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As a parent of schoolkids, I’m all up for pastoral care, a bit of safeguarding, wellbeing and welfare protection but when that oversteps the mark into teachers and administrators deceiving mums and dads about what’s going on with their children, I’m sorry, that’s too much. If that deception, however, also …

Roy Cohn, Senator Joe McCarthy’s legal pitbull, famously proclaimed, “Don’t tell me what the law is, tell me who the judge is.” Cohn, speaking back in the 1950s, was opining that the US does not have a rule of law, but instead a rule of men and women who decide cases …

It must be a wonderful feeling to sit among the tech giant royalty high above the little people in Mountain View, California, making arbitrary, far-reaching decisions to punish anyone who doesn’t see the world the way you do. We’re all mere playthings at their mercy. Flick a switch here, click …

Speaking to CBS News on Sunday, the Turkish leader said that his government would refuse to allow other nations to dictate what weapons it buys, and that it is considering placing an order with Moscow for more S-400 launchers. “In the future, nobody will be able to interfere in terms …

Perhaps the most positive sign since the inauguration of Iran’s new President Ebrahim Raisi, came on Sunday with a new IAEA-Iran agreement. Following a snap visit by the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Mariano Grossi, Tehran agreed to allow the watchdog group to service cameras monitoring …

Despite pledging in the past that he would never force Americans to roll up their sleeves for a mandatory vaccine, that is exactly what President Joe Biden announced this week to a nation already sick and tired of masks, lockdowns and political infighting. Worse, the US leader stoked divisions inside …

In a much-hyped address on Monday, former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair insisted that leading powers must “unite to develop a shared strategy” to counter the threat of radical Islamism, claiming that defeating this ideology and its violence is also in China and Russia’s interests.  While terrorist attacks have become …

Speaking to a journalist on YouTube, Alexey Arestovich, who works as the spokesman for Kiev’s delegation to the contact group on Donbass, claimed that Ukrainians are actually the real Russians. The word Rus goes back to the Kievan Rus, a former East Slavic Monarchy that is considered to be the …

After landing in Singapore for a trip through Southeast Asia this week, Harris outlined the Joe Biden administration’s vision for the region in a speech on Tuesday, saying it seeks to advance “peace and stability, freedom on the seas” and “human rights” in the Indo-Pacific. Echoing previous comments by Biden, …

In recent tweets and media interviews, Hashmat Ghani has argued that the Taliban’s takeover should be accepted, provided that its government is inclusive.  The businessman – and chieftain of Afghanistan’s nomadic Kochi population – told Al Jazeera in an interview that Afghanistan could not afford to return to the chaos …