South Africa
Reassessing Islam
‘I’m newly sympathetic to sane, smart, broad-minded Muslims who have lately been lumped in with the kooks getting all the press’
The Silencing of South Africa’s Greatest Cricket Side
Most of the world-beating cricket team of the 1970s were anti-apartheid. Now they are shut out from the national game
Hullabaloo in the Great Karoo
South Africa’s desert is a battleground between astronomers and gas companies
Johannesburg: Hard Pressed
‘I would like to think that all the politically correct Brits who lined up to condemn me for “juxtapositional racism” might say a word or two about the extinction of media freedom in a major Commonwealth country, but I am not holding my breath’
Richard Goldstone
The South African judge’s Gaza report is just another example of his intensely political attitude to the law
Beyond the Myth of Mandela
As Jacob Zuma takes over as South Africa’s president, the ‘Beloved Country’ needs to break with idolatry
Why Remoaners should back Boris
“Boris, ironically, now offers Remoaners the best chance of a soft Brexit, or at least a sensible one. And to those who want a second referendum—’the people’s vote’—there may even be a chance of that too.”
On the road
“In the summer of 1980, in the grip of some Kerouac-ish fantasy, I opted to hitch-hike from Laredo to New York”
Discovering the Great War of China
A third of a million Chinese labourers helped the Allies defeat the Kaiser, but their huge unsung contribution ended in betrayal