The artificial breaching of the mouth of Lake St Lucia in early January has elicited a surprising volume of negative coverage. But the previous (2016)

Elon Musk is now supposedly the richest man in the world. Although he is the market leader, he is not the only manufacturer of electric

A recent decision by the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Taiwan will give the Biden administration a long-term headache on America’s China policy. 

Would you take a vaccine from a government that denied HIV caused AIDS? Would you take a vaccine from a minister who recommended Virodene, a

I don’t suppose many readers could imagine anything written about linguistics being at once amusing and intelligibly insightful, but a brief passage from some of

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The other night I watched the Netflix documentary on Dominique Strauss-Kahn, or, as he is widely known in the press, DSK.  Room 28016: The Accusation

On 15 January during an interview on Radio 702, President Ramaphosa talked about relief packages saying “We do not have the money: that is the

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In parts one, two and three of this series on the World Health Organisation, we looked at its poor response to the Covid-19 pandemic, its