SA Institute of Race Relations 2 Crickets In A Thorn Tree

2 Crickets In A Thorn Tree

Nicholas Lorimer and Gabriel Crouse provide their unique take on everything and anything going on in South Africa and the world at large, with a focus on history, philosophy and current affairs.

Getting away with murder in South Africa, Russian oligarchs, American elections and geopolitical strategy all feature in this unconventional podcast.
Occasionally English South Africa News Commentary · Philosophy
130 Episodes
36 – 56

Modern war: war has changed or have we?

Nick and Gabriel discuss the return of conventional conflict with a modern twist, with a focus on the conflict in Ethiopia and with a dash of the war on the Ukrainian border.
20 Nov 2021 1 hr 01 min

3 Crickets: Discussing de Klerk with Rian Malan

A somewhat less messy, chaotic and distracted version of the now lost episode. Gabriel and Nick chat to Rian Malan about the life of F.W. de Klerk and what his life meant for SA.
15 Nov 2021 1 hr 38 min

The Liberal Slideback

Gabriel and Nick chat about the concepts of the Liberal Slideaway and the the Liberal Slideback
9 Nov 2021 1 hr 34 min

Princeton Nobel gongs

Gabriel and Nick chat about the Princeton university members who have recently won Nobel prizes they also discuss the global energy crisis and the DA poster mess.
12 Oct 2021 1 hr 27 min

Seeing things from a French perspective

In this wildly tangential episode, Nick and Gabriel discuss what makes the Geo-politics of France tick among other things. Note:We had to upload the episode without the intro music, the intro music will return next episode.
21 Sep 2021 1 hr 22 min

The curious case of Larry Elder and the Egg

Gabriel and Nick chat about the egging of Republican Larry Elder, and what the media response says about race esteem teams. They also discuss the death of the man accused of the first internationally recognized Apartheid political murder
12 Sep 2021 1 hr 13 min

The end of the war in Afghanistan

Nick and Gabriel talk about the end of Afghan war and ask the question, how did it come to this? "Where is the Horse and the Rider?"
1 Sep 2021 1 hr 38 min

The battle for the soul of South Africa's democracy

Nick and Gabriel return after Gabriel's recovery from Covid to bring you some news about how depressed Nick is about Afghanistan and more importantly for us, about the IRR's battle to protect our elections
24 Aug 2021 1 hr 22 min

Could Zuma have been a good president?

Please note: there was an issue with the upload this has now been fixed Nick and Gabriel are joined by Hermann and Marius for their longest ever podcast where they discuss the thesis that asks if Zuma could have been a great president had some things been different.
13 Jul 2021 1 hr 50 min

Waves of Covid and Wokeness

Nick and Gabriel discuss the latest on the Covid 3rd wave as well as Biden's bizarre torpedoing of a bi-partisan bill.
28 Jun 2021 1 hr 14 min

The nature of nature

Nick and Gabriel discuss the latest IRR campaign, the good press that nature gets, and how tradition is like a betrayal.
18 Jun 2021 1 hr 12 min

Revising history

Nick and Gabriel review the lives of Kaiser Wilhelm II and Jan Smuts.
7 Jun 2021 1 hr 11 min

Racism RIP

Gabriel and Nick discuss the IRR's exciting new campaign as well as the psychology of critical theory.
2 Jun 2021 1 hr 12 min
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