The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, Surprise! I’m still here and not in Australia. My trip has been postponed for medical reasons and I’m hoping to be able to leave in a…
The Rule of Law
Hannes Wessels, Growing up in Rhodesia I remember a police force, the British South Africa Police (BSAP), that was highly respected by the majority of people, and magistrates and judges…
Trump Troubles
Hannes Wessels, I seem to spend a lot of time swimming against the political tide. Over the years I’ve had countless arguments with people who loathed Donald Trump while I…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, At last, things are happening. A top-shot ANC cadre fingered at the Zondo Commission received a proper jail sentence. Vincent Smith, once a powerful MP and…
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…
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…
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…
The Trump Haters; What Now?
by Hannes Wessels Ever since Donald Trump came onto the political stage over ten years ago I have found myself engaged in verbal combat with countless people, many of whom…