Not choking – just unlucky, Proteas

We know that South Africa, as a nation, is sport-crazy and that any loss is taken as a personal injury. Predictably, the couch coaches are crying that, yet again, our national cricket team, the Proteas, has choked in being beaten…

Four Takeaways From France’s Snap Election

[ad_1] A new week of frenetic campaigning will start in France on Monday, a day after the far-right National Rally party dominated the first round of legislative elections that attracted an unusually high number of voters and dealt a stinging…

Britain needs a fresh start

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Twice in the past half-century, in the swings to Margaret Thatcher’s Conservatives in 1979 and to Tony Blair’s New Labour…

GNU talks are done – now let’s work

We would hope that the craftsmen who designed and manufactured this Cabinet would have built it to last. At the time of writing this, South Africans still did not know which people would be making up the long-awaited government of…