David Bullard
After 27 years in financial markets in London and Johannesburg David Bullard had a mid life career change and started writing for the Sunday Times. His "Out to Lunch" column ran for 14 years and was generally acknowledged to be one of the best read columns in SA with a readership of 1.7mln every week. Bullard was sacked by the ST for writing a "racist" column in 2008 and carried on writing for a variety of online publications and magazines. He currently writes for dailyfriend.co.za and politicsweb.co.za.
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An open letter to all open-letter writers
- By David Bullard
- . May 17, 2020
Many eminent people have written open letters to the president urging him to be more presidential. He’s probably too busy to respond but, if he
Going nowhere
- By David Bullard
- . May 10, 2020
One of the major casualties of the Covid-19 lockdown is going to be the effect it has on our tourism and hospitality industry. This was
Sliding into anarchy
- By David Bullard
- . May 3, 2020
Last Thursday was the 100th birthday in the United Kingdom of a man called Tom Moore, who happened to hold the rank of captain at
Eggs in one basket?
- By David Bullard
- . Apr 26, 2020
Now that I live in the Cape, I don’t have much cause to visit Johannesburg very often. The last time I was there was in
The gin trap
- By David Bullard
- . Apr 19, 2020
I had parked the car as far away from the shopping mall as possible, more with a view to getting some exercise walking to and
Running out of soap
- By David Bullard
- . Apr 12, 2020
Happy Lockdown Easter. I’ll bet it wasn’t too difficult for the kids to find the Easter Eggs this morning. But, never mind, only another three
The incredible rightness of being ‘elderly’
- By David Bullard
- . Apr 5, 2020
In troubled times like these it’s the little things that give pleasure. I’ve spent the past week religiously observing the lockdown and looking out enviously
The designer virus
- By David Bullard
- . Mar 29, 2020
I’m wondering if this 21-day government-enforced house arrest is going to be long enough. Nothing to do with catching or transmitting the new ‘flu du
The Covid-19 Requiem
- By David Bullard
- . Mar 22, 2020
Last Sunday I went to a concert at the Endler auditorium in Stellenbosch. It was a splendid performance of Brahms’ Requiem and it marked the
The reluctant traveller
- By David Bullard
- . Mar 15, 2020
Family members in the UK were due to board a cruise liner this weekend for a two-week trip around the Croatian coastline. Not surprisingly, the