Steven Boykey Sidley
Steven Boykey Sidley is a professor of practice at University of Johannesburg, columnist-at-large for Daily Maverick and a partner at Bridge Capital. His new book "It's Mine: How the Crypto Industry is Redefining Ownership" is published by Maverick451 in SA and Legend Times Group in UK/EU, available now. His columns can be found at https://substack.com/@stevenboykeysidley
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Meanwhile in the land of AI − vendettas, firehoses, and the race for geopolitical immortality
The volume of political news over the past few months has been deafening. Mainly coming out of the US, of course, but everywhere else too.
Free speech − that old chestnut. Again
Free speech and its somewhat more expansive cousin, free expression, are slippery beasts (as we know). Laws erected to protect them are not impermeable −
Trump’s tariff thicket and the re-ordering of the global trading system
Now that the cheering and jeering at Trump’s April 2nd “Liberation Day” tariffs have died down and the global markets have firmly expressed their dissatisfaction,
Dismantling is easy, but rebuilding is hard: Trump doesn’t have the time
Writer and political commentator Rian Malan and I have had daily email arguments about politics for many years, particularly US politics. We disagree on much,
The Chinese are coming! The Chinese are coming!
The relentless waves of political news coming from the US have had an interesting side effect. All of us, even those with only a glancing
The fusing of politics and tech
There is something inevitable about the Trump/Musk duopoly currently wreaking havoc on previously solid global and domestic political pillars. Depending on where you sit on