Why I agree with Novak Djokovic
| By The Medic | With the great Serbian tennis champion dominating the news I thought I would try and explain why I totally agree with him. While the corona…
London & The World – SLR
Simon Lincoln Reader It was only because of a lovely old seamstress called Martha – and my friend Grant’s restaurant – that I didn’t bomb the shops in Parkview when…
Letters to Lord David Owen
by Hannes Wessels I publish the correspondence below because I think it will be of interest to people wanting to better understand Rhodesian and Zimbabwean political history but also because…
Poor Meghan, Michelle and Serena.
I have not been able to watch the full Meghan Markle/Oprah interview because I’m prone to nausea and she makes me feel unwell. I’m also a poor judge of people…
SOS – Steve On Sunday
SOS Steve on Sunday 28 February 2021 Greetings my fellow happy taxpayers, Today, and the previous two days in South African history are quite some days. On 27 February 1881…
A Letter to Lord David Owen
by Hannes Wessels An acquaintance, having read my book, ‘A Handful of Hard Men’ which covered the Rhodesian war, the SAS and the political context of the time, penned a…
SOS – Steve On Sunday
SOS Steve on Sunday 21 February 2021 Greetings my fellow strugglers, Well, that’s St Valentine’s Day once again done and dusted, the umpteenth time in five decades that I have…
London, and the World
In the same week that Rand Merchant Bank’s CEO James Formby warned that the country’s recovery will be beset by another wave of skills immigration, South Africa’s erratic Minister of…
Be Careful What You Wish For
by Hannes Wessels Just recently I have received a flurry of emails and messages signaling alarm at the contents of the Expropriation Bill which is soon to go before the…