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Try to be truthful about abortion

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The death of US Supreme Court Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg led to a frenzy of political, legal and medical speculation. President Trump immediately made clear

Try to be truthful about abortion

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The death of US Supreme Court Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg led to a frenzy of political, legal and medical speculation. President Trump immediately made clear

Trump, wildfires, and climate change

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President Trump has embarrassed me again. Visiting California to see the damage done by the devastating wildfires, he said they were not caused by climate

Trump, wildfires, and climate change

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President Trump has embarrassed me again. Visiting California to see the damage done by the devastating wildfires, he said they were not caused by climate

A very shallow very deep problem

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There is only one subject on Earth more sensitive than race, and that is women’s looks. Either subject can provoke intense feelings of hurt and

Speak gently to the mass murderer

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My blood turned to ice whenever I heard the very gentle reproaches recently spoken against Comrade President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe. The gentlest come

Can indifference beat racism?

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‘He walked the easy path of indifference to the uplands of tolerance.’ Thus wrote Winston Churchill of King Charles II, who did more than any

Will the rand survive?

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One edifice of the South African state has survived the African National Congress’s (ANC) wrecking ball. Since the ANC came to power, there has been

Corruption is ANC policy

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Helen Zille has given a dramatic demonstration of the dangers and follies of Twitter. She has shown us in exemplary fashion why politicians, including herself

75 years ago at Hiroshima

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75 years ago, on 6 August 1945, just before 08h15, some anxious Japanese heard a sound above. Fearful of what the skies might bring, they