The Fifth Column

One might say that all the doors we pass through in our lives are ours. They belong to us, just because we passed through them, or we belong to them

There will be rejection in the form of no replies, which will haunt you for days. Keep going.

"I’ve been using a company name and have played with the idea of talking to clients about “us here at the office”… but I’ve realised it’s just me. "

As Picasso said, though he may have had TS Eliot’s words put in his mouth: “Good artists copy; great artists steal.”​

‘The revolution has spilled onto the screen’

Emails from clients and colleagues by far outnumber those from friends and family

More than a million fans have signed a petition to have the last season of Game of Thrones redone

By the time Game of Thrones is scheduled to air on Showmax, I’m asleep. That’s just the way I roll and no amount of suspense is going to change it.

Tony Yengeni’s tweet implied Mashaba should be necklaced. He has been widely criticised for this, and the DA has laid a charge.

Are we so in thrall to images of wealth that we would just stand there, agog at the spectacle, and not wonder about all this wasted electricity?

Why would a pastor who was not only made rich by God but is also presumably protected by God need guard houses?

In Leaving Neverland two men make allegations refuted by the family of a dead man unable to defend himself

Pope Francis has caused something of a storm by advocating a change to the Lord’s Prayer

‘I was born to be 40’

To be resolute is to be unwavering and they waver (in the form of waivers), taking away our right to demand logic