The Bar will invoke the cab-rank rule, which generally requires counsel to accept a brief in a field where they practise, even when they dislike the client or cause. Yet the rule allows refusal where conflicts, competence, availability, improper instructions, fee issues or other special circumstances arise
Iran has drawn the line at Hormuz through sovereignty, anti-colonial memory and strategic endurance. Washington, Israel and Europe continue to answer with war, siege and sanctions
On Workers’ Day 2026, the typical white worker still stands far above the typical black African worker in a labour market built through conquest, land theft and racial rule
The Lego blocks have done what a thousand NGO reports cannot do. They have made it clear that the emperor is butt naked.
When foreign governments, organisations or political networks speak about offering South African farmers land, visas or farming opportunities abroad, they should define farming skill through competence rather than ownership
Errol Musk has dragged a racist myth to Russia’s door. Russia should close that door politely, firmly and publicly
United States President Donald Trump has turned Iran-US negotiations into a test of Brics power after threatening to destroy Iran’s bridges and power plants unless Tehran accepts Washington’s terms and reopens the Strait of Hormuz. The warning places China and Russia before a defining question. Can the multipolar order protect one of its strategic members […]
The West does not have a moral claim over African security. African states retain the right to choose partners according to their own historical interests. A multipolar world means nothing if African states must still ask Western permission before selecting allies, building armies, nationalising resources, regulating NGOs or rejecting political models that serve foreign capital more than African people
The Russian Embassy has moved to counter media speculation around Errol Musk’s visit to Russia, stressing that no farmer relocation programme exists and that the discussions relate to agricultural investment opportunities
Coverage of Ukrainian children often fixes blame on Russia and leaves the conduct of the Ukrainian government in the background, even though the evidence of exploitation, forced separation, weak oversight and institutional damage inside Ukraine’s own system is extensive and public