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Instead of repeatedly rehashing past social and other assistance schemes implemented during the Covid-19 pandemic, people want government to competently address and resolve their current existential hardships By

The war in Ukraine shows how daily spin doctoring and propaganda repeatedly rehashed and recycled by the media and political leaders can systematically mask and occult the truth.

The choice of the electorate cannot continue to be about voting for the ‘lesser evil’.

The weaponisation of trade, the imposition of sanctions on sovereign foreign reserves and exclusion from SWIFT by the US could trigger a faster de-dollarisation among countries having the

Charles de Gaulle created a system where a surprise candidate can upend the presidential elections in France. Will it happen in 2022?

  The west has long defined racism as a function of colonial domination and discrimination. But in a changing world this definition must be challenged

In the UK, there is very little to stop a leader who doesn’t care to comply with unwritten norms

This is not the time for reckless adventurism. There is only one way forward

Polling trends suggest more letters could make their way to the 1922 Committee

Change can only come from the people. We above all need to cut loose from the shackles and trappings of a banana republic

  Fanon was brutally honest in his criticism of militants and Africa’s post-independence elites

By Jan Arden The media and observers have obviously noticed and reported the flurry of activities, inaugurations of round-abouts, fly-overs, laying of foundation stones, which have engaged the

The fundamental question being asked on all sides is whether orderliness will emerge out of the growing widespread dis-order. And, if so, by which means?

The MMM, the PMSD and other opposition parties are now reduced to pull their forces together in a nondescript alliance. The Labour Party remains prisoner of the delusions…

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