Let terms like white supremacy, extermination and genocide remain where they lie buried – long ago and far away.
OPINION
How would a government determined to exterminate its indigenous population behave? Ask the Namibians. Or, more specifically, ask the descendants of the Herero people.
Namibia, formerly the colony of German South-West Africa, became a mandated territory of the Union of South Africa (a British dominion) following the First World War, before winning its independence (with Cuban military assistance) from the apartheid-driven Republic of South Africa in 1990.
Power does not want you to know this. Power wants you to celebrate ANZAC Day. Maybe it’s time we asked why.
Even if he has managed to corral enough MPs to back him, he has been so hobbled by the speculations over his leadership that his already lame prime ministership has been made even lamer, making it likely he limps to the election finish line in second place.
A citizenry trained to keep ‘problematic’ opinions to themselves swiftly learns to deliver responses that conceal as much as they reveal.
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Rebuilding the integrity of the police was listed as a “mission-critical” challenge following a 2025 Independent Police Conduct Authority (IPCA) report that revealed integrity failings across a small group of senior individuals.
The word for today is… meretricious (adjective) - 1 formal + disapproving a: tastelessly showy and falsely attractive b: superficially (see superficial sense 2) significant : pretentious 2: of or relating to a person who engages in sex acts and especially sexual intercourse in exchange for pay Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : Meretricious can
For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellors there is safety.
