There is something almost reassuring about a ham, turkey or salami sandwich. It does not look like junk food. There is no bubbling vat of cooking oil, mountain of sugar or lurid fast-food packaging. Put sliced meat between bread with lettuce and tomato and it can look positively wholesome. That appearance may be deceptive. A new scientific re...

For decades, cheese has occupied an uncomfortable position in official nutritional thinking. It contains protein, calcium and numerous micronutrients, but it also contains the substance that generations of health advice taught us to fear: saturated fat. Hence the supermarket shelves full of reduced-fat versions of foods our grandparents simply call...

Universities have decided the phrase "ethnic minority" is now an offence. The approved substitutes are "racialised minority" and "global majority." The delivery system for this newspeak is a compulsory lecture for students. GB News hosted a short debate Saturday night over the phrases British university students are being told to drop, with one com...

There was a time when a refrigerator was just a refrigerator. It sat in the kitchen humming away, kept the milk cold, froze the peas and occasionally developed a mysterious container at the back containing something that nobody was prepared to identify. Those innocent days may be disappearing. Welcome to the fridge wars. Timothy Maney, writing at W...

Artificial intelligence presents education with a peculiar problem. We have invented a machine capable of doing many of the intellectual tasks that schools are supposed to teach children how to do. It can summarise the chapter, construct the argument, solve the problem, improve the prose, suggest the hypothesis and sometimes write the entire assign...

Peter Thiel does not think the argument that matters in 2028 is Vance against Rubio. In Berlin last month, on Mathias Döpfner's podcast, the PayPal and Palantir cofounder said he was still a Vance partisan and that it would be hard for either Republican to win. He put the odds of a democratic socialist in the White House at about fifty percent. "If...

 Cholesterol became the cause of heart attacks because a profitable story won a scientific argument in the 1960s, and the drugs that move the number arrived later to keep the story alive. A Midwestern Doctor's October 2026 essay, "The Great Cholesterol Lie and the Dangers of Statins," is one long attempt to separate the molecule from the myth....

Obscuring weak arguments behind baffling terminology has long been a woke tactic. In the Mail, Andrew Doyle offers an A to Z guide to decoding its strangest phrases, from 'white tears' to 'misogynoir'. Here's an excerpt: A Allyship The practice of advocating for people from marginalised groups and basking in the warm glow of their oppression…. B Bi...

There is near hysteria on some YouTube channels about the Siberian plague issue, with the Russian lockdown of hospitals being taken as a matter of concern: see links below. The phrase "Siberian plague" is doing too much work at once. In Russian medical history, it is the old name for anthrax. In the headlines of the last few days, however, it refer...

LONDON — The British government issued an official public apology on Tuesday for interrupting whatever it was the nice Muslim men in unmarked vans were doing at 1:00 a.m. outside a military base used by U.S. forces. The five men were quickly released after brief questioning, with Prime Minister Andy Burnham personally calling each one to offer an a...

Bettina Arndt's October 1 essay is not an argument that domestic violence is imaginary. It is an argument that the order meant to restrain it has been detached from violence, issued at industrial scale, and then used to cut fathers off from their children before any allegation is proved. She calls the result state-sanctioned parental alienation. An...

Consider him for a second before the argument starts. Scrubs, stethoscope, the ordinary face of the person you want in the room when something has gone wrong. Not a brand. Not a protocol. A doctor. For most of modern life that picture was enough. You did not need to know his politics or his employer's payer mix. You needed to know he would try to k...

A chair is a tool. Used for eleven hours, it starts to behave like a risk factor. Adults in rich countries now spend most of the waking day seated: desk, car, sofa, another screen. The harm is not the chair itself. It is the long, unbroken stretch in it. Large leg muscles go quiet. Blood flow in the lower limbs slows. The usual machinery for cleari...

The machines have not formed a secret society, invented Machine Esperanto and begun plotting the overthrow of humanity. Something both less dramatic and potentially more important is happening. Large language models began with human language because we supplied the training material. They absorbed books, websites, conversations, computer code and e...

A protest blocks a gate and demands teachers. What happened on the grass outside Lycée Gustave-Courbet in Belfort on Friday morning was a pack putting a police commander on the ground and kicking his head until he lost consciousness. The Belfort prosecutor, Paul-Édouard Lallois, called the attackers a "wild horde," the scene "unheard-of violence," ...

Janet Albrechtsen's column is blunt: every time Hanson's opponents throw up their hands at her bluntness, they remind voters that she, not the political smart money, understands their values. That is the part of the Hanson juggernaut Canberra still cannot see, and it is the part worth defending. The numbers are no longer a curiosity. Through the mi...

Anyone over the age of about 35 has no idea how far Western universities have fallen into the mire of DEI, collapsing standards and Left-wing monoculture, says Professor James Allan. It's time to sort them out. This week I'm going to really depress readers, and especially those over the age of about 35. You see, when it comes to our universities mo...

When asked by podcaster Theo Von to define socialism, New York Muslim socialist politician Zohran Mamdani offered a definition so expansive that it strips the term of any actual meaning. According to Mamdani, socialism simply means "that you will have whatever you need to live a dignified life and that it is the government's job to deliver on that....

During a Q&A session at Madrid's Complutense University, French President Emmanuel Macron doubled down on his crusade against internet liberty. Expressing dissatisfaction with the enforcement pace of the European Union's Digital Services Act (DSA), Macron revealed that he has lobbied European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to deploy ...

The Spectator Australia asked the question the Élysée is already asking in private. A protest that began in the middle of September outside one lycée (French high school), in Créteil, over missing teachers and a bare start to the school year, is now a national disorder. Pupils filmed a peaceful picket, the clip travelled, and something like a templ...