For thousands of years, mathematics has been regarded as one of humanity's greatest intellectual achievements. Unlike politics, economics or even much of experimental science, mathematics promises something approaching absolute certainty. A mathematical theorem, once properly proved, does not depend upon public opinion, government authority or the ...

Something curious is happening across the developed world. Governments that have spent decades reassuring their populations that modern technological civilisation can handle almost anything are increasingly telling ordinary people to prepare for emergencies. Japan is the latest country to attract attention, with its government preparing to issue a ...

Is it any wonder men are opting out? That's the question I asked here on Substack last May, describing the young women so many men find on offer in today's marriage market: "miserable, anxious, politically radicalised, contemptuous of men, often sexually rejecting and trained to see menace in ordinary male behaviour." I concluded many men were deci...

The debate about artificial superintelligence is dominated by a familiar assumption: eventually humanity will create a machine intelligence vastly superior to itself, and the decisive question will be whether that intelligence becomes humanity's servant, partner or master. The standard scenarios range from technological utopia to the familiar scien...

Conservative voices have long raised concerns over the demographic shift arising from high sustained migration from the Middle East and Africa, and new data confirms these fears. According to data published by La Razón, cited by La Gaceta, the number of Muslims in Europe has jumped from roughly 15 million around the year 2000 to approximately 32.5 ...

 Europe is not collapsing in a single dramatic rupture. It is steadily losing the capacity to generate new wealth while still living off the capital, institutions, and cultural inheritance built by earlier generations. Political leaders across much of the continent have treated expanding public spending, multiplying rules, and assertions of mo...

We are not facing "disturbances," but an act of war that distinguishes between "us" and "them." Opinion. France is in chaos and the government imposed a curfew in certain areas, after Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez resigned: "In some cities we have lost control". Pascal Bruckner speaks of a "silent coup d'état" in Le Figaro: "What is striking is t...

 There was a time when a trip to the supermarket involved a relatively simple transaction. One purchased groceries, the checkout operator placed them in plastic bags, and the customer carried them home. The bags were lightweight, strong, reasonably waterproof and capable of being reused for numerous household purposes. They could serve as rubb...

The prosecution of Australia's most decorated living soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith VC, has become one of the most contentious legal and military controversies in Australian history. The former Special Air Service Regiment corporal, once celebrated for extraordinary courage in Afghanistan, now faces five charges of war-crime murder arising from alleged...

Australia and the European Union concluded negotiations on a free-trade agreement in March 2026 after nearly eight years of talks. The government presents it as a straightforward win: almost all tariffs fall, Australian goods gain near-duty-free access to a market of 450 million people, critical minerals and hydrogen face fewer barriers, and a few ...

Children as young as 6 continued receiving AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine in a 2021 U.K. clinical trial, even though U.K. government advisers were aware of a potentially deadly blood clot risk, a newly released document reveals. Dr. Angus Dalgleish, professor of oncology at City St George's, University of London, said the blood clot risk should hav...

There is a seductive quality to a single, well-publicized genetic paper. It arrives with the authority of a Nature headline, gets compressed into a Reuters paragraph, and suddenly a century of archaeology and linguistics is supposed to fold itself quietly into a footnote. The 2021 Nature study of the Tarim Basin mummies has been wielded precisely t...

There is something profoundly disturbing about the economics of modern warfare. While civilians are killed, soldiers risk their lives, families struggle with rising prices and entire regions suffer destruction, other participants in the economic system may discover that war is exceptionally profitable. The contrast has been brought into sharp focus...

In recent years, tech moguls like Elon Musk have increasingly prophesied a post-labour future brought on by artificial intelligence and advanced robotics. In this techno-optimist vision, human labour becomes entirely obsolete. Robots mine the earth, manufacture goods, grow food, and code software. Meanwhile, the state steps in to distribute a Unive...

On October 22, 2026, French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu sent a letter to the CEOs of the country's four main mobile operators. He asked them to prepare to block Snapchat, TikTok, and Instagram by DNS filtering for several hours. X was added to the list afterward. The trigger was recent urban violence and protests; the government argued that th...

Australia's major banks are among the most powerful and profitable institutions in the country. They occupy a privileged position in the national economy, handling the savings, mortgages, business loans and financial transactions of millions of Australians. Yet their enormous economic influence is not always accompanied by an equally impressive com...

Éric Zemmour described the 17 October violence as "the true face of the Great Replacement": hordes of "barbarians" rampaging through cities, flying Palestinian, Algerian and Moroccan flags, allied with Antifa, backed by La France Insoumise deputies, and driven by hatred of France and revenge for colonisation: his terms. Trump and the Kremlin offere...

Elon Musk's recent public warning to Democrats was unusually direct. Responding to reports that a Democratic takeover of Congress would trigger multiple investigations into him, his companies, and his time leading the Department of Government Efficiency, he wrote on X: "Live by the sword, die by the sword. Those who pick fights with me should under...

Helen Haines had barely reached hospital before her suffering became ammunition against Pauline Hanson, One Nation, conservative commentators and men generally. The accusations practically outran the investigation. Political opponents were being handed responsibility for an alleged crime without evidence connecting them to it. Labor MP for Macarthu...

The claim that the political Left is structurally prone to violence is not a new one, but it remains one of the more durable observations in modern politics. Collectivist ideologies, whether framed as socialism, communism, or various strains of social justice, treat the individual as secondary to the group or the state. When the promised equality f...