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Jani Allan

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Covers:  Art, theater, lifestyle, music, film, politics, society
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Jani Allan’s Biography

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A journalist, columnist, writer and broadcaster based in the New York metropolitan area. I am a frequent contributor to The Epoch Times and RT.

I previously wrote a regular column for South Africa's Sunday Times, the country's biggest-circulating weekly newspaper. In the United Kingdom my work has appeared in the Daily Mail, The Sunday Times, The London Evening Standard, the Daily Express and The Spectator.

Author of Jani Confidential - a memoir (Jacana, 2015).

Jani Allan’s Journalist Portfolio

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Why are Christians who just want to worship being called Covid conspiracy theorists waging a holy...

Why are Christians who just want to worship being called Covid conspiracy theorists waging a holy...

The case of Pastor James Coates has become one of the most controversial cases of freedom of religion versus …

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So it is now impossible to be white and African? As one myself, I find this growing racist war on...

So it is now impossible to be white and African? As one myself, I find this growing racist war on...

I was bemused to read that a radical black politician in South Africa caused a Twitter storm this week by tel…

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The Genius of Rembrandt's 'The Night Watch'

The Genius of Rembrandt's 'The Night Watch'

Some paintings almost everyone in the Western world knows: Leonardo's "Mona Lisa," Piero Della Francesca's "T…

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Giotto Di Bondone: The Master of Visual Storytelling

Giotto Di Bondone: The Master of Visual Storytelling

On the day I visited Padua, destroyer clouds were moving in from the west. The snow was knee-high. I had been…

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A Painting to Remember: 'Las Meninas'

A Painting to Remember: 'Las Meninas'

Three memories I have of the first time I visited Madrid: the relentless elegance of the women in the fashion…

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So clapping is no longer offensive in the Covid-19 era - are we now un-woke enough for a Woody Al...

So clapping is no longer offensive in the Covid-19 era - are we now un-woke enough for a Woody Al...

In woke culture, clapping has been banned on college campuses. It is considered ‘triggering.’ But I wonder if…

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Articles

I’ve lived and worked in the US for 20 years but can’t get citizenship… yet the doors are open for thousands of illegal migrants

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By Jani Allan, a writer and talk show host. She has written for the London Sunday Times, the Spectator, the Daily Mail and various other British publications. Her memoir Jani Confidential was published by Jacana Media. The idea of US citizenship is being thoroughly devalued as migrants arrive in record numbers at the southern border and people arrive from Afghanistan who have not been properly vetted. But I am left waiting to be approved. I am a South African-born US patriot.
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‘Our allies don’t trust us, our enemies are emboldened’ - vet who survived Kabul bombing on US disastrous failure in Afghanistan

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By Jani Allan, a writer and talk show host. She has written for the London Sunday Times, the Spectator, the Daily Mail and various other British publications. Her memoir Jani Confidential was published by Jacana Media. A US combat veteran says he’s heartbroken seeing what he considers to be treason committed on the American people by the Biden administration who allowed the Taliban to retake power after fighting them for 20 years.
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Cry, the bedevilled country: I weep for my homeland of South Africa, as I watch its disintegration from afar

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By Jani Allan, a writer and talk show host. She has written for the London Sunday Times, the Spectator, the Daily Mail and various other British publications. Her memoir Jani Confidential was published by Jacana Media. Widespread looting and burning has killed over 100, and wrecked factories, shops and homes, with Indian and whites increasingly the target. Is the country I love, where I spent 30 years of my life, spiralling into racial warfare?
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What was your first job as a journalist?

I briefly wrote classical music reviews.

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

Diana Christensen, played by Faye Dunaway in Network.

How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

Via email.