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THE government is always eager to embrace the latest trends in Western countries. This week it followed their lead by making bigotry normal.

YOU wouldn’t know it if you follow the national debate, but the Constitutional Court’s ruling on the Phala Phala inquiry deals with a core issue facing democracy here.

HERE and elsewhere, racism is, most of the time, now fully non-racial.

HERE and elsewhere, racism is, most of the time, now fully non-racial.

THE coalition government is telling us who it cares about. And it is not the people who governments here have, since 1994, claimed to care about.

IF you believe you are born to rule, you resist reality when it says you are not.

HAS Donald Trump unwittingly stopped the surge of the hard right in the West?

IF you don’t think we need strict limits on the power of political leaders, look at who is running America and what damage he may yet do to the world

WHEN those who tell us what to think claim bigotry is the people’s choice, you can be sure that is they who are really to blame.

THE American soldier who reportedly said it was necessary to destroy a Vietnamese village ‘to save it’ would have liked many of this country’s politicians. They want to ‘save’ local democracy by undermining it.