The impulse to internationalise every major problem has reached a breaking point. When Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared that the United States would dismantle the International Criminal Court and restore the rights of sovereign states over globalism, he was not engaging in rhetorical excess. He was naming a structural reality that has been a...

An ancient Zen koan tells of a man fleeing a tiger. Reaching the edge of a cliff, he grabs hold of a vine and lowers himself over the precipice. Above him, the tiger waits patiently. Looking down, he sees another tiger below, ready for the moment he falls. As he clings desperately to the vine, two mice: one white, one black, begin gnawing through i...

On the evening of 25 July 2026, a white van accelerated into a crowd of people celebrating Berlin's Christopher Street Day in the Tiergarten. One woman was killed. Twenty-nine others were injured, some critically. The driver fled. Within hours the pattern was already familiar to anyone who has watched these attacks unfold across Europe for the bett...

Every summer the headlines arrive with boring regularity. Climate change is fuelling record Canadian wildfire seasons. Unprecedented fires are linked to rising temperatures. The framing is so consistent that it has become background noise, a seasonal ritual of explanation that rarely pauses to examine the forest itself. What is actually happening i...

Something has broken in the relationship between Australians and their major political parties. It is not merely the usual mid-cycle grumbling or the cyclical swing of the electoral pendulum. It is a deeper, more corrosive mood: a mixture of despair at the country's direction, disbelief that either major party offers a credible path out, and a grow...

There is a recurring pattern in the history of vaccine safety that is difficult to dismiss once the episodes are lined up. A vaccine causes measurable harm. Initial responses emphasize rarity, coincidence, or the greater good. Critics and injured families face scepticism or professional isolation. Eventually the evidence becomes hard to ignore, the...

Not yet in Australia, but America's growing controversy over Flock Safety cameras is about far more than stolen cars or catching criminals. It is becoming a test case for one of the defining political questions of the twenty-first century: how much liberty should ordinary citizens surrender in exchange for promises of greater security? As governmen...

Investigative journalist Catherine Herridge has drawn attention to declassified records that reference Chinese blackmail efforts in the context of influence operations around the 2020 election. According to her account, materials prepared for inclusion in a President's Daily Brief discussed blackmail by China. She has stated that after reviewing th...

The European Commission has refused to register the "Save Europe Act", a European Citizens' Initiative calling for a moratorium on new immigration from non-Western countries and a fundamental reform of the EU's migration and asylum system. The initiative was launched by Austrian activist Martin Sellner and Dutch commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek. It...

The European Commission's refusal to register the "Save Europe Act" European Citizens' Initiative was as predictable as sunrise. An initiative seeking a moratorium on new immigration from non-Western countries, coupled with explicit concern for the ethnic and cultural continuity of Europe's native populations, was always going to collide with the i...

Cardiorespiratory fitness is one of the more reliable markers we have for long-term brain health. People who can move efficiently, those with higher aerobic capacity measured in metabolic equivalents, tend to show lower rates of dementia, depression, and certain other psychiatric outcomes over decades of follow-up. Large observational studies, some...

For decades the public has been told that the air it breathes is quietly killing people by the tens or hundreds of thousands each year. Fine particulate matter, especially PM2.5, is presented as a silent assassin responsible for heart attacks, lung disease, and shortened lives even at the low concentrations found in modern cities. The claim underwr...

Australia's new national emergency warning system, AusAlert, is founded on an entirely sensible principle. In an age of increasingly destructive bushfires, floods, cyclones and even potential terrorist incidents, governments need the ability to warn citizens quickly. The tragic lessons of the Black Summer bushfires demonstrated that delayed or miss...

The radical proposal to shut down prisons by the Left, such as the US Democrat radicals, is not primarily a technical argument about sentencing guidelines or rehabilitation programs. At its core it is a rejection of the idea that a free society requires a functioning system of coercion against those who prey on others. When activists and theorists ...

The impulse to ban social media for teenagers is understandable. The platforms are engineered for continuous engagement, they amplify social comparison and status anxiety, and a growing body of evidence links heavy use, especially among adolescent girls, to rising rates of anxiety, depression, and distorted self-image. Restricting access until sixt...

First, the facts. Rushy Lagoon is real, despite the name. It is Tasmania's largest single farm, roughly 21,745 hectares of northern Tasmanian country that for generations ran beef, dairy and sheep. It has irrigation infrastructure and a history of substantial milk and livestock production. In July 2026 the Federal Treasurer approved its sale, for m...

Something remarkable is happening here in Victoria. The party that the political class spent decades treating as a punchline is now being spoken of, in panicked tones inside Labor's own ranks, as a potential government-in-waiting. One Nation on 27 per cent. Up to 34 seats on a good day. The possibility that Pauline Hanson's party could become the l...

 The Economist recently posed an intriguing question: should we be afraid of Elon Musk? At first glance the answer seems obvious. Musk is not a dictator. He commands no army. He was elected by no nation. He is an entrepreneur who builds electric cars, rockets, satellites, artificial intelligence and brain-computer interfaces. So why has he bec...

There is a particular kind of institutional capture that does not announce itself with crude slogans. It arrives wearing the white coat of science, speaking the language of consensus, and carrying the authority of reports that judges are invited to treat as settled fact. That is the climate litigation complex: a self-reinforcing network of activist...

Donald Trump's latest financial disclosures have attracted enormous attention, with reports suggesting that he earned at least US$2.2 billion during his first year back in the White House through a combination of property, licensing, investments and newer ventures such as cryptocurrency. If those figures are substantially correct, they represent a ...