

Ian Macleod
Ian Macleod studied business science at the University of Cape Town and journalism at Rhodes University. He completed his MBA at the University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS). Macleod consults on a variety of economic topics, writes about sport and endeavours to speak truth on the culture wars. He has run seven Comrades Marathons.
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Why I kicked a hornets’ nest of wokery
- By Ian Macleod
- . Aug 14, 2022
‘Ian, you’ve kicked one hell of a hornets’ nest,’ I’ve been told by an insider. While my petition was strictly a list of probing questions,

Requiem to a School: Goodbye, Saints
- By Ian Macleod
- . May 7, 2022
“There was madness in any direction, at any hour. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing

Teacher, leave us alone: Open letter from Ian Macleod to GIBS, challenging coerced medication
- By Ian Macleod
- . Feb 26, 2022
It is a narrative arc almost as old as storytelling itself. Sensei teaches a student everything he knows. Years later, Sensei joins the forces of

From Chicago’s lips to South Africa’s ears
- By Ian Macleod
- . Jan 29, 2022
I’ve long admired big portions of the Chicago school of economic thought, primarily its reverence for the power of free markets. Bravo. But I recently

Grave assertions demand grave justifications: An open letter to Ivo Vegter
- By Ian Macleod
- . Dec 10, 2021
Hello Ivo You allege in your recent piece in The Daily Friend that PANDA and its chairman Nick Hudson cannot be taken seriously. You attempt

Hunt for racism and you’ll find it… or something
- By Ian Macleod
- . Sep 2, 2021
You’ll find racism if you want to. And not just the genuine racism. You’ll find ghost racism. You’ll turn it up in silly rules, odd

Mr Ramaphosa, let’s tear down this lockdown
- By Ian Macleod
- . Aug 14, 2021
Mr. President, Covid lockdowns have caused misery and death. What’s done is done. But even remaining measures deny human rights and cause terrible things. Now

What I learned disdaining Jordan Peterson
- By Ian Macleod
- . Jul 31, 2021
“I think he’s an idiot,” I snapped at my running buddy in the early kilometres of a trail run not far from Pretoria. He had

I, Fool – but not a Fauci
- By Ian Macleod
- . May 4, 2021
You’re a fool. So am I. We’re serious nincompoops. And it’s only getting worse as the world gains complexity. But we don’t have to be