While North Korea was in the headlines last week, what is potentially more threatening to regional security is China's continuing expansion of its naval assets in the South China Sea and the apparent acquiescence of the ASEAN nations in general and the Philippine's President, Rodrigo Duterte in particular.

China has become the largest economy on the planet and we’re witnessing a collective silent scream on behalf of the West in response to the loss of its worldwide dominion.

Ethics are guidelines, sometimes clear, often not so. And “goods”: be good, do all the good you can... All? Heavens! That’s very ambitious. Well, you can see that ethics can be extremely demanding. And practice virtue. This virtue of which I speak; it’s so important because ethics, as I have said, are not a matter of yes or no, but of nuance.

I saw one writer say that labelling is necessary for communication, otherwise it will be a puzzle for anyone to understand what any writer, commentator, politician or citizen stands for.