Uganda: Ritual Democracy and the Shadow of Succession
Andrew Field Uganda has voted again. The outcome is as predictable as gravity. Officially, a renewed mandate. Unofficially, a ritual long stripped of competition. The figures are tidy, the margins…
Perfidious Albion and the Modern Deep State
By Will Keys My book Perfidious Albion was not written as history for its own sake. It was written to explain the present. Based on the past, but pertinent to…
Rhodesian Intelligence: Myth vs. Reality
By Andrew Field The author is not here to defend Ken Flower or Derek Robinson, nor is there any interest in polishing reputations for sentimental reasons. What matters is clearing…
‘Spooks’ of the ‘Struggle Years’.
Hannes Wessels, As someone who has read and written quite extensively about the history of Rhodesia and then Zimbabwe, a recent article by James MacManus in the ‘Christmas Edition’ of…
The Price of Silence in Angola
Andrew Field, Angola is the quiet giant of the Southern African Development Community (SADC); present but rarely centred, mighty yet oddly muted. Vast in territory, rich in oil, and anchored…
Power Without Prosperity: Southern Africa’s Year of Stagnation
Andrew Field, Southern Africa in 2025 was a region still caught in its own contradictions. Governments spent the year juggling conflict, corruption dressed as governance, and the maintenance of power,…
Over His Skis: When Expertise Becomes Conceit
By Will Keys The Dunning–Kruger effect is not stupidity; it is unrecognised overreach. It afflicts the competent who stray beyond their true mastery and mistake confidence for comprehension. Classical history…
Virtue-Signalling as Sabotage: How Alinskyite Moralism Corrodes Western Debate
By Will Keys The modern West is trapped in a peculiar communicative fever: reasoned dialogue is interrupted mid-thought, not by argument, but by a rehearsed chorus of moral posturing. What…
The Climate-Change Fraudsters.
Hannes Wessels, Twenty one years ago ‘The Guardian’, that fountain of fake news, published an article based on a Pentagon report which helped drive the ‘Global Warming’ hysteria then sweeping…
What a Deep State Really Is — And Why the West Must Finally Face It
By Will Keys The phrase “Deep State” is tossed about so casually these days that the public either dismisses it as nonsense or fears it as something mystical. In truth,…