On 7 October 2026, the High Court of Australia delivered a decision with significant implications for the future of coal mining in New South Wales. In MACH Energy Australia Pty Ltd v Denman Aberdeen Muswellbrook Scone Healthy Environment Group Inc [2026] HCA 35, a three-to-two majority dismissed an appeal concerning the proposed expansion of the Mo...

 There is a plausible case that a disproportionate number of people who reach elite positions in Western institutions display traits associated with sadistic or psychopathic personality styles, particularly those who advocate or normalise violence as policy. This is not a clinical diagnosis of any individual, nor a claim that most leaders are ...

For decades, Australia's immigration debate has been characterised by a curious contradiction between political rhetoric and demographic reality. Governments have repeatedly spoken of carefully managed migration, economic necessity, skills shortages and sustainable population growth, while the country's population has continued expanding at a rate ...

 Pauline Hanson is the only major Australian political figure currently prepared to treat the United Nations as a problem rather than a permanent fixture. While the Coalition and Labor continue to implement, expand, and defend the web of UN-linked treaties and norms that constrain domestic decision-making, One Nation has repeatedly stated that...

       The Age of Incompetence I have spent many years observing western civilization, and I can tell you plainly: I have never seen such widespread stupidity at every level of society, from the political leaders who pretend to govern us down to ordinary people pushing grocery carts full of poison through the checkout line. We h...

 Traditional British surnames could be dying out as they make way for names such as Khan, Ahmed and Ali. Office for National Statistics (ONS) data has revealed a striking decline in traditionally British surnames among newborns across England and Wales. The figures, seen by the Daily Mail, span roughly three decades and paint a picture of prof...

       Australia's foreign policy should serve Australians first. If cheaper fuel can ease pressure on families, ideology and overseas approval should not stand in the way. Australia's foreign policy should be guided by a simple question, does this benefit Australia? If something benefits Australia we should do it. If something ...

Despite admitting mass immigration is damaging the country, the ruling classes fail to secure the border while clamping down on dissent. It's accelerating Britain towards crisis, say David Betz and Michael Rainsborough. Something is going badly wrong across Western societies, and the sense of political dislocation is no longer a fringe concern. Tru...

 There is a curious experience that almost everyone has encountered, yet which remains surprisingly difficult to explain. You are sitting in a crowded café, library or university building, absorbed in reading, eating or thinking. There is no obvious reason to look up, but suddenly you do, and your eyes meet those of someone you know. Perhaps t...

The high-school protests that began in mid-September over overcrowded classrooms, teacher shortages and underfunded buildings have produced the heaviest toll on the school system in decades, with thousands of arrests, widespread property damage and repeated clashes that have spread from the Paris suburbs to cities across the country. What started a...

The idea that humanity might deliberately dim the Sun to control global temperatures is one of the most extraordinary proposals to emerge from contemporary climate science. Having spent decades warning that human activities are destabilising the Earth's climate, some scientists and technology entrepreneurs are now contemplating an intervention of u...

The collection Writings of the Fideists gathers eight thinkers, Iamblichus, al-Ghazālī, Pascal, Hamann, Shestov and others, examines the limits of rational inquiry and the authority of revelation and inherited practice. Working from pagan, Islamic and Christian traditions, they share the conviction that reason finds its place only within a life gro...

Iran is treating renewed US strikes as probable, has shifted to explicit targeting of Gulf technology infrastructure, and is combining that threat with ongoing maritime pressure and site fortifications, raising the likelihood of a wider next phase once the midterm pause ends. Regional diplomats describe an atmosphere in Tehran in which further Amer...

The controversy over transgender participation in women's sport has produced one of the most difficult questions confronting contemporary athletics: what happens to competitive fairness when eligibility is determined by gender identity rather than the biological characteristics that originally justified separate male and female sporting categories?...

The Victorian Greens' proposal to force landlords to hold a licence, with three strikes and you're out of the rental business, is not a serious housing policy. It is an exercise in punitive regulation that will shrink the supply of rental homes, raise costs for the people it claims to help, and further confirm that the party long ago abandoned envi...

Modern universities produce an extraordinary volume of research, some of it valuable, technically sophisticated and capable of advancing human knowledge. Yet alongside genuine intellectual achievement there has developed an increasingly conspicuous academic industry devoted to investigating questions of questionable significance, often through elab...

Chris Morrison's Implausible is the book that finally puts the climate crisis narrative under a cold, unforgiving light and shows how little of it survives contact with evidence. As Environment Editor of the Daily Sceptic, Morrison has spent years documenting the gap between catastrophic claims and observed reality. This volume collects and expands...

For decades, Hollywood has presented the muscular action hero as the embodiment of masculine strength, physical discipline and almost superhuman endurance. Audiences have watched men develop extraordinary physiques, apparently through nothing more mysterious than hard training, determination and carefully controlled diets. The reality, however, has...

The sexual revolution of the 1960s is commonly presented as one of the great emancipatory achievements of modern Western society. According to the conventional progressive narrative, the weakening of traditional Christian sexual morality liberated individuals from repression, challenged patriarchal institutions and allowed women, in particular, to ...

The American poet Robert Frost, who died in 1963, is credited with one of the most memorable observations about political liberalism: "A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel." The remark is witty, but it also identifies a curious tendency within liberal political culture: the willingness to question one's own society, ...