Gareth Cliff

Media, TV, Radio, Podcasting, Writing. Host of #TheGarethCliffShow.

[Skye @SkyeZedA]

How did we end up in a position where some of the least competent people are running the country, taking most of our hard-earned income and living lavishly at our expense while we struggle to get by?

We accept the lies. We accept the corruption and theft. We accept attempts to interfere in our lives and livelihoods. We accept them making it harder to build businesses, create jobs, and get ahead. We complain, adapt and just keep paying.

At what point do we stop accepting it?

How do we end this?

[Acclaimed Journalist @Jonathan_Witt]

As I’ve repeatedly told you, the laws the Government invents only apply to the middle class and exist solely to bleed them dry, cause them hardship, and make it possible to imprison them whenever someone in power sees fit.

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

Let Germany 🇩🇪 be a warning: Elections and stupid woke policies have consequences.

[Bjorn Lomborg @BjornLomborg]

Fortunately, the prediction from both economists and the UN is that the average person over the century will get about 5x richer — and could be 10x (bad policies could also lead us much astray)

Read more in my peer-reviewed article:
https://t.co/CC0h7JKIKv

[J Stewart @triffic_stuff_]

🤯 Listen to this extraordinary exchange between Camilla Tominey and Labour’s Health Secretary James Murray. It is genuinely jaw-dropping.

Camilla: “You’re quite pro-trans, aren’t you? Do you think a woman can have a penis? Because you did previously?”

Murray: “No, I don’t.”

Camilla: “So you’ve changed your mind?”

Murray: “Yes.”

Camilla: “Why?”

Murray stumbles. He says he’s been thinking about the issue over recent years and would not now say trans women are women.

Camilla hits back: “You must have known that before. You are very well educated. How on earth can you have previously thought that a woman can have a penis?”

He had no real answer. Because there isn’t one.

This is not some backbench MP. This is the Secretary of State for Health, the man responsible for the entire NHS, puberty blocker policy, women’s health services, and child safeguarding.

He spent years either believing or pretending to believe that biological sex is fluid and that women can have penises. Only now, when the Cass Review, court rulings, and public opinion have made that position politically toxic, has he magically “changed his mind”.

Think about the damage done while he held that view. The eroded women’s rights. The confused children fast-tracked toward hormones and surgery. The female prisoners and athletes forced to share spaces with biological males. All enabled or ignored by senior Labour figures like him.

This level of ideological delusion at the very top of government is not just embarrassing, it is dangerous. Basic biology should never have been up for debate, let alone something a Health Secretary had to “evolve” on.

[Gareth Cliff @GarethCliff]

Ha ha ha - what a performative waste of money and time.

[Wayne Duvenage @wayneduv]

Can someone in @PresidencyZA tell the people of South Africa, what the current status and progress of the #NationalDialogue is?

[Gareth Cliff @GarethCliff]

Those who use language to deceive, rather than to understand will find it difficult to employ Large Language Models in any effective way, eventually shutting them out of a future likely to be dominated by AI. You get what you deserve, commies.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Depuis 50 ans, la gauche a réussi le plus grand hold-up intellectuel de l'histoire moderne.

Pas avec des armes. Pas avec des lois. Avec des mots.

Et honnêtement ? Chapeau. C'est génial. C'est diabolique. C'est du grand art.

Ils ont compris une chose qu'Orwell avait écrite noir sur blanc dans 1984 : celui qui contrôle le langage contrôle la pensée. Change les mots, et tu changes ce que les gens sont capables de penser. Rétrécis le vocabulaire, et tu rétrécis le champ du possible.

Dans 1984, ce n'est pas un détail. C'est le cœur du réacteur. Le ministère de la Vérité fabrique les mensonges. Le ministère de l'Amour torture. Le ministère de la Paix fait la guerre. « La guerre c'est la paix, la liberté c'est l'esclavage. » La novlangue ne décrit pas le monde — elle le remplace.

Et c'est exactement ce qui s'est passé. Regardez la mécanique :

Le « progressisme » ? C'est l'anti-progrès. Ceux qui bloquent le nucléaire, qui freinent la tech, qui diabolisent la croissance, qui rêvent de décroissance et veulent punir ceux qui construisent. Le mot dit « avant ». Le projet dit « arrière ».

L'« antiracisme » ? Il a réinjecté la race partout. Il assigne les gens à leur couleur, les enferme dans des cases, dresse les groupes les uns contre les autres. Un mouvement censé effacer la race l'a remise au centre de tout. Il a fabriqué le racisme qu'il prétend combattre.

Les croisades « contre l'homophobie » ? Elles crispent, elles clivent, elles imposent — et fabriquent en retour une partie du rejet qu'elles disaient vouloir éteindre.

La « protection » façon Union européenne ? C'est du flicage. On te surveille « pour ton bien », on te censure « pour te protéger », on te contrôle « pour ta sécurité ». Chaque mot est une inversion. Le vocabulaire de la bienveillance au service d'un projet orwellien.

Et le plus beau dans l'arnaque, c'est le verrou. Le piège parfait.

Aujourd'hui, des millions de gens lucides, qui voient parfaitement le problème… se taisent. Pourquoi ? Parce qu'ils refusent d'être traités de « racistes ». Sauf qu'être « antiraciste » au sens où le mot a été retourné, c'est précisément devenir raciste. Ils ont piégé les gens avec leur propre morale. Échec et mat.

