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In defence of an idiot

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The scene in the video of 25 March is a quiet street in Boston, Massachusetts. A woman wearing a burka and a white coat is

Bozell may be the US ambassador and he’s not housetrained!

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For some time now there’s been a collective wish that Koos Bekker would rock up unannounced at News24 and hold court with an urgent intervention:

I could never stop following Steyn …

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I couldn’t even try being impartial when writing about the broadcaster Mark Steyn because he’s all I’ve ever really known. Most impressions I have of

Smarmy Carney looking for a barney

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There once was a BBC journalist – a Canadian liberal who was also an academic and wrote for London’s The Observer newspaper – who one

Can SA make biltong out of beef between Europe and US?

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The beef currently between the US and Europe should be observed, because it’s instructive for the pending beef between the US and South Africa –

Slap the British Marxists who influenced ANC!

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When King Charles II returned from exile in 1660, he carried with him some impressive grievance. Upon his restoration he ordered the remains of the

The narrative is trembling

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This may surprise you, but South Africa’s most troubled editor, Adriaan Basson, doesn’t actually like Donald Trump – kind of startling because you’d never know,

Rasool not the man for the job

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Ebrahim Rasool is one of those politicians with the best intentions and the worst outcomes. A hooker could die in his hotel room, and it

The fig leaf of DEI

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Before an idea qualifies as bad, it has to pass through a series of tests, but Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, or DEI, bunked those exams

Lessons from Zimbabwe

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It’s the 5th of November 1997, and one of Robert Mugabe’s flunkies is loitering near the fax machine at the office on the corner of