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Musicians are coming to the defence of Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift, both of whom Donald Trump has criticised and threatened. “Part of free speech is open discussion. Part of democracy is healthy public discourse. The name-calling is so beneath us,” said Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder.

South Africans are wearily attuned to governments’ Orwellian misuse of language. After all, South Africa is a country where a one-time government passed a law (the Natives Abolition of Passes and Coordination of Documents Act of 1952) which extended rather than abolishing the notorious pass system. This made it compulsory…

Training manual tip: Friendly fire isn't.

Hard to argue otherwise at this point.

The plan was simple. It started by retiring all government employees by offering them incentives to leave and never return. To avoid anarchy and keep authority, the police and military would be retained.

It matters less where civil servants work than who they work for – and that is one of the most centralised governments of any western democracy, says Simon Jenkins

One councillor said ‘local democracy has been thrown out of the window’ after the decision

"Showing off internal battles, be they ideological, personal, or otherwise, doesn't do anything to help the party"

The GOP spent months trying to toss out thousands of votes for Democratic Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs