New News24/SABI polling puts the DA at about 40% in Johannesburg. Frans Cronje suggests that the DA should refuse to govern the city on those numbers, but rather win Gauteng in 2029, and fix it from a position of strength. James Myburgh counters by asking whether this is the moment to seize for the DA? Also this week: why the diesel price is at a record high while the oil price sits at its five-year average of about $100, Simon Lincoln Reader on Margaret Thatcher and whether Andy Burnham will end Thatcher capitalism, Richard Tren on the US Supreme Court’s new term, Frans on classical liberals and the Black Consciousness Movement, and James Myburgh on Fikile Mbalula’s misleading defence of the Expropriation Act. The panel also reflects on the third anniversary of the horrific October 7 attack on Israel.