by Jonty Langley | May 1, 2015 | Opinion
Afropessimism. The word may be unfamiliar, but the concept won’t be. It’s the perfect description of that view we’ve probably all encountered: that Africa is a “basket case,” a single, hopeless country, a seething pit of hunger,...
by Jonty Langley | Aug 17, 2012 | Opinion
Cricket may not be a real sport as far as the Olympics are concerned – and, seriously, how do they decide that stuff? Shooting, walking and about 25,000 iterations of cycling make the cut, but rugby, cricket and darts don’t? Someone has blundered. –...
by Jonty Langley | Aug 15, 2011 | Opinion
“Socialism is a lovely idea, but it is a little naïve about human nature.” That’s a line you’ll hear repeated and reworded in classrooms, churches and cyberspace, whenever “the ideal society” and the inevitably flawed humans who...
