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to laugh at itself? jonathan shapiro, better known by the pen name zapiro, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. well, its a great pleasure to meet you, and i want to begin with something you said a few years ago. you said, "moral outrage is what drives a cartoonist." youve been at this cartooning for pretty much four decades. can you maintain outrage for four decades? you can. laughter when i was doing five or six cartoons a week, i would sometimes wonder what the hell im going to do today,...

welcome to this special year—ending edition of hardtalk with me, stephen sackur. its our chance to look back on some of the most telling and compelling encounters of 2023. how will this past year be remembered? well, a grim new phase in an intractable conflict will loom large. on october the 7th, hamas — the islamist group which controls gaza and is proscribed as a terrorist organisation in the uk and the us — launched a murderous attack on southern israel. 1,200 israelis were ki...

are scared to death that donald trump is going to get a second term and he is going to clean house in america. we need to think much more cleverly about how we produce food and how were going to sustain those systems. weve got to remember that the planet is on fire. im telling you, theres. going to be a revolution. we are using ai in a way to subjugate people, reduce their autonomy, reduce their agency, reduce their contribution to production. in the spirit of your title of hardtalk, y...

welcome to this special year—ending edition of hardtalk with me, stephen sackur. its our chance to look back on some of the most telling and compelling encounters of 2023. how will this past year be remembered? well, a grim new phase in an intractable conflict will loom large. on october the 7th, hamas — the islamist group which controls gaza and is proscribed as a terrorist organisation in the uk and the us — launched a murderous attack on southern israel. 1,200 israelis were ki...

overwhelming emotion in this country was hope. the repressive, racist apartheid regime had been toppled. the new power in the land was the african national congress, promising a better life for all south africans. well, three decades on, it is time to judge how the anc is doing. for too many south africans, this looks and feels like a story of failure. khayelitsha township, cape town. nestled under majestic table mountain. a sprawling reminder of south africas status as the most unequa...

of an energy crisis. it seems set to get worse. what do you think it is doing to this country? well, its aim is to collapse this country and undermine the democratic project, because those in power have relegated their responsibilities, to who, we dont know. they have not maintained the power stations. they have not built the new ones that are functional. and as a result, we are where we are. the interim ceo of eskom, the state—owned energy company, said yesterday that over the comin...

thank you very much. its a pleasure to talk to you, mr malema. we are speaking as south africa is in the middle of an energy crisis. it seems set to get worse. what do you think it is doing to this country? well, its aim is to collapse this country and undermine the democratic project, because those in power have relegated their responsibilities, to who, we dont know. they have not maintained the power stations. they have not built the new ones that are functional. and as a result, we ...

its just a matter of how fast," did you really believe that? of course i believed it then. i think its a fair assessment about where the anc find themselves — in the last local government elections, in 2021, they, for the first time in post—democratic south africa, lost their majority and fell below 50%. this obviously allied with the fact that our economys not growing, weve got 30 million people living in poverty, 12 million people unemployed, and loadshedding, rolling blackouts, ...

of the guard coming in south africa, the anc�*s decline is terminal. its just a matter of how fast," did you really believe that? of course i believed it then. i think its a fair assessment about where the anc find themselves — in the last local government elections, in 2021, they, for the first time in post—democratic south africa, lost their majority and fell below 50%. this obviously allied with the fact that our economys not growing, weve got 30 million people living in pover...

its goodnight. after multiple racist incidents involving uk police officers — newsnight learns that the initiative set up to tackle racism in policing in england and wales is now facing allegations of racism itself. some ethnic minority staff who used to work for the unit tell this programme they believed they were seen as "troublemakers" or "difficult". i was treated differently my white colleagues by a lack of support when the workload increased. i increasingly felt my voice and at...