The Russians Know Exactly What They’re Doing
By Will Keys A well-informed publisher friend recently asked me a simple question:“Are you still sure the Russians know what they’re doing?” My answer is yes—and, if anything, even more…
When the Heavens Fall: How Justice Failed the Baden-Clay Family
By Will Keys In every functioning democracy there is an expectation—quiet, steady, almost instinctive—that public watchdogs operate above fear, favour, and fashion. Their legitimacy does not come from popularity but…
The Most Dangerous Conspiracy Is No Conspiracy at All
By Will Keys There are moments in public life when the simplest explanation is so outrageous that ordinary people instinctively reject it. They look instead for a hidden hand —…
The Prescience of Experience
By Will Keys The older I get, the more I see the future coming—because it always arrives wearing the past’s disguise. There is a strange comfort in watching the predictable…
Trump and the BBC
Hannes Wessels, What surprises me about the recent revelation that the BBC had deliberately edited the Trump speech delivered on January 6th, 2020, when protestors stormed the Capitol, to make…
Rhodies at the Zambezi River Bar
Remember When Duncan Clarke Contents About the Author The heat coming off the Zambezi and in the valley that October evening was the sort that clung to the skin like…
Rhodesia to Redemption: The Measure of a Man and a Nation
By Will Keys There are two ways to tell the story of Rhodesia. One is the official version: a colonial frontier that overreached, a settler republic that refused to bow…
Older, No Wiser
Britain’s Political ‘Establishment’ Hannes Wessels, It with some bemusement I read recently, in an article written by Professor Michael Evans who lectures at the Australian Defence College, of the panic…