This week the panel starts with Cricket South Africa’s Newlands ticket debacle, where ordinary fans were largely shut out of the England Test while expensive tour packages dominated access. Marius Roodt explains how only about 10 000 of roughly 70 000 tickets for the first four days were reportedly available to ordinary fans, while many supporters were pushed towards costly package deals. The discussion then moves to the United States, where Richard Tren breaks down the midterm primaries, Donald Trump’s continued grip on the Republican Party, and the risks this creates in key races such as Texas. The panel also discusses the rise of the horseshoe right, the overlap between extreme left and extreme right politics, and the growing problem of antisemitism in American political life. Simon Lincoln Reader then takes the conversation to London, where the Unite the Kingdom march and the Nakba rally revealed the deepening cultural and political divide in Britain. The panel discusses Keir Starmer’s response, the use of facial recognition technology, the future of Reform and Restore Britain, and whether British politics is moving from a normal party contest into something more cultural and more volatile. Back home, the team examines President Cyril Ramaphosa’s latest defence of BEE, especially in the mining sector. James Myburgh explains why the mining charter damaged South Africa’s gold industry, how the nationalisation of mining rights created long-term uncertainty, and why Ramaphosa appears unable to admit the economic cost of the policy from which he personally benefited. The episode closes with the MK Party’s brief and chaotic attempt to create a new brains trust, before rapidly insisting that Jacob Zuma remains firmly in charge.