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I am writing this on a Wednesday evening. Tomorrow the Minister of Finance will read the budget for financial year 2020/21. I don’t envy his task, especially after his famous expression last year that the economy was on a ‘pheeew…
Continue readingIn the news this week, we read how parliament had passed a bill aptly named the “Administration of the Judiciary Bill”, 2018. We need not go into the reasons why this bill was passed at this particular moment but just…
Continue readingThese are not normal times and it is in such times that we learn about the character of a people and nations. The pandemic has been both a boon and hindrance in various ways. A boon in that the lockdown…
Continue readingProbably you have never heard about or read any of Jeremy Paxman’s writings. If you have not, you better find his book “The Political Animal’ (2002). It is the quintessential anatomy of a politician in which he observes how politicians…
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