Well, no, it doesn’t, or so I’d contend. We don’t even have to go so far as to dip into The Sacred Wood to justify the claim. “Yesterday and today wrote four pages, trivialities difficult to surpass,” ...

Some Western media organizations' obsession with the staircase episode shows how they are easily distracted by minor events and thus fail to focus on the main issues.

By Chen Weihua (China Daily)Updated: 2016-09-09 07:56 Comments Print Mail Large Medium Small ...

First, don't think of their concerns as "trivialities" or "bikeshedding." Those are judgmental words, and they're insulting. Their concerns are valid. They're just not important at the moment.

Current events are at once mind-bending and utterly commonplace. In the recent Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak-Anshul Kumar controversy, we witness a competitive sha ...

It was a great weekend for those who see most political actors, including the so-called party-challenging mavericks, as mediocrities (at best) dealing in trivialities and the superficial. Sarah ...

To waste government time on this issue is absurd in view of all the other issues the government ought to be prioritising, such as health service, education, war, transport, to name a few.