Paul Whelan

People hold different, sometimes mistaken expectations of the Zondo Commission of Inquiry into state capture in South Africa. They hear the ...

As I was impressed with Mitch McConnell's apparent position in the days leading up to Donald Trump's Senate trial,* am I surprised, ...

  Mitch McConnell’s speech in Congress this week was the finest a Republican could make, suspending fears that individual conscience and hon...

Having addressed readers on Trump more than once over his four degrading years, I write at this eleventh hour about Mitch McConnell, so that...

As I began with a short piece just two days* after David Cameron's calamitously misjudged Brexit referendum of June 23 2016, it seems fi...

It seems wholly inadequate to wish the usual 'Merry Christmas' after this awful year for everyone, so here are my authentic thoughts...

Is Donald Trump a fascist, plotting in his White House bunker?  Disconcertingly, the answer to the question rests with us. Fascism lies on t...

Can you believe a word of it? All those questions that occupied us before Covid-19 arrived to scoop the lot - the ones t...

  Brexit has not been 'done': anyone who has followed the plot at all will know January 31 2020 is only the date when negotiation...

One-Nation Conservatism under the Boris Johnson government?

One of the most elusive and disputed mysteries of life, if not the fundamental mystery, is how homo sapiens has a sense of identity and w...

Why would anyone vote ANC, given the party's record of corruption followed now, under President Cyril Ramaphosa, by division, bitter i...

The leaked Tory government report Yellowhammer , setting out the risks of fuel, food and medicine shortages following Britain leaving the ...

Every scientific hypothesis and theory attracts debate and dissent and people often think that is 'proof' the science is 'wron...

Someone asked me in the Comment section of a political website, What is liberal and democratic about this type of politics?   He was re...

Dear Elizabeth Please read this with all your care. There's nothing unpleasant in it, only two questions at the end only you in ...

As Britain displays every symptom of an advanced stage of madness, the key symptom being political paralysis, can anything be done?   ...

No government, it may confidently be said, would hold a referendum it expected to lose. And, of course, that is how referendums have be...

The received wisdom at present is that a Brexit ‘deal’ will be scrambled together between Britain and the EU at the last moment because th...

Perhaps it is superfluous to point this out, but all the articles, commentaries and inflammatory issues they raise are part of the 'na...

  You cannot describe an evening at Macbeth as entertaining, as lovely; rather I must say I have never found the play so absorbing an ev...

  Moore's Paradox, in the headline, is an effort to remind us how 'the truth' is not simple.   Pontius Pilate long ago as...

Except for asking how wide the universe is and what we are doing here, there is no more difficult question than why and how to teach Histo...

Consciousness is itself explaining itself. There is no answer. It is the piece of string asking how long it is, our questioning what came...

  You and I agree that race is a divisive issue in South Africa; I assume you would agree that is not surprising in view of the country...

21 March 2018 at 12:20:30 AM Life is full of surprises and I have just had such a lovely one: seeing L'elisir d'amore for the fi...

With politicians you have to distinguish between what they say and what they mean and between what they promise and what they do. It ...

My farewell to school at 18 before going on to university text of the original on 'A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Dreamer' ...

My farewell to school at 18 before going on to university (tap and enlarge to read or see a legible text published as 'Chant du Cygn...

  The world appears to be in more than its usual disorder. Religion is dividing societies and nations and, where religion is not doing it...