Opinion

We have just had the second Nuclear Security Summit, in Seoul. It got surprisingly little attention from the international media although 53 countries attended.

It is time for us to start interacting more assertively with cruise-ship visitors, reckons Chris Skellett, of Warrington.

I have been thinking about immigrants of late. And I'm partly prompted to put pen to paper about them by the snide, patronising and sometimes outright racist attitudes that are thoughtlessly propagated about them.

The pattern is familiar by now. But that does not make it any easier for those affected. Or the process any less cynical.

The word "science" come from the Latin root scientia, which means knowledge.

Was it a gamble? Could I trust the Queen of Cookery to do the right thing by my Anzac biscuits, or would she be tempted to let them go limp and lose the snap we believed necessary in an A and P show prize-winner?

Last Wednesday, just as Chinese Vice-president Xi Jinping arrived in the United States for a four-day visit, US President Barack Obama told an audience of American workers in Milwaukee: "Manufacturing is coming back!"

What do election scrutineers do and are they useful? John Neilson, a polling place manager, examines these questions.

Prepare the high altar for sacrifice. The Labour Party can dither no longer. Some of its most sacred cows are in need of slaughtering.

It will come as little consolation to Phil Goff that friends and erstwhile foes have been so generous in their post-election assess- ments of the man and his career.