South Africa
South Africa needs better policies, not just better vibes
Political change must lead to economic change as well
Ubuntu and the path to progress
South Africa cannot continue down the road towards conflict
The collapse of the “Rainbow Nation”
The rise and fall of secular religion in South Africa
A gift to pimps and traffickers
South Africa still, in many ways, operates as an apartheid state
The Boer War
Professor Jeremy Black talks about why the British found the Boers so difficult to defeat
Inside Ethiopia’s civil wars
Abiy Ahmed has joined the long list of Africa’s “democrats” who became dictators
All double dutch
Andrew Cusack says the influence of the Netherlands’ seaborne empire can still be felt around the world, from Manhattan and South Africa to modern Sri Lanka
Drink In to Help Out: Wines from the Western Cape
Henry Jeffreys recommends five wines to support South Africa’s wine industry as it recovers from the aftermath of the pandemic
Year’s mind: James Small and the 1995 Rugby World Cup
ASH Smyth reflects on South Africa’s historic 1995 Rugby World Cup win
Greatest team we never saw
The controversial South African cricket tour of 1970
Bonfire of the verities
Plotting a path through the new politics
Love, death and drink
Does inspiration really come out of a bottle?
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
Something has gone very wrong with “human rights”
When the “rights” of foreign sex criminals are being prioritised above the safety of Britons, we need change
No, Churchill wasn’t the bad guy
The debate over Britain’s wartime leader has been reignited by an ignorant revisionist account
No Kemi, liberalism hasn’t been hacked
Badenoch’s party brought us to this point. It was no accident
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
A taste of history
Travel to Italy to savour the majestic “Barolo of the South”
The danger of naive humanitarianism
The rejection of force is complacent and unsustainable
Should you really admit to regretting having kids?
Lamenting parenthood creates a psychological trap
