The fate of the Chagos Islanders should only be determined by the Chagos Islanders themselves
It is the likes of emergency services —the firemen and the paramedics —who bear the brunt for shortfalls in the public purse
‘The persecution of the weak and the vulnerable finds new iterations all the time’
‘In its hour of need, Britain is now turning to its former colonies for help’
Allowing infrastructure to break down, because of negligence or direct action, puts lives in danger
Racism does not just exist in spurts of verbal activity like that of Adam Catzavelos’s alone
‘If Mashaba was intending to out himself as a disciple of the orange bloat filling the US presidency, he did extremely well’
‘Although the timing of the Turkish crisis was unpredictable, the warning signs have been there for months’
‘Land reform has never been just a nice-to-do. Both for reasons of equity and to provide a base for economic growth, it has always been a have-to-do’
‘Today, women might be politically free like all other South Africans, but they remain enslaved in the shackles of a predatory patriarchy’