So, the ref is giving us the special opportunity to earn the 3 points we already have from a drop, to allow us to rather earn them in a penalty… It’s all happening today 😵‍💫 Before the doc arrived 🏥

Wat ‘n gemors. Bad cal, after odd call, after bad call. And Rassie calling out numbers like a bingo game on a ship. At least we go into half time with a try. The Azzurri doing far better than expected, but under the strangest conditions. And the ref, well… Let’s hope Part 2

16 v 14 #GoBokke

16 v 13 now #GoBokke

Mooi 🔥 #GoBokke 13 is our lucky number #SSRugby

And glory is ours 🔥 #GoBokke #BMT #ITAvRSA #SSRugby Tonight we eat lasagne - with biltong shavings 😉 🍻

First 50 minutes were fugly in the extreme. What a mess. But we’ll take the win Springboks #ITAvRSA

Not often you get to see England thoroughly thrash the All Blacks. Well played England. Talk about the War of the Roses 🌹 vs 🥝

The thing to understand about social-media grifters like #TuckerCarlson is this: they’re always the little man behind a very large curtain. I’ve been thinking about demagogues - the performers who pretend to be leaders but rely entirely on fear, grievance, and emotional

Why I Believe South Africa Is On The Up open.substack.com/pub/mikeabel/p…

I asked Perplexity to coldly and objectively analyse the personalities of Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens and Nicholas Fuentes and similarities between them and the Nazi propaganda machine. This is the Perplexity response without a single change: There are indeed striking

What a magnificent performance and powerful statement by Mark Kondratiuk 👏👏👏 #NoToHate youtu.be/amIOw4BDVAM?si…

My desk looking very The Up&Up Group “tangerine” this morning. Just got my morning cuppa and it made me smile, how many internal touchpoints are landing our new #branding. I guess when you rebrand, it’s always better to err on the side of overkill than subtlety. Just waiting

The Walls We Forgot to Build We stopped worrying about physical armies at the exact moment we should have started worrying about invasive ideas. Today, no soldier has to cross a border when a bad idea can cross a screen in milliseconds. No tank needs to roll down your street

In 2025, and looking ahead, the fiercest debates about land colonisation distract from a far more dangerous and insidious conquest: the attempt to colonise your mind. Think about it. Power no longer needs physical territory when it can capture thought hijacking reason with