Victoria's COVID lockdowns inflicted enormous economic and social damage. Businesses were ordered to close, workers lost their livelihoods, families exhausted their savings, and ordinary citizens were subjected to extraordinary restrictions upon their freedom. The government insisted that these sacrifices were necessary for the public good. Yet whi...
In mid-2026 a server rack went live inside the National University of Singapore's Life Sciences Institute. It does not look like ordinary data-centre hardware. Twenty CL1 units, each the size of a shoebox, sit in a standard rack. Inside them, lab-grown human neurons rest on multielectrode arrays. Technicians feed the cultures a nutrient mix every t...
The artificial intelligence revolution is usually presented as an extraordinary technological achievement, promising greater productivity, scientific breakthroughs and a transformation of everyday life. Yet behind the apparently immaterial world of digital information stands an enormous physical infrastructure of computer servers, cooling equipment...
Your employer calls you a human resource. Your bank knows you as an account. Advertisers classify you by what you might buy. Political strategists place you in a demographic. Somewhere, a spreadsheet records your contribution, your preferences, or your probable cost. You can pass through an entire day being measured without anyone asking what your ...
What began in mid-September 2026 as protests over overcrowded classrooms, teacher shortages, and underfunded high schools in France has grown into the largest youth-led mobilisation in years and spilled across borders. Hundreds of thousands of students, joined by teachers, parents, and later unions and cost-of-living demonstrators, have marched in ...
Sometimes the most useful health discoveries concern ordinary foods that have been consumed for thousands of years. Nuts are a good example. Long before modern nutritional science began investigating their biochemical properties, almonds, walnuts, hazelnuts and other nuts were valued as concentrated sources of nourishment. Modern research is increa...
British Defence Secretary Wes Streeting has set a deadline. Writing in the Telegraph, he argued that the United Kingdom's adversaries could be in a position to attack by 2030, giving the country "a little over 1,000 days to complete our mission: to be ready with our allies to fight and win." The threat, he said, is not limited to conventional force...
Modern humanity has developed a comforting illusion about civilisation. Because we possess advanced computers, artificial intelligence, satellites, nuclear power, modern medicine and sophisticated industrial systems, we assume that the collapse of civilisation belongs to the distant past. The destruction of ancient cities, the disappearance of empi...
In the final days before Israel's October 27, 2026 election, Israeli media reported an "unprecedented confrontation" at the top of the country's security establishment. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to Channel 12 and later the New York Times, pressed for military action linked to Iran. IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir pushed ba...
India is the world's largest recipient of migrant remittances. World Bank and related figures place the 2025 inflow at roughly $139–151 billion, up from about $57 billion a decade earlier. That sum equals roughly 3.5–3.8 percent of India's nominal GDP. No other country has ever crossed the $100 billion mark in a single year. The money arrives from ...
The University of St Andrews, founded in 1413 and the third-oldest university in the English-speaking world, has issued a house style guide that directs staff and students away from its traditional year-group names. Bejant and bejantine for first-years, semi-bejant for second-years, tertian for third-years, and magistrand for final-year students ar...
Kamala Harris, speaking in mid-October 2026, listed measures a Democratic Congress should pursue: expand the Supreme Court, grant statehood to Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, and address housing and health costs. The remarks were not a full platform, but they were explicit enough that veteran strategist James Carville later advised the pa...
The conversation between myself and Rob McKnight begins with the UN pandemic declaration and develops into a broader discussion about national sovereignty, COVID policy, pharmaceutical influence, and nutritional medicine. This summary records the views expressed. 1.National sovereignty and informed consent. I argue that Australia should withdraw fr...
Modern civilisation has created a dependency unlike anything in human history. Almost every major economic and social activity now relies upon interconnected computer networks. Banking, food distribution, transport, medicine, electricity, government administration and communications are increasingly dependent upon digital systems operating continuo...
In late September 2026, Taoiseach Micheál Martin sat for an interview with Fox News Digital and declared that Ireland is "not overrun in any shape or form" by immigrants. The statement arrived as official figures placed the foreign-born share of the population near one in four, up sharply from roughly one in seven two decades earlier. Martin descri...
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 ...
