Blighted, Buggered, Bastardized…Blighty
(Zeitgeist)
When Nick Clegg ascended to the leadership of the Liberal Democrats – a party once described by a future Prime Minister (who we’ll get to later) as ‘a void within [...]
Read More- Posted on 13th May 2010
by Simon Reader - 0 comments
Pre-World Cup Diary: Scoundrels & Dead Horses
(Culture)
In 2002, amidst a famine he was complicit in arranging, then ZANU-PF Information Minister and party spokesperson Jonathon Moyo crossed the border in his Chinese 4 x 4 with trailer, [...]
Read More- Posted on 5th May 2010
by Simon Reader - 2 comments
Is the Pope a Catholic? And other complaints
(Zeitgeist)
Firstly I must apologise for the lack of recent updates but I have an excuse. Late on Sunday night a delightful group of four gentlemen busted into my office and [...]
Read More- Posted on 30th Apr 2010
by Jerome Mitchell - 2 comments
Wat sou De La Rey gedoen het?
(Culture)
“far better to use the top of the palate, best leave the back of the throat for masticatory purposes!”
Die stem. Die Matie, die swartgevaar.
The Afrikaner is being pushed into a [...]
- Posted on 21st Apr 2010
by Stuart Hayward - 9 comments
Easter Diary
(Culture)
The new 12th man is monumental. Something we dare not speak of, like skateboarding, is a grudging respect for Australians. An extract: an abandoned Greek baby is found outside the [...]
Read More- Posted on 9th Apr 2010
by Simon Reader - 1 comments
Whites To The Rescue!
(Politics)
The Economist traditionally treads lightly when it might be courting controversy particularly on matters of race so their leader on Haiti recently was enlightening. In a bid to proffer a [...]
Read More- Posted on 24th Mar 2010
by Hannes Wessels - 5 comments
The Mis-Education of Little Britain
(Zeitgeist)
James Jackson writes from London..
“Is Stoppard’s play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead simply glib and superficial?”
Some thirty years ago now, it was one of the English essay questions put to [...]
- Posted on 10th Mar 2010
by Guest Contribution - 0 comments
The Perils of Being Pale
(Zeitgeist)
Amongst the Mugabe-bred and fed kleptocracy there is an unusual badge or closer to the truth, ‘bulge’ of rank. While collar and tie might be a trifle passé in parts [...]
Read More- Posted on 24th Feb 2010
by Hannes Wessels - 1 comments