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DESNÉ MASIE: Crypto is not going away, despite bitcoin’s recent crash
Demand has been reduced by a broad risk-off mood change in global markets
DESNÉ MASIE: UK consumers brace for Labour’s budget amid economic turmoil
Labour's policies heighten UK economic woes, with high inflation and consumer debt
DESNÉ MASIE: UK enters terrifying era of mass stabbings with London train attack
Side effect of the UK’s tough gun laws has been the horrific rise of knife-related violence
DESNÉ MASIE: How private credit could set off the next global financial crisis
Jefferies’ private credit exposure shows even large institutions are vulnerable to write-downs when underwriting standards slip or underlying borrowers fail
DESNÉ MASIE: The consolations of philosophy in a divided world
Jacques Derrida’s essay ‘On Forgiveness’ provides tools to understand how we can relate to and forgive those who have harmed us
DESNÉ MASIE: Left coalition score own goal, taking heat off Starmer
Infighting destroys golden opportunity for the recently formed Your Party
DESNÉ MASIE: Irony is thick in the air after Angela Rayner’s fall
Labour’s attack dog and UK’s deputy prime minister falls on her sword in property tax scandal
DESNÉ MASIE: SA lacks bandwidth to end Russia-Ukraine war
Ramaphosa is keen to be a potential mediator but SA may not have the bandwidth for it
DESNÉ MASIE: Global free trade needs disrupting - but not quite how Trump imagines it
Countries like the US that have until now benefitted from globalisation due to preferential trade agreements and domestic subsidies
DESNÉ MASIE: What SA can learn from Starmer and Mandelson’s foreign policy strategy
The UK ambassador to the US has long had an interest in SA and could offer discreet advice
