Overtaken by Tech
It was voice simulation that did it. He retired in 2006 at the age of 60, and I quit the rat race in 2010, also
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One Settler, One Bulletin
I feel unsettled. Besides being unpleasant, this condition is inappropriate for a woman of a certain age. I should be in a state of feeling secure – even a trifle complacent or smug. Socrates may have thought that an unexamined
Dealing with China
In today's Daily Friend Show, Nicholas Lorimer, Michael Morris, and Ofentse Donald Davhie chat about growing trade relations with China, and solving housing problems in SA. https://www.youtube.com/live/fX8ot5kOX1A?si=OEbxwp9av3LsmhQB
Loud commentary, quiet voters: the DA that Steenhuisen leaves behind
One of the most persistent analytical mistakes in South African politics is the failure to distinguish between noise and public opinion. The two are repeatedly conflated, even though they behave very differently. In writing my book about the 2024 election
Why is racism bad?
Racism is prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism toward a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular racial or ethnic group. Forms of prejudice, or hate, are definitely bad when they inflict, or advocate inflicting, physical harm
The Darkest Prince
There’s a place called Lygone Street in Melbourne, Australia, that was once the patch of a violent thug called Alphonse Gangitano. Gangitano featured in the hit series Underbelly (2008) detailing the carnage of the city's gangland killings. He was originally
Next leader of the DA?
Nicholas Lorimer and Hermann Pretorius discuss the likely next leader of the DA, the Value For Money Bill, and recent by-elections. https://www.youtube.com/live/eHas5G9wE1M?si=JEfxTno3E-bgYtJq
Uganda: Idi Amin 2.0 loading
Three weeks after Uganda’s highly compromised election allowed Yoweri Museveni to retain power, the leader of the opposition National Unity Platform, Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu (widely known as Bobi Wine), is on the run while his wife has endured humiliating intimidation
A muscular liberal solution to the immigration problem
Classical liberals have stood uneasily aside as the immigration debate in the West proceeds without us. Conservatives want remigration and closed borders, while progressives are eager to embrace ideologies and values hostile and destructive to Western civilisation. Liberalism has always been the sensible voice in all