Ed Stoddard

Loaded for Bear: Pot smokers can once again raise a bong to the Budget Through the dense cloud of smoke that hangs over South African pot policy, recreational cannabis products — the goods that people consume to get stoned — have once again been excluded from the “unavoi...

Cannabis remains exempt from sin taxes in SA because pot policy remains shrouded in a haze of confusion: www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...

The Republican Party Has a Nazi Problem How did the GOP become a haven for slogans and ideas straight out of the Third Reich?

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Years - 4
Victories - 0
Casualties - 1,260,000🌻
Coups -1
Ruble -💩
War crimes -♾
NATO -🇫🇮&🇸🇪
Goodwill gestures - 🤷
Warships -Submarines
Submarines -Sub marine
Aircraft - 🚀💥
Refineries -🔥🦩
Raccoons -1🦝
Tankies - 😭
Tanks -🚜
Red lines - ➡️

I remain a master strategist

158 giant tortoises reintroduced to a Galapagos island.

Footage from Ecuador's environment ministry shows rangers releasing giant tortoises. More than 150 giant tortoises have been reintroduced to Floreana Island in Ecuador's famed Galapagos archipelago where they disappeared over a century ago

I suspect the fix was in ...

Agree with Donald. It is very unfair Ukraine keeps killing our soldiers when they could just stop resisting and let us win peacefully.

Loaded For Bear: Tim Cohen brings Leon Louw's overlooked legacy to life Cohen has done a service to history by shining the light on Louw’s record and legacy, and he has done so in his typically readable and witty fashion.…

My review of this fine book by a former colleague ... www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...

Every flood and fire closes off the opportunity to know our past

Every historian has had a brilliant idea for research that turns out not to be possible because some city hall or church has burned down or had a flood

Monuments come and go. But lost archives? That's our history erased

Mantashe’s cadastre roll-out still proceeding at a geological pace During his opening remarks at the Indaba, Minerals and Petroleum Minister Gwede Mantashe said there were ‘data issues’ that were delaying the roll-out. There are many plausible explanations for issues...

www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...

EXPOSED: The sordid tale of a dubious mine tailings operation that threatens critical wetlands in Gauteng This is the dark underbelly of South African mining – the dubious re-mining of tailings dams in an ecologically destructive way that feeds the laundromat of illicit gold. Daily Maverick’s queries on t...

Proud of the impact that reporting for this story had even before we published it this evening. Our queries sparked South Africa's Department of Water and Sanitation to take action: www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...

Having lived a few years in Tarrant County I must say this is a pleasant surprise! MAGA will probably cry foul ...

Carney uninvited to join Trump’s ‘Board Of Peace’ alongside Putin, Netanyahu, Lex Luthor, Megatron

Part 3: Ecological Aftershock: The longue duree and the animals in our history This is Part 3 of a three-part series. Read Part 1 here and Part 2 here.The first wave of the “Sixth Extinction” outlined in the previous two parts of this trilogy – the elimination of many species of

www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...

Part 3: Ecological Aftershock: The longue duree and the animals in our history This is Part 3 of a three-part series. Read Part 1 here and Part 2 here.The first wave of the “Sixth Extinction” outlined in the previous two parts of this trilogy – the elimination of many species of

The final part of my series on the role of human/wildlife conflict in our shared history with animals ... www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...

Loaded for Bear: After deluge cometh drought - El Niño will likely return in 2026 and SA needs to prepare With close to 40 people dead in the wake of catastrophic flooding in Limpopo and Mpumalanga, the subject of drought is not high on the radar screens of the South African public outside of a handful of

www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...

Part 2: Human-wildlife conflict, the ‘overkill’ hypothesis and megafaunal extinctions Investigating the 'overkill' hypothesis, this piece explores how human-wildlife conflict may have driven megafaunal extinctions, highlighting motivations beyond sustenance, including social status and...

Part II of my series on the role that human/wildlife conflict has played in history ... www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...

Part I: The Sixth Extinction and the Anthropocene’s Pleistocene origins Tens of thousands of years ago, the first wave of a worldwide tsunami now known as the “Sixth Extinction” swept across the planet as Homo sapiens, preceded in some cases by its kin, journeyed from the

Part 1 of my series on the Anthropocene's origins and the role of human/wildlife conflict over the wide arc of history: www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...

Katy Perry overheard telling Trudeau his WEF speech was also very good

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Slammed out — spare a thought for the lost generation of men’s tennis The men’s US Open in 2014 was considered seminal at the time because it was the first Grand Slam final in 10 years that did not feature someone whose surname was Federer, Nadal, Djokovic or Murray.The

My debut in tennis commentary ... www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...

Shovelling snow found to be number 1 cause of Canadians muttering 'fuck this fucking shit' over and over OTTAWA - A new study indicates that the biggest cause of Canadians repeatedly exclaiming 'fuck this fucking shit' is shovelling snow.

Shovelling snow found to be number 1 cause of Canadians muttering ‘fuck this fucking shit’ over and over

Russia bombing a playground hundreds of miles from the front line proves that Zelensky opposes peace.

Rise of the Machines: 2025 ‘genesis’ year for humanoid robot production with 16,000 installed The commercialisation of humanoid robot production is no longer confined to the realm of science fiction.According to Counterpoint Research, global humanoid robot installations reached 16,000 units in

www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...

Elephants or marula trees? A plant ecologist’s uneasy view from the Kruger Park The declining numbers of mature marula trees in Kruger Park, due to elephants and other herbivores, highlight a pressing ecological crisis, urging for urgent biodiversity conservation actions to preve...

www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...

S&P sees looming copper shortages posing ‘systemic risk’ to global economy Driven in part by new sources of demand – notably the surging energy needs of AI – S&P Global warns in a new report that looming copper shortages could undermine electrification, the renewable

Copper is the keystone commodity ... www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...

Horseshit. I did that while you were being indicted. 😤

Elon Musk achieves dream of automating child sex abuse AUSTIN, TX - World's richest man Elon Musk has achieved another lifelong milestone goal, this time training his artificial intelligence program Grok to make it easier than ever for users to create ima...

Elon Musk achieves dream of automating child sex abuse

Chatting like a magpie 😂

SA maize futures at four-year lows, good news for inflation, mixed outcomes for farmers South African white and yellow maize futures have fallen to four-year lows, a trend driven by the rampant rand, abundant global supplies and the rains of La Niña that will help to douse domestic fo

www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...

Land reform in South Africa: how new landholders could prosper from wildlife and not just farming South Africa needs to track whether beneficiaries of land reform policies are participating in the country’s thriving wildlife economy.

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