The image, by South African cartoonist Zapiro, is terrifying, and for more reasons than you think.
Fuck You Justice, we will have our way!
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
The peril of writing about Russia
Something I have always enjoyed about the US is its propensity for intensive navel-gazing. Hell, the mainstream western nations in general are all good at this, but the US has turned it […]
Russia's Folly: How their annexation of South Ossetia shows their weakness
There’s a game I used to play with my geopolitics university students. I’d get them to form a circle and then I’d ramble about in the middle linking them up with black […]
The remarkable power of remarkable people
Periander, however, understood Thrasybulus’ actions. He realised that he had been advising him to kill outstanding citizens, and from then on he treated his people with unremitting brutality. Herodotus, Histories What Herodotus […]
Celebrating the heroes, damning the cheats, and always loving the game
This Olympics, 2008, we mortals have been in the company of gods. Michael Phelps. Eight golds. Seven world records. Usain Bolt. Two golds. Two world records. No-one who watched Usain Bolt actually […]
South Ossetia: Russia and Georgia's dangerous game
In war, everyone loses. During the early 1990s, as the Soviet Union collapsed, Russia’s sphere of influence contracted until the waters of Europe were washing soggily up on Russia’s beaches. Capitalist or […]
Yahoo!’s hanging chads
Yahoo! (YHOO) is a famous listed company. At the height – back in 2000 – of the Dot Com bubble, their shares were worth almost $120 each. Heady days. Heady days. Anyhoo, […]
YouTube / Viacom lawsuit poses a threat to more than just civil liberties
In 2004, Yahoo turned over user information to the Chinese government that was used to track down a dissident journalist, Shi Tao, and send him to a labour camp. It was the […]
Scroguely Works: One Life
One Life, by Johnny Clegg, first released 2006, 16 tracks, ASIN B000I5YROM We’re on our way home to find our freedom and I’m on my way home to find you my friend […]
South Africa, where no-one dies of old age
“Who killed her?” asked the five-year-old daughter of an acquaintance upon being told that her granny had died. That she could have died of old age and natural causes never occurred to […]
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