THE TALKING SENSE PODCAST
This week on Talking Sense the panel looks at what is happening in Milei's Argentina, the story of US bond yields, a decline in South Africa's murder rate, and how Nike learnt the adage "go woke, go broke."
This week on Talking Sense the panel tackles Mark Burke, media information operations, Ukraine, the NDP, the ANC, and Johannesburg’s decline.
In the latest episode of Talking Sense, the panel discusses new SRF polling on views on US-SA relations. Also discussed is the ANC's two eras, the ConCourt's Shell ruling, and Jason Arday.
This week the panel discusses the the fact that black South Africans are more keen to move to the US as refugees than white South Africans, the rise of the MKP, a strange decision by the Church of England, and what the DA has promised in its local government manifesto.
This week the panel discusses the Social Research Foundation and The Common Sense new national and Johannesburg, Durban and Pretoria polling.
This week, Talking Sense discusses IDAC’s capture, illegal mining, Fauci’s COVID diaries, Elon Musk and the media, and South Africa’s economic growth potential if it uses its electricity capacity properly.
In this week's edition of Talking Sense the panel covers Financial Mail Row, Anne Widdecombe's Murder, and changes in British politics.
The panel unpacks South Africa’s ICC debate, the real size of the middle class, JSE ownership, state capture in Tshwane, school politics, sports quotas, family collapse and the weakening of the West.
In this week's Talking Sense podcast, the panel breaks down the Bishops Diocesan Collage Pride flag controversy and elite institutions playing politics, the collapsing Iran ceasefire and its implications, and the politically motivated attacks on Tony Leon over lobbying and alleged "state capture".
This episode of Talking Sense looks at by-election data and what it says about the ANC's electoral chances, the 30 June "deadline," why rich people are leaving the UK, and the upside case for Jo'burg.
The panel meets in London for the first time and debates whether Johannesburg now offers young professionals a better life than London, alongside a deep dive into ARC and its challenge to Davos style elite consensus. They also unpack South Africa’s political and municipal strain, The Common Sense oil forecast, culture war flashpoints in the West, and the future of UK leadership under Keir Starmer and Andy Burnham.
In the latest episode of Talking Sense the panel explores forgotten political memory, US Iran strategy and Israel’s security dilemma, SpaceX’s valuation and elite reaction, South Africa’s shift toward an enclave economy, and the hidden architecture of party funding and influence networks.
This week's of episode of Talking Sense looks at a green hydrogen project in the Western Cape, the illicit economy, elections in California, and the impact winter has on South Africa's protest cycles.
This week’s panel dissects South African politics, deindustrialisation, Labour’s global lessons, police failures in the Henry Nowak case, Democrats’ missteps, and ANC-DA coalition polling insights.
This episode tackles Phala Phala, ANC foreign funding, farming and state overreach, British Labour politics, AI’s energy demands, and whether the DA should risk governing a broken Johannesburg.
This week’s panel covers CSA’s Newlands ticket debacle, Trump’s midterm risks, Britain’s deepening cultural divide, Ramaphosa’s defence of BEE, and the MK Party’s latest leadership confusion.
This episode revisits the Shelley Garland affair, the collapse of HuffPost South Africa, and what it revealed about wokeness. The panel then turns to Phala Phala, Ramaphosa’s impeachment danger, and the political price the DA should demand. They end on the collapse of Labour in Britain, and Trump’s China visit, where the real fight may be over the future of the dollar.
This week the panel discusses the DA's new proposed empowerment policy, fake polls, xenophobia, and the British local elections.
A hard-edged panel discussion unpacking the third assassination attempt on Donald Trump, the media and political climate around it, big tech tensions between Elon Musk and Sam Altman, shifts in global energy power after the OPEC split, and the growing governance struggles of the Democratic Alliance.
Is the world really in crisis? In this episode, the panel debunks global hysteria, explores the US-Iran strategy through revolutionary theory, and discusses the UK's controversial ambassador appointment, Roelf Meyer, and Cape Town's mayoral future.
