Professor David Flint has put his finger on one of the more cynical features of Australian politics after the Bondi Beach massacre. Faced with an antisemitic terrorist atrocity, the Albanese government rapidly discovered that one of the people requiring political attention was the Australian licensed gun owner. It was an extraordinary displacement ...
The Daily Mail story is an American nightmare with Australian bones. Jon Wellinghoff, who once ran the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, walked the country through a simple piece of arithmetic after gunmen shot up a San Jose substation. Model the three big American grids: East, West, Texas, and take out nine of the right substations, three clus...
A right to self-defence that exists only on a statute book is a consolation prize for the people who can already run, punch, and wait. The aged cannot run. A lot of women cannot win a fight against a grown man who has decided the fight is happening. The disabled do not get a special exemption from gravity. "Call the police" is not a strategy when t...
There is an old Australian expression for something so obvious that even Blind Freddy could see it. The expression seems particularly appropriate to the global oil market in 2026, except that Blind Freddy apparently never secured a position in an energy ministry, Treasury department or Western cabinet. The warning lights are flashing everywhere. Th...
Meta will pay the US states up to about $17 billion and wrap Facebook and Instagram in a new set of child-safety clothes. Attorneys general called it transformative. The company denied wrongdoing and wrote a cheque large enough to end a trial before Mark Zuckerberg had to sit in the box. Both things can be true. The money is real. Whether the safet...
Bill Gates does not do mysticism. When he says the industry is lying to the public about artificial intelligence, it is not a poet talking. It is a man who spent his life turning software into a civilisation, watching the next stack outrun the last one, and admitting, late, and in public, that the people selling it know more than they will say. In ...
For decades intelligent design has been treated less as an argument to be answered than as an embarrassment to be removed from polite intellectual company. Mention design in biology and the ritual responses arrive almost automatically: Darwin, evolution, creationism, God of the gaps, case closed. The confidence of the dismissal is remarkable becaus...
Humanity has been waiting for the end of the world for a remarkably long time. The date changes. The mechanism changes. The prophet changes. The world stubbornly remains. Comets have been coming to get us. Planets have been about to collide with us. Nuclear war has repeatedly been days away. Computers were going to stop civilisation at midnight on ...
Something rather extraordinary has happened in Australian politics. Immigration reduction, until recently treated across much of the political establishment as somewhere between economically illiterate and morally suspect, has suddenly become respectable. What caused this intellectual revelation was not a newly discovered economic paper, Treasury a...
Hopelessness in modern Britain is not a mood. It is an audit. People are not depressed because they read too much news. They are depressed because the old bargain is dead and everyone can still recite the script. Work. Save. Obey. Pay in. The state will keep the streets usable, the hospital reachable, the pension yours, and the future open to your ...
Donald Trump told Glenn Beck he would "absolutely prohibit the Sharia law thing." One country. One system. Where it appears, "take it out." He pointed at London and Paris and called what he saw there "almost like a second way of life." That sentence is not exotic. The American settlement is already supposed to be this: no religious code becomes the...
The original question was never really about bears. "Would you rather be alone in a forest with a man or a bear?" was a rhetorical device dressed up as a thought experiment. Its purpose was not to calculate comparative risk but to announce a conclusion: men are so dangerous that an unpredictable wild predator is preferable to an unknown male human ...
The headline is doing what headlines are for. Labor, we are told, is about to unveil an immigration "crackdown," aimed at international students, visitor visas, and the onshore applications that turn a temporary stay into a long argument with the department. The Australian puts the motive in the open: the package is being finished amid pressure fro...
Yes. Not always, not overnight, and not in the cartoon sense that a single election turns a functioning country into a crater. But history is not subtle on the main point. Leaders can impoverish a rich nation, hollow out its institutions, teach its people to live by slogans instead of competence, and leave a wreck that later generations spend...
There is something almost anachronistic about James Lawley's project. Through his Gent Z videos and his Gentlemen's Collective, Lawley is attempting to resurrect an idea that much of modern culture has either forgotten or reduced to parody: the gentleman. Not simply the man who owns an expensive suit, knows which fork to use at dinner and can disti...
In a large prospective study of middle-aged and older Chinese adults living in Singapore, regular consumption of milk and other dairy foods emerged as modestly but consistently linked to lower risks of two major chronic conditions: type 2 diabetes and hypertension. The findings come from the Singapore Chinese Health Study, a long-running cohort tha...
If you had told a liberal activist in 1968 that in the year 2026 there would be crowds of women in pink standing outside a courthouse in support of a mother who confessed to killing her three children, that activist would have assumed you were describing some grotesque Right-wing satire, the kind of thing that gets printed in a fringe pamphlet to d...
Who invented DIOS? I am pleased to inform you that it was Dan Quayle: "From the perspective of many Japanese, the ethnic diversity of our culture is a weakness compared to their homogeneous society. I begged to differ with my host. I explained that our diversity is our strength and I explained that the immigrants who come to our shores have m...
They were told that anger is a virtue, and a large slice of the American professional class believed it. Steve McCann's question in American Thinker (link below), is not subtle, and it does not need to be. Why are so many liberal white women so publicly furious when, by the metrics the last half-century used to measure female progress, they h...
Janet Levy's essay in American Thinker names the new creed anti-speciesism: the conviction that preferring humans to other animals is a prejudice of the same family as racism or sexism, and that policy should be rewritten until the preference disappears. Richard Ryder coined the insult. Peter Singer made it fashionable. The move is simple and, once...
