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Inflation and incumbency: a tiger on the prowl

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A key theme of global politics is starting to emerge: incumbents shouldn’t sleep too soundly – the tiger of inflation is loose and scenting blood.

Show South Africans you are serious

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It is approximately 680 days until the 2024 national and provincial elections, elections that will be unlike anything we’ve seen: an election in which the

Boris Johnson: he let the moment move on without him

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It feels like only last week: the Conservative Party, with Boris Johnson as leader, charging to the most significant Tory election victory since Margaret Thatcher.

Post-ANC governance: is this it? 

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We’re four months into new governments in some of the key cities of our country. And after more than 120 days of the trial run

Ignorant armies, confused alarms of struggle and flight

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‘And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.’ From Dover

Democracy denied: FAN takes fight for free and fair elections for all to High Court

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02-03-2022 Freedom Advocacy Network Media Statement 2 March 2022 Democracy denied: FAN takes fight for free and fair elections for all to High Court The

Catch ’24: Trump, DeSantis, and the future of the Grand Old Party

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Is the Republican Party inching towards a post-Trump era? A recent article in The Economist looking at polling and fundraising numbers from the United States

Catch ’24: Trump, DeSantis, and the future of the Grand Old Party

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Is the Republican Party inching towards a post-Trump era? A recent article in The Economist looking at polling and fundraising numbers from the United States

Human dignity, property rights, and the land of monsters

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The notion of property rights is often considered or treated, even by proponents, as some separate conceptual set of things – something that can be

Abandoning the field when there’s everything left to play for

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It’s uncontroversial to say these days that South Africa is in the grip of a collective sense of doom. It seems that the only piece