Election Day
THE NATION heads to the polls today in the 14th general election since Universal Adult Suffrage in 1944, the ninth since Independence in 1962, the first of the 21st century.
THERE ARE some arguments you can never win and some bets you can never collect. Politics and religion (for some they are the same) are subjects to avoid if you want to have consensus... - Peter Espeut
COMPARED WITH long ago the Christian Church is now considerably more supportive of progressive causes. This has taken priests and pastors out of their holy ivory towers into the heat and muddle and countless problems of everyday life. - Ian McDonald
ON DECEMBER 11, 1997, a week before the general election of December 18, this newspaper carried an article by this writer, headlined, "Could there be a coalition government?"... - Lloyd Williams