The Speaker of the National Assembly has, not for the first time, attacked the courts, this time for declaring laws passed by Parliament unconstitutional. Apparently, he said, “the Senate and […]

Twenty-eight years ago, the opponents of the tyrannical regime of Daniel Moi, having built some unity in the wake of the end of the Cold War and the diminished support […]

Much nonsense gets talked by people who are trying to protect their own interests. It would be hard to beat (on the constitutional front at least) the pronouncement of governors […]

I am prompted to write this column by the remarkable statement of a scholar in Hong Kong on a recent visit there that China was on the verge of bankruptcy. […]

A lifestyle audit is simply  “a study of a person’s living standards to see if it is consistent with his or her reported income”. Its purpose is to identify pointers […]

It was distressing to see “Western envoys” enthusiastically praising the President, Director of Public Prosecutions and Directorate of Criminal Investigations over the charging of officials over alleged corruption at the […]

“Family of missing youth seeks DPP’s help to find him” was a headline in Tuesday’s Standard. It is not clear who took him away, but the family says they identified […]

Reading the title, you might be tempted to say: “Some people want to find a constitutional angle to everything!” It is true that the Constitution cannot solve every social issue. […]