This was protest theatre. Expressing pain and hope through art. I visited one of my favourite coffee haunts here in Marseille. The barista is a young French Canadian woman and I mentioned […]
South Africa: losing home
Gavin Chait
Economist, data scientist, entrepreneur, author. Fascinated by the frontiers of human progress: innovation vs ignorance; wealth vs poverty. Oh, and coffee. @GavinChait and https://gavinchait.com
Trump will win re-election, and he will remake America in South Africa’s image
When Trump was elected, I said that you had put an African “big man” in power. That wasn’t a joke, but the absolute truth. The clearest and most obvious indicator of that […]
Burden us with white men: L’Etranger
Burden Us with White Men — Sent forth the worst who breed — Bind our souls to exile Captive to serve their greed; To wait in heavy harness, On gammoned kakistos — […]
Brexit: Facts cannot be denied. Eventually there are nothing but consequences.
The Globalist: “We’ve run out of time, and no amount of clever denunciations or legislation or voting will change the inevitable progression of the choices we have made, and the facts we […]
Stupid Donald’s Trade War and the weakness of protectionism
The drums are beating and the lamps are going out all over the world; we shall not see them lit again until our own suffering compels us We stand on the precipice […]
China scraps term limits and births the foundation for future chaos
Xi Jinping’s only test of leadership was ensuring stable transition, and he just failed it Whether governed by laws, or the favour of the mighty, the most critical time in any political […]
Oxfam’s fall from grace
Oxfam, like the Catholic Church, discovers the price for failing to uphold the ethics they claim The house in Mfuleni was set alone amidst a rubbish-strewn dusty plain. Inside the house, inside […]
S&R presents the Donald J Trump Asshole of the Year for 2017: Aung San Suu Kyi
Assholedom, speculative aspirations, and the Nobel Peace Prize In 1993, Nelson Mandela and FW de Klerk (presidents of the African National Congress, and South Africa’s Apartheid-government National Party) were jointly awarded the […]
Bitcoin is certainly not money, but it might be a new type of gold
When is money not money? “Bitcoin,” declares Bitcoin.org, a site which coordinates Bitcoin’s open source software development and acts as an education resource for the public, “is an innovative payment network and […]
Superman is dead, and Donald Trump killed him: RIP America
Superman is dead, and Donald Trump killed him.
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