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GIVING more freedom to some can mean denying it to everyone else. Which is precisely what a new government policy document threatens to do.

WE hear much about why the police should do more to protect the people. We may need to hear more about why the people should do more to protect themselves from the police.

WE hear much about why the police should do more to protect the people. We may need to hear more about why the people should do more to protect themselves from the police.

HERE and across the water, the past week reminded us that elected politicians either do not know or care that the gap between them and the people continues to widen.

HAS America’s government figured out that it should negotiate with those it now bombs? Probably not. But, if it and other governments don’t see this, we will all continue to pay.

WHAT could the government do if it really wanted a bargain which would build a fairer, faster growing, economy?

THIS country’s democracy is threatened not only by those who say they would like it end, but by elites who insist that they want it to stay.

THE daily news is telling us that this country is not immune from the disease which afflicts the West. We may escape the worst of it, but we have no room to be complacent.

THIS country’s political parties may claim to care about the many who vote for them. But they have just confirmed that they care far more about the very few who pay for them.

SOUTH AFRICANS don’t have much respect for people from other countries – unless they are wealthy and white.