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Ugly people are probably not evil, but I’ve met enough people to suspect ugliness and moral failure occasionally share a bathroom. Before the professional victims have a panic attack, relax. I am obviously joking. Mostly. I’m not talking…

South Africans are preparing for another election season, which means the country is once again drowning in slogans, promises, outrage and manufactured certainty. Every party insists it has the answer, and every manifesto reads like a…

The internet promised humanity infinite knowledge. Instead, it often feels like we accidentally built an industrial-scale landfill for attention, entertainment and distraction. Artificial intelligence has accelerated this problem…

The next global order may emerge quietly, through negotiation, trade and technology rather than tanks rolling across borders. For decades, most of us have understood geopolitics through inherited twentieth-century frameworks: capitalism…

Artificial intelligence, particularly large language models, represents something far more important than just another technological convenience. We are watching the emergence of a system that can instantly compare arguments against logic,…

I am not a Jew and I’m not a citizen of Israel. I haven’t even visited Israel. I don’t trace my religion back to a holy

They say moving from one place to another – the packing of boxes, clearing of storerooms, throwing out of things you forgot you even had –

After the frenetic, upward-trending, mad thrills of 2016-2019… two years of panic, fear, lockdowns and hibernation ensued. 2022 (the first full year without nonsense) wasn’t ever

2022 is almost over, and very few of us will be celebrating the last year – in fact, the last three years – of our very

Sometimes I wonder if everyone has gone mad, if there are any adults left in the room? It’s 2022 and we’ve just been through a really

The elections are only days away, and that means you only have a few days left where the politicians will listen to you. I’m not going

Richard Spoor, an outspoken, controversial lawyer and commentator, found himself the centre of attention on Twitter last week for some bold, full-frontal nudity that shook both

Does your brand tell stories? Absolutely! And podcasting is the most modern medium of the ancient form of storytelling. Welcome to the era of on-demand listening

So what’s happening in podcasting? The short answer is a lot. Podcasting went up by 50% in 2018 (according to Nielsen) and then doubled from 2019 to

Thabo Mbeki was right: There really are two South Africas. Most people jump to the conclusion that we’re a nation divided along racial lines. Others think

If you google ‘Gareth Cliff’, one of the first links that comes up is this: The article is from November 2020 and has to do with

If you’ve ever heard a song and found that it resonates with you, you might start to question what that actually means. If you’ve ever heard someone sing

Well, this is more of a blog than anything I’ve written for a while… Covid has come to CliffCentral. We like coming up with clever alliterative

Not a week goes by where you don’t see two neanderthals abusing each other because they have a different point of view online. Do you wonder,

Sometimes you need to stop and take a breath. Perhaps last year’s pandemic and the resulting drastic lockdown measures gave many of us that opportunity. Armed