12 September 2022
Don’t let your guard down, the Islamist terror threat is as real as ever 21 years on from the 9/11 attacks that shocked the world
This article was originally published in Sky News Australia on or about 12 September 2022 and was written by the author in their capacity as a contributor for that publication. It has been republished on the IPA website with permission. The views expressed are those of the author alone. As the West is distracted by domestic issues and the rise of Russia and
5 September 2022
Mikhail Gorbachev Was A Socialist Through And Through – Not The Heroic Pro-capitalist He’s Being Painted Out To Be
This article was originally published on Sky News Australia on 5 September 2022 and was written by the author in their capacity as a contributor for that publication. It has been republished on the IPA website with permission. The views expressed are those of the author alone. Gorbachev has been widely remembered for his promotion of free enterprise and democracy, but not
7 May 2018
Wishing You A Miserable 200th Birthday, Karl Marx
Karl Marx’s ideas have led to the death of 100 million people, extreme poverty, immense suffering, and relentless oppression – and you can’t even say he’s a nice guy. Marx treated people cruelly, was two-faced, and used racial slurs. In a 1862 letter, Marx described an opponent as a ‘Jewish Nigger‘. He was also a slob. ‘Washing, grooming and changing his
3 November 2017
100 Years Of Misery
It’s the bad idea that just won’t die. Even a century after the Russian Revolution, many including local activists are celebrating the birth of a system that murdered tens of millions in the name of equality Next week marks 100 years since one of the most consequential events of the 20th century: the Russian Revolution. The takeover of the Russian
10 July 2008
I Was A Teenage Revolutionary
Scott Hargreaves reviews Young Stalin. Young Stalin is in the best Hollywood tradition of the prequel. Written after the highly rated and popular work on Stalin, The Court of the Red Tsar, Young Stalin delves into his early life as a son, student, poet, radical, husband, gangster, and conspiracist. Also in the Hollywood tradition, the author, Simon Montefiore, has the
