It is exactly a year since South Africa’s ambassador to the United States, Ebrahim Rasool, was ordered out of the country for apparently having expressed criticism of President Donald Trump. According to US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, Rasool is “a race-baiting politician” who hates President Donald Trump. As a result he had to go. […]
May 27, 2025
ISRAEL’S MAMMOTH SICK JOKE This week saw the horrible unravelling in Gaza of a grotesque public relations stunt that might better — if inadequately — have been described as a mammoth sick joke. It was in the chaos prompted by the “intervention” of the hastily founded and clearly politically motivated Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and its […]
January 6, 2011
George Soros is a household name associated mainly with philanthropy, but also for his advocacy for “open societies”. This, his ninth book, probably stands in place of an authobiography; it is by turns interesting and annoying, but provides considerable insight into a eccentric whose concerns are widely shared, even if his notions about the way forward may not be.
March 16, 2026
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