The recent surge in support for One Nation has prompted familiar diagnoses: a populist backlash against elite-driven multiculturalism, mass migration, and the technocratic consensus that treated cultural difference as an unqualified good. A more precise account, however, locates the roots of the project not solely in the cosmopolitan preferences of...

Hollywood actors are generally presented to the public as creatures of extraordinary privilege, inhabiting a world of wealth, fame, glamorous relationships and seemingly unlimited opportunity. We see the finished product, the international celebrity whose face appears on cinema screens across the world, but rarely appreciate the personal struggles ...

The allegations surrounding the so-called Cornell 7, seven male students accused in a civil lawsuit of drugging and sexually assaulting a female student at a Chi Phi fraternity house in October 2024, have drawn national attention not only for the details of the claims but for the institutional response that followed. Two students were later expelle...

The modern industrial world rests upon an assumption so fundamental that most people never give it a second thought: when we flick a switch, electricity will be there. Hospitals, supermarkets, banking systems, telecommunications, water supplies, transport networks and almost every aspect of contemporary economic life depend upon a continuous supply...

Western analysts have been predicting China's decline for years, and the latest contribution to this increasingly crowded field comes from Carl Minzner in Foreign Affairs, October 5, 2026, under the ominous title, "China's Long Twilight: Demographic Decline, Political Paralysis, and the Fate of Great Powers." Minzner argues that China's ageing popu...

Most people think of heart attacks and strokes as problems caused by unhealthy living. Smoking, poor diet, lack of exercise, high blood pressure and high cholesterol are familiar risk factors. But there is another danger that receives much less attention. Common viral infections, including influenza and COVID-19, may substantially increase the risk...

PARIS — French leaders came up empty-handed on Thursday after spending several days searching for someone in the rioting mob to surrender to. Eyewitnesses reported that residents had spent the last three days attempting to signal unconditional defeat to anyone who would respond inside the rampaging crowd. However, the unruly mob ignored the pleas a...

First, Trump did help resolve conflicts involving Armenia and Azerbaijan, Cambodia and Thailand, India and Pakistan, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt and Ethiopia, and Kosovo and Serbia. Some of these diplomatic achievements deserve recognition. Trump has demonstrated a willingness to intervene personally in international disp...

President Trump's recent declaration that anyone still using the term "artificial intelligence" rather than his preferred "super intelligence" is "THE ENEMY" of the White House is not merely eccentric branding. It is a small but revealing piece of nonsense that exceeds even the uncritical boosterism of Operation Warp Speed. Where Warp Speed at leas...

Even granting for the sake of argument, that same-sex attraction is real, that consenting adults should be free to form lasting relationships, and that legal recognition of those relationships can reduce certain practical hardships, big points for conservatives, a decade or more of experience across the West invites a narrower question: did the spe...

Alexandra Marshall's recent article in The Spectator Australia, "AI is a psychopath," raises some disturbing questions about the dangers of artificial intelligence. She draws attention to reports of AI systems providing potentially dangerous information, circumventing safety restrictions and exhibiting behaviour that appears manipulative or decepti...

There is a growing problem with artificial intelligence that its promoters would rather not discuss. AI is being sold as the technology that will transform the world, making businesses more productive, replacing expensive workers and delivering information faster than ever before. But what happens when the technology begins destroying the very thin...

Fraser Myers's argument is that Shabana Mahmood's Liverpool conference speech killed the last hope that Andy Burnham's government would close the settlement loophole, and that the resulting bill is why Reform has to beat Labour at the ballot box rather than wait for a conversion that will not come. Mahmood had been the exception. Appointed by Keir ...

 Professor Geoffrey Blainey's importance to Australian culture extends far beyond the shelves occupied by his many books. He belongs to that increasingly rare class of scholar who helped a nation understand itself and who, when intellectual fashions changed, was prepared to defend the legitimacy of Australians taking pride in their inheritance...

Professor Ian Brighthope's letter to Donald Trump is a demand for a reckoning, not a concession that Operation Warp Speed never happened. The speed is the part he grants. The judgement is the part he will not. Brighthope is an Australian physician who describes more than forty-five years in nutritional and environmental medicine. Writing on 7 Octob...

A second village is to hold a vote on whether to have a referendum to leave the UK in protest over plans to create a camp to house 1,250 asylum seekers in a former RAF base nearby. The Telegraph has more. Barnham parish council in Suffolk is to invite villagers to decide on Saturday October 24th whether they should follow the lead of Piddington in ...

Actor, Richard Gere's latest appeal is not a complicated argument. In a video for ActionAid, released in the first week of October 2026, he says fear is replacing compassion, that people on the move are being reduced to numbers and threats, and that detention, deportation and Italy's Albania arrangement are being sold as normal. Governments may man...

 There is something perverse about a political establishment that condemns the views of fellow Australians as an extremist, fringe minority when their views are actually extremist, fringe, and in the minority. I talk about the topic of abortion, which I define plainly and clearly as killing babies in the womb. That's the harsh and unvarnished ...

Working-class New Yorkers are being forced into receiving second-tier healthcare while the illegal aliens overrunning the socialist-led city are getting cared for at the prestigious Mount Sinai Hospital. Just last month, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced that he was leading a coalition with other Democrat-run cities in launching a lawsui...

There was a time when the opening of an American municipal council meeting with an invocation to Satan would have been almost unimaginable. Yet, according to an 8 October 2026 report by Steve Watson at Modernity, precisely this occurred at council meetings in Ottumwa, Iowa, and Battle Ground, Washington. In Ottumwa, former council member Matt Dalbe...