27 June 2026Good Morning
Below follows today’s briefing from The Common Sense.
Today's Briefing
Top 5 Stories
Columns
Private Security Industry Will Save SA From Hell This Week
Tomorrow marks what is effectively D-Day for the 30 June anti-foreigner protest deadline – behind the scenes South Africa’s vast and highly skilled private security industry has been working closely with the state to avert a collapse into the hell of the KZN riots of 2021.
Politics
South Africans Back Nuclear Power
What South Africans really want is whatever keeps the lights on.
Politics
The World is Warming but That is Not a Problem
Speaking at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference in London, Steven Koonin offered a sober corrective to the climate panic shaping much of Western public policy.
Columns
ARC vs Davos and a Way Back for the West
The Common Sense spent much of the week at the ARC conference in London, known by its critics, and some of its proponents, as “the Davos of the right”.
Columns
Lessons from the US-Canadian Border
RW Johnson writes on the history of the relationship between the United States and Canada.
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30 June March, Keir Starmer Resigns, the ARC Conference, and Is Johannesburg Better Than London?
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.
