For more than 30 years, section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 has survived a political argument that never really went away. Coalition governments talked about reforming it, civil libertarians attacked it, racial-discrimination advocates defended it, and successive parliaments ultimately left it standing. Now Pauline Hanson may achieve ...

Commercial aviation has achieved something remarkable. Millions of people routinely climb into machines weighing hundreds of tonnes, accelerate to around 250 kilometres per hour along a strip of concrete and disappear into the sky with scarcely a thought about whether they will arrive. The reason we can treat this extraordinary activity as ordinary...

In January 2021, a little more than a month after the first COVID-19 vaccines received emergency use authorisation, the directors of America's leading public-health agencies exchanged messages about pregnant women. The texts, recovered years later from Anthony Fauci's government-issued phone and released by Senators Ron Johnson and Rand Paul, do no...

The State Department is preparing what officials describe as the largest mass visa revocation in American history: the cancellation of up to 200,000 B-1 and B-2 visas issued between 2016 and 2026 whose holders entered as short-term visitors and then filed for asylum. The move is coordinated with the Department of Homeland Security. It does not, by ...

A recent survey of 1,404 people across 18 Western countries reports that those who call themselves left-handed place themselves, on average, about half a point further left on a ten-point political scale than right-handers. The difference is statistically detectable and, in the sample, larger than the gap between men and women. Headlines followed: ...

One of the great mistakes of modern secularism was the assumption that if people ceased believing in God they would simply become rational individuals, calmly constructing their lives according to evidence and enlightened self-interest. Human beings do not seem to work that way. We are meaning-seeking creatures, and when one source of transcendent ...

For half a century the dominant demographic fear was excess. Paul Ehrlich's 1968 The Population Bomb declared the battle to feed humanity already lost and forecast mass starvation in the 1970s. World population then stood at roughly 3.5 billion; the global total fertility rate hovered near five children per woman. Compulsion, he argued, might be re...

On February 14, 2026, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a laudatory speech about Europe and its legacy at the Munich Security Conference. He noted, however, that Europe is weakening. "We don't want our allies to be weak," he said. His remarks initially were well received by the European political leaders and journalists in the room; not f...

Stockpiling tinned food is a sensible idea. A household that can feed itself for a week without shops, power or deliveries is better placed for a flood, a cyber attack on logistics, a prolonged blackout or any of the other disruptions now listed in the UK National Risk Register. The government is accelerating civil-defence planning and urging the p...

Oseltamivir, sold for years as Tamiflu and now widely available as a generic, was approved because it appeared to shorten influenza symptoms by about a day in otherwise healthy outpatients. That modest benefit, established in younger and less severely ill people, became the basis for enormous stockpiles and routine prescribing to the elderly and th...

- One hotel room. Every man on trial. The Swans fiasco had it all. Here was feminism's prized foe — brash young footballers hoovering up millions for kicking a ball — caught in the mother of all own goals. An early morning hotel frolic, paid strippers, industrial quantities of drugs, and a sexual assault allegation. Christmas had come early for the...

On 20 August 2026 the Australian Senate reached the decisive vote on the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2025. At 2:46 pm the President put the question that "the remaining stages of the bill be agreed to, and the bill be now passed." The result was 26 votes to 15. The bill passed the Senate. This was no routine...

One Nation rose on a clear promise to voters who had watched net overseas migration climb to levels that strained housing, wages in certain sectors, and a sense of cultural continuity. The party's brand, forged in the late 1990s around zero net migration and cultural cohesion, offered itself as the vehicle that would finally break the bipartisan co...

 Something has gone missing from the lives of a great many men, and the missing piece is not simply company. It is purpose joined to company. The numbers and the anecdotes both keep pointing in the same direction: fewer close friends than a generation ago, more time alone, higher rates of isolation that track with worse health and, in the extr...

There are few propositions in nutritional science more appealing than the idea that something as ordinary as a bowl of blueberries might help preserve the ageing brain. No expensive drug, elaborate supplement regime or exotic superfood is required: just a fruit available in virtually every supermarket, fresh or frozen. The interesting thing is that...

Central banking concentrates the power to create and allocate money in the hands of a narrow institutional elite, presenting this monopoly as technical management while systematically transferring wealth, distorting production, and undermining the foundations of a free civilization. Money that once required real effort and limited both private and ...

Pastor Lorenzo Sewell stood before the US Dearborn City Council and said what many outside the room already believed: the city no longer operates under a single American standard. "America, we have lost this city." He was not claiming that formal Sharia statutes had been written into the municipal code. He was pointing to something more insidious a...

The word "conspiracy" has acquired two strangely contradictory meanings in modern political life. In popular debate, calling something a conspiracy is often a way of dismissing it: the speaker is imagined wearing a tinfoil hat and connecting unrelated dots on a basement wall. In criminal law, however, conspiracy is deadly serious. Once conduct can ...

There is something almost bizarre about the fact that Western civilisation now requires a defence. A civilisation that produced constitutional government, modern science, the university, the abolitionist movement, extraordinary literature and music, unprecedented material prosperity and the most extensive conception of individual liberty yet develo...

Immigration has always been a transaction between peoples who are not identical. Thomas Sowell's long examination of migrations shows that success or failure rarely turns on the simple fact of movement. It turns on what the movers bring with them,habits of work, attitudes toward time and authority, skills that transfer, and values that either mesh ...