David Buckham

Jan 16, 2025 | businesstech.co.za | David Buckham

“What kind of American are you?” asks the militiaman of each journalist. He speaks calmly before nonchalantly killing one Asian-featured reporter, then asking again, and shooting another. Standing alongside an open-pit mass grave of civilians he’s recently murdered, this psychopath in fatigues, played by typecast villain Jesse Plemons of Breaking Bad fame, now demands a response from the other three traumatised journalists while his accomplice starts pouring lime over the many bodies.

Dec 10, 2024 | businesstech.co.za | David Buckham

Who would have thought, just three weeks ago, that Bashar al-Assad’s 50-year old autocratic and horrifyingly violent regime in Syria, would so easily collapse under the pressure of a ragtag rebel force? Or that both Russia and Iran, long-in-the-tooth allies of Assad, would so quickly withdraw their officials, after long defending one of the worst dictatorships in history?

Dec 4, 2024 | businesslive.co.za | David Buckham

What a stunning volte-face. What a phoenix-like surge from the ashes of despair. To have had an election stolen from one’s hands in 2020, ripped from one’s rightful grasp by scornful, thieving Democrats, was inconceivable. To be accused of paying off a porn star, of stealing some meaningless documents, of evading tax, of election interference, even of inciting a coup, was detestable.

Nov 20, 2024 | businesslive.co.za | David Buckham

Delegates have gathered for COP29 this week — in a petrostate totalitarian regime, for the third year in a row. The question was asked what difference it really makes, so long as the imminent threat of climate change is being actively fought against. I and another of my friends visibly rose from our seats with desperate conviction. She said: “It makes a huge difference — it’s about how you define the problem.

Nov 14, 2024 | businesstech.co.za | David Buckham

By David BuckhamAmong the austere ranks of global banking regulators, in the libraries of central banks the world over, brushing quietly between the shelves of legal precedent, paging through arcane laws of prudential jurisprudence, squinting over the partial differential calculus that is littered across countless position papers – gazing up from one’s reading, tome in hand, so to speak – one could be forgiven, as a neutral observer, for being puzzled with it all. It makes no sense.