John Gee

WITH its story of a boy accused of murdering a girl after his mind is poisoned through his social media reading, the Netflix series “Adolescence” has deservedly won praise from its many viewers and st...

THE tariffs that US President Donald Trump has threatened to slap on his country’s three largest trading partners have been justified, in part, as measures to counter the flow of the drug fentanyl int...

Where it once made moviegoers believe “a man can fly!”, CGI no longer dazzles these days, especially if the film’s script and storyline don’t fly

More Americans chose not to vote than cast their ballot for Trump or Harris

IN BRITAIN, there’s a time in late summer when media people talk about being in the “silly season”. That’s when there does not seem to be much real news to report and so pages and screens are filled w...

Nationalism seems to be on the rise – but a thought experiment shows how absurd its underpinnings are

IN SINGAPORE, there have been at least three recent legal cases where a defendant has claimed to be a “sovereign citizen”. This would supposedly let them be exempted from abiding by the laws of the la...

SOME 500,000 people die each year from drug abuse, says the World Health Organization. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that over 107,600 Americans died from drug overdoses in...

WITH the World Health Organisation saying that the end of the Covid pandemic is within sight and most anti-pandemic measures globally having been terminated, it’s a good time to consider what has been...