Few propaganda machines have worked as hard to craft the image of a brilliant strategist for their political master as the modern Russian one. Even

A special cabinet meeting on Wednesday discussed slowing down the decommissioning of old coal-fired power stations. It’s one of the smarter ideas we’ve seen in

This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 15th April 1955 – McDonald’s corporation dates its founding to the opening

Constitutionalism did not fall out of an intellectual vacuum. The fingerprints of ‘classical’ liberalism are necessarily all over it, a fact not seriously disputed by

We present the podcasts of the weekly IRR Show on Chai FM. The show is broadcast live every Tuesday from 09h00 to 10h00 on Chai

Last week President Cyril Ramaphosa declared his fifth annual SA investment conference a great success. And last week the President also signed into law the Employment

In January, Covid-19 vaccine opponents got all worked up about a paper that appeared to show 278 000 vaccine-related deaths in the US. Of course, the

I look forward to the contributions by Ivo Vegter; logical, cogently argued, empirically illustrated and typically well sourced. Agree with him or not, and I

Joe Biden’s harsh labelling of national leaders makes geopolitical solutions even more elusive. The ANC’s vilifying successful societies undermines our economic prospects. Being quick to

I As the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution approaches, I’ll offer these revisionist thoughts about the country’s beginnings. First, it was essentially a civil