Sometimes it is the smaller things that tell you the most. Sometimes you understand what is happening in this country not by the big national picture, but in the commonplace

There can be few phrases more abused – and weaponized – than “woke” and “cancel culture”.

A few recent news stories deserve to be highlighted, in case people missed them or their significance.

Court reporters get information and documents from both sides of any case they are covering, routinely.

The recent attack on Salman Rushdie revived a piece I published a decade ago about the author’s aborted visit to South African in the week when the fatwa against him

I had cause this week to look back at an old South African newspaper from the 1970s, when newspapers were at their financial peak. I was struck by the wide

Social media is usually blamed for the spread of disinformation. But I observed this week how mainstream media plays a key role.

The media story of the week has to be Meta’s publicly-available trial of its artificial intelligence chatbot, BlenderBot3.

If you want insight into the state of the ANC, read their media and communications policy document from last weekend’s conference.

When earlier this year Multichoice dropped RT, the television voice of Vladimir Putin, there was a debate about whether it was a good thing.  Was it valuable to get Putin’s