R.W. Johnson
R.W. Johnson, an Emeritus Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, is the doyen of international commentators on South Africa. He lives in Cape Town.
A light in the darkness
A pioneering school ofers a new vision for South Africa’s failing education system
Speak loudly, and carry a small stick
The Tory Party under Rishi Sunak has been all bark and no bite
Stop loving losers
Rishi Sunak does not deserve the media’s perverse rehabilitation project
Old man shouts at Trump
The US Presidential debate was a tragicomic spectacle
Say it ain’t so, Joe
How democratic is a shadowy cabal conspiring to hide the fact that Biden is too frail to govern?
The renovation of the Heal’s Building
Londoners are sentimental about the early-twentieth-century Tottenham Court Road store, Heal’s
The Conservative love affair with petty prohibitionism
How much time has been wasted on trivial legislation?
Prophetic warnings
Error is the joy of pedants, be the error serious or trivial
The stultification of the liberal mind
Ed Davey’s anti-political campaign is darker than it looks
Alcibiades
The Ancient Greek orator, philanderer, drunk, traitor and hero would have felt at home in modern politics
Fined over facts?
Financial censorship is not the right way to confront the AfD
The exec on an unfiltered journey
It seems dangerously liable to foster neuroticism and credulity