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Online news participation dwindles

A report says fewer people are commenting and posting about news articles — and those who do are likely to be men, higher educated and politically partisan

The United States is crafting a new foreign policy that keeps the economic superpower at its centre

Where does SA fit into America’s ‘new consensus’?

The United States is crafting a new foreign policy that keeps the economic superpower at its centre

Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson poses for a photo wearing boxing gloves emblazoned with “Get Brexit Done” during a stop in his General Election Campaign trail at Jimmy Egan’s Boxing Academy on November 19, 2019 in Manchester, England. (Photo by Frank Augstein – WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Brexit to exit: The rise and fall of Boris Johnson

The outgoing PM rode his luck throughout his career, bouncing back from a succession of setbacks and scandals

The Shell Centre, a registered office of Royal Dutch Shell Plc, in London, U.K., on Friday, Dec. 3, 2021. Royal Dutch Shell Plc announced a major overhaul of its legal and tax structure that will see the company walk away from the Netherlands amid deteriorating relations with whats been its home country for a century. Photographer: Chris J. Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Shell shareholders support move to the UK

Shell will be the second big firm to depart for London after Unilever last year

Determined: Climate change demonstrators from the environmental activist group Extinction Rebellion protest in central London, promising two weeks of disruption. (Tolga Akmen/AFP)

Covid may collapse climate talks

When crises strike then selfishness prevails, as Britain has done with its vaccine ‘red’ travel list

Drivers queue for fuel at an Esso petrol station in Birmingham. Picture date: Tuesday September 28, 2021. (Photo by Jacob King/PA Images via Getty Images)

UK puts army on standby as fuel pumps run dry

Desperate motorists queued up at fuel pumps across Britain, draining tanks, fraying tempers and prompting calls for the government to use emergency powers to give priority access…

There is strong bipartisan and beneficiary support for making improvements to Agoa.

An African free trade area is in our sights

Successes and failures from other initiative such as the European Union will be instructive, but much work must be done before the African Continental Trade Area becomes a reality

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Covid-19: An opportunity for universities to regain public trust

The coronavirus pandemic has brought the role of universities in nurturing scientific inquiry and evidence-based policy-making to the fore

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How the Nigerian and Kenyan media handled Cambridge Analytica

Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta recently signed into law the Data Protection Bill. Passed after several years of debate and delay, the new law places restrictions on the…

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SPONSORED: Business in 2020: How the global economy is shaping up

Investors are keeping a close eye on what’s happening in the US, UK and China

We must address both the psychological and structural barriers that impede rational, truth-based politics among politicians and the general public. (AFP)

Are evidence-based decisions impossible in politics?

Human psychology and institutional incentives are powerful barriers to truth and reason, but both can be addressed

Political leadership is in a mess (Photo Archive)

Political leadership is in a mess

Ironically enough, a potent drive for reform of the capitalist system will come from the private sector

Faf du Plessis insists the Proteas will rebuild after being thumped in India. (Getty Images)

Brexit will boost South African cricket — du Plessis

Any tougher immigration controls after the British withdrawal from the European Union will mean fewer South African players in the County Championship

Spider-Woman: Lady Brenda Hale delivered a damning verdict against Boris Johnson

A tangled web: UK judge’s spider brooch trends online

Judge Brenda Hale delivered the court’s damning verdict against Prime Minister Boris Johnson with a huge glittery spider pinned to her right shoulder

The ruling is a huge embarrassment for Boris Johnson, who has insisted his suspension of parliament was entirely legal because it was time for a new session to deal with his ambitious domestic agenda. (Reuters/Francois Lenoir)

What does the ruling on the suspension of British parliament mean?

The court said that the advice the PM had given to the queen, who formally issued the prorogation order, was "unlawful, void and of no effect"

The news leaves some 600 000 tourists stranded worldwide according to Thomas Cook.

Thomas Cook folds, sparking worldwide repatriation of tourists

As well as grounding its planes, Thomas Cook has been forced to shut travel agencies, leaving the group’s 22,000 global employees out of a job

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The law aimed at blocking no-deal Brexit

The Brexit law that received royal assent on Monday is at the centre of a constitutional stand-off with enormous implications for Britain

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United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson. (Simon Dawson/Bloomberg/Getty)

Is SA ready for Bojo’s no-deal Brexit?

The trade between the two countries represents 18% of SA exports to its largest trading partner, the EU and 10% of EU imports from SA

British efforts to strengthen its position in the world are being undermined by its visa system. (Graphic: John McCann/M&G)

UK visas discriminate against Africans

No continent has suffered more from Britain’s ‘hostile environment’ immigration policy