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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The end is nigh
- By David Bullard
- . Mar 8, 2020
In the 1970s when I lived in London I would walk past an elderly man who stood near Charing Cross station with a perpetually worried
Dear Woke People
- By David Bullard
- . Mar 1, 2020
I don’t usually play requests, but when 805 people clamour for the same song, what is a guy to do? It all started last week
A week of apologies
- By David Bullard
- . Feb 23, 2020
I’ve often wondered who decides what day should be allocated to what fashionable cause. Is there, for example, a secret committee who meet and decide
Slimming down Eskom
- By David Bullard
- . Feb 15, 2020
I knew of a company once where some of the head honchos became a bit bored doing the jobs they were handsomely paid to do.
A law-abiding citizen? Really?
- By David Bullard
- . Feb 9, 2020
I wasn’t too sure whether to laugh or cry this past week when the ANC leapt to the defence of serial absentee accused Jacob Zuma,
The oncoming train
- By David Bullard
- . Feb 2, 2020
The first volume of my Sunday Times ‘Out to Lunch’ columns came out in 2002. Not surprisingly the book was titled ‘Out to Lunch’ (its
Gay vs God
- By David Bullard
- . Jan 26, 2020
This week was ‘lesbian outrage’ week both on social media and, indeed, in the mainstream press. Various news sources chose the story of how a
Nommer, asseblief
- By David Bullard
- . Jan 19, 2020
Last Friday week we had another bout of load-shedding between 6pm and 8pm. The official period of load shedding in our area is shown as
The gambler’s dilemma
- By David Bullard
- . Jan 11, 2020
I’m not a regular visitor to casinos. However, like many South Africans no doubt, I have been lured at some time in the past to
Woke meerkat manners
- By David Bullard
- . Jan 5, 2020
Years ago, I spent a couple of days in Oudtshoorn during a touring holiday. If you like ostriches or are in the market for feather