Nicholas Lorimer

Podcast Host at 2 Crickets In A Thorn Tree

Podcast Host, Daily Friend Show at Freelance

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The ANC’s and DA’s fates are bound together

2 weeks ago | dailyfriend.co.za | Nicholas Lorimer

Nicholas Lorimer, a politician-turned-think tank thinker, is the IRR's Geopolitics Researcher and is host of the Daily Friend Show. His interests include geopolitics, and history (particularly medieval and ancient history). He is an unashamed Americaphile, whether it be food, culture or film. His other pursuits include video games and armchair critique of action films from the 1980s.
Justin and Justinian

3 weeks ago | dailyfriend.co.za | Nicholas Lorimer

This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 1st April 527 Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throneMosaic of Justinian I, in Ravenna [Petar Milošević – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=40035957]Justinian I is one of those great characters of history whose biography is written again and again and whose choices help to define an era.
America and Europe: You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone

1 month ago | dailyfriend.co.za | Nicholas Lorimer

The Transatlantic Alliance – which has existed in some form since 1940 – seems shakier than ever. Europe is angry at what it sees as American attempts to cut it out of peace talks over Ukraine, and America’s lack of commitment to the defence of Europe. The Europeans also fear that the Trump administration may be aligning too closely with Russia. The US is upset at what it sees as European free-riding on US defence spending and a supposed lack of gratitude.
SONA shows ANC will need to be dragged into reality kicking and screaming

2 months ago | dailyfriend.co.za | Nicholas Lorimer

I guess I should have known better. Watching the State of the Nation Address 2025 (SONA) live in anticipation of a briefing I would be giving the next day on it, I hoped it would be at least slightly different from the SONAs which Ramaphosa has given since he became President.
Susenyos’s deadly surprise

Jan 23, 2025 | dailyfriend.co.za | Nicholas Lorimer

This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 17th January 1608 – Emperor Susenyos I of Ethiopia surprises an Oromo army at Ebenat; his army reportedly kills 12,000 Oromo at the cost of 400 of his menMedieval map of Ethiopia, including the ancient lost city of Barara, which is located in modern-day Addis Ababa [Samuel C. Walker, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=109427725]Ethiopia is a very long-lived state.
Learning the hard way: Why Syria should try Liberalism - Daily Friend

Jan 15, 2025 | dailyfriend.co.za | Nicholas Lorimer

Syria is a country with an unhappy history. Since its establishment in 1920, it has been badly ruled by autocrats and foreign powers. Even before the modern version of Syria existed, it was dominated for thousands of years by foreign empires, Romans, Persians, Mamluks, Greeks. Between 1924 and 1946 the country was under a French mandate, which made it effectively a colony of France.
Learning the hard way: Why Syria should try Liberalism - Daily Friend

Jan 14, 2025 | dailyfriend.co.za | Nicholas Lorimer

Syria is a country with an unhappy history. Since its establishment in 1920, it has been badly ruled by autocrats and foreign powers. Even before the modern version of Syria existed, it was dominated for thousands of years by foreign empires, Romans, Persians, Mamluks, Greeks. Between 1924 and 1946 the country was under a French mandate, which made it effectively a colony of France.
Fall of Jaffna - Daily Friend

Dec 5, 2024 | dailyfriend.co.za | Nicholas Lorimer

This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 5th December 1995 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lanka’s government announces the conquest of the Tamil stronghold of Jaffna[https://www.flickr.com/photos/nazly/32246797116]The island nation of Sri Lanka has a dark history of civil war and ethnic strife in the second halfd of the 20th century.
Baltic undersea cable sabotage suspected - Daily Friend

Nov 29, 2024 | dailyfriend.co.za | Nicholas Lorimer

This Week in the World sheds light on events and personalities around the globe that may not have made the headlinesUkraine-Russia warA Chinese ship called the Yi Peng 3 is suspected by Danish and Swedish authorities of being involved in the deliberate sabotaging of undersea internet cables in the Baltic Sea. The Yi Peng 3 left the Russian port of Ust-Luga on 15 November.
The rise of Kurdish nationalism

Nov 28, 2024 | dailyfriend.co.za | Nicholas Lorimer

This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 27th November 1978 – The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) is founded in the Turkish village of FisA 2016 protest in Germany for the release of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan, who was captured and imprisoned in Turkey in 1999The Kurdish people have sometimes been called the world’s largest ethnic group without a nation state.