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Coming and going

In the good old days - and, incidentally, today is part of the good old days, about which you will one day reminisce...

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Are you populist?

This writer has mentioned on a number of occasions his preference for the liSwati version ‘detoriate’ informally placed in the vernacular as a...

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Nobody deserves to die

The writer finds himself is guilty; immersed in ambiguity. A little verse to start and end today’s article. Well, the title is ambiguous....

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A rising star extinguished

Let us look, today, at a politically challenging event that has recently taken place in the United Kingdom; both incident and treatment chosen...

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Malthus meant us

I remember the prediction of Thomas Malthus, the highly influential English economic and political thinker, that the food in the world would never...

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What’s in a name?

Quite a lot exists within a name. Only when one gets down to the task of examining the issue does one realise the...

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Peace contributions that Putin has made

The question implied in the title is one of the simplest measurements on record. The answer is nil. Driven by an obsessive need...

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Good to go: AI benefits

‘A new phrase for the new phase’. That’s my own. Sharper ones, introduced by others over the past years, were phrases like: That’s...

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Never a cross word

The reader is asked to forgive the writer’s carelessness in the title. What he meant was that there was never a crossword. Or...

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