Book Review: Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning by Nigel Biggar
By Andrew Field The British Empire has been overly criticised, so much so that some, like the book’s author, view this as a “slanderous caricature that equates British colonialism with…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, Over the weekend the press reported that several Ministers are bickering with each other over methods to address our electricity crisis. The Min of Energy, Gwede…
The World That Was
Adrian Olivier, In China, quarter 1 GDP growth has been higher than expected at 4.5% beating the estimates of 4% growth from a Reuters poll of economists. Chinese consumers went…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, Thabo Bester is quite a character. The convicted murderer, rapist and con-man not only ran a successful business from his jail cell but he even had…
Lies, lies and more lies.
Will Keys, Oh, Tucker Carlson, the darling of Fox News, got an invitation from GOP Speaker Kevin McCarthy to take a trip to Washington, D.C. and view the Congressional videos…
The World That Was
Adrian Olivier Sunday 9 April – Sunday 16 April On Monday there was a mass shooting at the Old National Bank in Louisville, Kentucky. A lone gunman who was a…
The World That Was
Adrian Olivier, Sunday 2 April – Sunday 9 April Last Sunday OPEC+ (the thirteen OPEC members and 10 other countries, the most important of which is Russia) announced a surprise…
Good Prescience – Bad Prescience
Will Keys, Prescience: “The fact of knowing something in advance; foreknowledge”. I contrast and compare the 45th POTUS, Donald Trump, previously a NYC property developer with the South African born…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, Jeremy Gordin (70) experienced editor, author and poet, recently retired but as the wonderful journalist he was was still extremely active with regular weekly columns for…
The Lost Leadership Of The West
Hannes Wessels, There was a time when Britain led the world and I believe, in the main, made it a better place. WWII changed that and the Americans came to…