Is this why they marched?

Social media bans for children: Good reasons, but watch out

Very soon, children under the age of 16 will be legally barred from using social media in many countries. Earlier this week, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said his government would ban social media access for under-16s. His government also

Child grants should be scrapped

In April 2023, I penned an article published right here on The Daily Friend titled "It's High Time Taxpayers Protested About the Child Grant Programme." My argument then was that the programme should be capped to limit its growing burden

Iran: a bloody mess of a deal

After three and a half months, billions of dollars, and thousands of lives, Trump has “negotiated” his way back to where Barack Obama left things in 2016.

Standing in the fire – Soweto 1976 and the cases that shaped me and others

On this Youth Day, 16 June, as South Africa once again marks the courage of the young people who rose up in Soweto in 1976, it is worth remembering something easily lost in our present climate of division: that the

Beyond the Gini coefficient

The Gini coefficient measures inequality, but it cannot tell us whether a society is free, fair, or open. To answer those questions, we first need to decide what we mean by equality.

From urgency to delay: what happened to South Africa’s ICJ case? 

Nearly two months after Hamas launched its deadly surprise attack on the State of Israel, the ANC-led government brought a case against Israel before the United Nations’ International Court of Justice (ICJ), accusing it of violating the 1948 Genocide Convention.

Remembering June 16th with Barry D. Wood

Nicholas Lorimer asks veteran American journalist about his career and his experience witnessing the events of June 16th 1976. https://www.youtube.com/live/3yIMJEWatV8?si=HwGOHQY70bqIL145