The World That Was
Adrian Olivier Sunday 1 October – Sunday 8 October: On Sunday, a suicide bomber detonated an explosive in front of the interior ministry building in Turkey’s capital Ankara at about…
The World That Was
Adrian Olivier, Sunday 11 June – Sunday 18 June: On Monday, Italian media tycoon, politician, and billionaire, Silvio Berlusconi, who served as prime minister in 4 governments between 1994 and…
Pussy Galore
In 2021, the Adult Survivors Act (ASA) was enacted in New York State. It extended the Statute of limitations for survivors of sexual offenses and abuse to 20 years and…
The World That Was
Adrian Olivier, Sunday 23 April – Sunday 30 April On Tuesday, U.S. President Joe Biden finally and formally announced his running for a second term as President of the United…
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 World That Was
Adrian Olivier, Sunday 12 March – Sunday 19 March In the United States, former president Donald Trump has announced on his social media platform Truth Social that he expects to…
Africa is Burning
Hannes Wessels, Only through listening, reading and learning from experience over many years have I become an unrepentant sceptic when it comes to the received wisdom of the time; the…
A Watershed Moment.
Hannes Wessels, For a democracy to survive there needs to be a general consensus among the citizenry about the need for important fundamentals to be sacrosanct. One of those fundamentals…
The Writing Is On The Wall.
Will Keys, “In an earlier article, Will Keys drew some derision for suggesting Donald J. Trump and Elon Musk would be the saviours of the western world. With this in…