Voilà le chef-d'œuvre : ils n'ont pas eu besoin de vous convaincre. Ils ont juste rendu le désaccord impensable, en confisquant les mots pour le formuler.

Alors oui — respect. Bonne guerre. Ils ont joué une manche, et ils l'ont gagnée.

Mais il y a un truc que la novlangue n'avait pas prévu.

Tout le monde a compris.

Le voile est tombé. Les mots reprennent leur poids. Et une inversion sémantique ne survit pas à l'instant précis où les gens la voient à l'œil nu. Ça, c'est terminé.

On reprend les mots. On reprend le réel. On reprend la partie.

[Chris Hart @chrishartZA]

There are already 4 wealth taxes in SA - 2 levied specifically on property ownership. The economy needs capital to grow. Taxes on wealth are taxes on the very capital needed to structurally grow the economy. Structural growth (the kind of growth that reduces unemployment) is investment-driven growth. Consumption-led growth is cyclical and debt-driven and does not lead to any sustainable job creation. The current ANC policy is state-led consumption-led growth that has just created an unemployment hell and a de-industrialised economy reeling under over-taxation and over-regulation and a deeper and deeper hole.

[Gareth Cliff @GarethCliff]

But I was assured Donald Trump was ruining everything

[Jaco Kleynhans @JacoKleynhans]

The price of Brent crude oil per barrel is likely to fall below 70 dollars per barrel today. A month ago it was almost 100 dollars. Before the end of July, the price could fall to between 60 and 65 dollars. This means that fuel prices worldwide will fall sharply and that the global economy could experience a very good second half of 2026 with lower inflation and higher growth.

[Gareth Cliff @GarethCliff]

Correct

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

This is because the anti-capitalist left is not actually against people being crazy rich. They're against certain types of people being crazy rich.

Artists and athletes make sense to them because they've played music and sports and because their success can be explained by "luck" and "talent". Messi's wealth is not offensive to them because they understand Messi is much better at football than they are.

But when it comes to business, the anti-capitalist leftist has no framework for understanding why Jeff Bezos might be super rich since 99% of them have never ever created a product, business or service that was of value to other people. They've never taken entrepreneurial risk. They've never employed people and felt the burden of responsibility that comes with that. They've never pick up a business and given it a play in the way they've picked up a ball or a guitar.

They *literally* don't understand wealth creation. They think there is a fixed amount of money and the only thing a business does is split it unfairly.

It's why they rage at Elon and other successful business leaders. Because they genuinely don't understand why they're wealthy.

Also, and this is just as important, athletes and artists are disproportionately young, attractive, "diverse", left wing etc. Business leaders are "evil" middle aged white men whose success offends the average anti-capitalist leftist because they don't understand a) what it is they do and b) that Elon Musk has the same talent advantage on them as Messi does, it's just harder to measure.

[Gareth Cliff @GarethCliff]

No shit, Sherlock

[Daily Investor @DailyInvestorSA]

South Africa's BEE legislation has been abused by a handful of well-connected political elites at the expense of the majority of citizens.
https://t.co/SzeYUKkId0

[Retro Recall (☥𝐃𝐁) @RetroMoviesDB]

Show me a bigger downgrade.

I'll wait:

[Gareth Cliff @GarethCliff]

Great visual representation of gravity

[Evreni Merak Ediyoruz @evrenseImerak]

Güneşin yerçekimi gezegenleri işte böyle bir arada tutuyor.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

We tax cigarettes to reduce smoking.
We tax alcohol to reduce drinking.
We tax fuel to reduce driving.

What do you think happens when you tax employing people and running a business?

[Adriaan Lombard 🇿🇦 🇺🇸 @LLB_hard82389]

It is good to see the public realising the tax burden (especially once you take into consideration how much indirect taxes are slipped in the back door). You should ask SARS for a refund for all the private costs you pay that the state should have (healthcare, safety, schooling etc)

[Bjorn Lomborg @BjornLomborg]

We don’t have unlimited resources.

Where can the world spend a dollar and do the most good for the future?

This list by 50+ teams of world-class economists shows the best—and not so good—investments (longer lines better).

https://t.co/CC0h7JKIKv

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

There are no words that can describe the extent to which I loathe this cancerous parasite, @BernieSanders. He has achieved nothing in his entire career whereby he has relied on the taxpayers to fund his utopian delusional revolution.

[Gareth Cliff @GarethCliff]

Yup

[leolimza @leolimza]

R600 MILLION FOR A MARCH ON THE 30TH.
R441 MILLION NATIONAL DIALOGUE.
R500 MILLION SPAZA SHOP FUND THAT HAS SHOWN 0 R3SULTS. WE HAVE UNDERSTAFFED HOSPITALS,OVER WORKED POLICEMAN AND WOMAN.HIGH YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT RATE.
THIS THE TAX PEYERS MONEY.
@MYANC is no longer a solution.

[Bloody Aardvark @AardvarkBloody]

South Africans of all races are starting to realise that at least half of their blood, sweat and tears go towards Bentleys and supercars for the president's nephew.

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

Productivity growth, not taxation, has been the most proven way to fix inequality and poverty.