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
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing
California dying
The world’s dream factory now produces scenes from a dystopia
Israel does not run U.S. foreign policy
There is nothing wrong with questioning foreign influence — but that influence has been overstated
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
Do machines laugh?
The experience of amusement defies a reductionist approach to the mind
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?
NATO’s Ankara moment
NATO’s middle powers must not depend so heavily on the USA
