperwork, she made the usual preparations for a day with officialdom: a nerve relaxant before, anti-depressants to be taken afterwards and a sense of resignation to the waste of a day collecting signatures and rubber stamps fo

It is always fascinating to follow changing world trends, particularly in politics.Half a century ago, independence was the buzzword of the day, as old empires disintegrated giving birth to new nations.Emergent countries in Asia or Africa sought to undermine one another by exchan

Last week, a situation arose that might have made good material for a comedy if it were not real and tragic.The World Health Organisation (WHO) selected a head of state (immaterial who it was because it is not an isolated case) to be its ambassador of goodwill in recognition of h

One of the most poignant books I have read was “Turn My Head to the Caucasus”, the biography of Osman Ferid Pasha, an ethnic Ubykh who took his family to Istanbul to escape the Russian genocide of Caucasians in the 18th and 19th centuries. He distinguished himself in the Ott