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TOM EATON | As myths flood us again, the race is on to build the fanciest Ark in politics (opens the original)
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Over the last few days, tabloids both sacred and profane have begun to ask a question that feels like the pure, distilled essence of 2026: have we found Noah’s Ark? According to a variety of dubious reports, a team of “researchers” is planning to drill core samples on a Turkish hillside to establish whether the famous boat did, in fact, come to rest near Mount Ararat and leave the large, boat-shaped depression currently being explored. It goes without saying that a large, boat-shaped depression
TOM EATON | We treasure beliefs about ‘who we are’, but it’s all just petals on a stream (opens the original)
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We South Africans might not have figured out exactly who we are, but as we pack away the Heritage Day regalia, more or less in agreement about what makes us us, spare a very small thought for British conservatives, currently in the throes of an identity crisis. This week, British nativists were whipped into a fresh frenzy as conservative politician Jacob Rees-Mogg posted a video of himself poshly claiming that Britishness and Englishness were the same thing, and that anyone who had a British pas
TOM EATON | Post this on your social media and say goodbye to that US visa (opens the original)
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The United States says it will refuse visas to South African politicians it claims are persecuting ethnic minorities and sucking up to violent tyrants like Vladimir Putin, and I for one applaud it: everyone knows that persecuting ethnic minorities and sucking up to violent tyrants like Putin is the job of Donald Trump, and we can’t have foreigners muscling in on his turf. I’m being facetious, of course. There are a few parallels between us and the US, but in most ways our two countries are very,
TOM EATON | If AI is a threat, the tech broligarchs’ psychopathy is a promise (opens the original)
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It seems fitting, as our dying Information Age sinks into irrationality and self-destruction, that the big question of the moment is whether the tech broligarchy is about to kill us all or whether it is merely using the spectre of our automated genocide as a fundraising strategy. Certainly, parts of last week felt less like the 21st century than the 13th, as Jason Coxon, a young researcher at AI giant Anthropic, resigned over safety fears while AI oligarchs made cautious noises about possibly sl
TOM EATON | What’s the diagnosis for the DA now with its ‘bogus doctor’ Abdulkader Elyas relapse? (opens the original)
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It’s a busy time for South Africa’s political parties as they try to finalise their lists of prospective councillors, or, in the case of the ANC, try to figure out how to switch on a computer. But all of them must have paused on Thursday, feeling a flicker of dirty excitement, as they saw Donald Trump offer to buy votes for R80,000 each. Speaking to a gathering of his cult in Dallas, Texas, the American con artist-in-chief got right down to brass tacks. “Only I can make this promise to you,” Tru
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