The political editor of the Rapport newspaper, Jan de Lange, last Sunday penned a rather scurrilous attack on me and the Institute for Race Relations

On 25 March 2020, two days before the lockdown took effect, the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) issued a report entitled Friends In Need –

About ten days ago The Economist reported that a combination of Covid-19 and lockdowns could drive up to 420 million people into absolute poverty. Lockdowns,

I wrote a column many years ago about growing up with the distinct impression that there was something unpleasant about money. Going on holiday as

‘Everybody Must Get Stoned.’ So wrote the 2016 Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature, Mr Robert Zimmerman (professional name: Bob Dylan). It would be more accurate

The South African repo rate now sits at 3.75%, lower than it has been in the past 20 years at least. The interest on the

President Cyril Ramaphosa told the nation early in the lockdown: ‘We are resolved not to merely return our economy to where it was before the

‘Our country and the world we live in,’ President Cyril Ramaphosa assured South Africans a month ago, ‘will never be the same.’ Echoing this, much

The President’s most consistently repeated claim is that the lockdown “delayed the spread” of Covid-19 as intended. No evidence has been produced to test that

This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. May 23rd 1430 – Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians