External affairs, domestic battles

Our governance and policy-making are routinely held hostage to political squabbling.

Parliament is again in turmoil over what our politicos think they understand rather than what seems to be the case. The media cacophony over the United States government’s State Partnership Programme (SPP) fuelled the discourse inside and outside Parliament, and looks eerily similar to the uproar over the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) agreement. And once again, there is a real danger mainstream journalism may be losing the agenda to the social media click bait.