EDITORIAL - Brown reaching for UK leadership
Gordon Brown touched most of the right chords yesterday in opening his so far uncontested campaign to become the next leader of Britain's Labour Party and the country's next Prime Minister.
Politics is a picnic
The present public plea for peaceful politicking is pertinent and proper. However, I have a funny feeling that the call is being overstressed, abused and made ridiculous by some hard-boiled campaigners pretending to have thin skins, and claiming to be really hurt when their opponents throw words at them. (Jones)
State funding parties 'a can of worms'
One newspaper says the Jamaica Labour Party has no money, and the other that it is awash in it. This is what I call useless information, except to those involved in raising political contributions, and even then it's useless. (Ritch)
Mothers who father
In 1957, Edith Clarke published the West Indian sociological classic, My Mother who Fathered Me. Without having read it, many Jamaicans took as a given the notion that the great majority of families in this country were headed by deserted females with five children and a 'wutliss puppa,' somewhere in oblivion. (Taylor)
Promises, promises and reality
A certain political leader, while addressing a public political meeting in a rural area, is alleged to have promised to build a bridge in the district if they voted for his party. The people were amazed at this offer since there was no need for a bridge in the area. (Brown)
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