The major parties still talk as if the problem is messaging or a temporary mood. It is not. Large numbers of Australians have come to despise them, and the reasons are neither mysterious nor unjust. Decades of promises followed by quiet abandonment, of lectures delivered from insulated lives, and of self-interest dressed up as public service have d...
Australian universities have spent decades insisting that they are capable of regulating themselves. Whenever criticism arises, whether concerning foreign interference, declining academic standards, ideological conformity, administrative bloat, treatment of students, research integrity or the extraordinary dependence upon foreign money, the familia...
Most abortions happen early. That is the statistical reality. The majority occur in the first trimester, when the procedure is simpler, the embryo is less developed, and the moral and practical stakes are lower for many people. The harder question sits at the other end of pregnancy: why do some abortions still take place when the pregnancy has reac...
Anyone expecting Iran's rulers to respond to overwhelming economic pressure by quickly throwing up their hands may be misunderstanding the nature of the regime. Tehran increasingly appears to be preparing for something much less pleasant but potentially much more durable: years of economic hardship, rationing, declining living standards and c...
In late August 2024, Brazil's Supreme Court did something that still looks strange even months later. Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered a nationwide block of the social media platform X. That alone was dramatic. What followed was stranger: he also went after Virtual Private Networks. Anyone using a VPN to reach the blocked platform faced a daily ...
There are different ways of ruling a population. A government rules through laws, courts, police and institutions. An occupying army rules through force. A terrorist can rule more crudely still: make people afraid to attend church, afraid to farm their land, afraid to travel along a road, afraid that their children will be kidnapped, and afraid tha...
America is not inventing a new story. It is replaying one that Europe has already lived through in accelerated form. What began as controlled immigration and earnest multiculturalism has, over decades, produced parallel communities, rising political influence for Islamic organisations, demands for special accommodations, and growing tension between...
You've seen those colourful brain pictures. Red and yellow blobs lighting up when someone thinks about food, feels sad, or solves a puzzle. Scientists point to them and say "this is the part of your brain that does X." Newspapers love them. TED talks love them. They make the brain look like a neat machine with labelled buttons. A new study says a b...
In the heart of one of America's most conservative states, a small but explicit organisation has been doing the work that polite DEI language usually leaves unspoken. Armed Queers of Salt Lake City calls itself a "queer and trans-led Marxist-Leninist organization." Its recruitment materials list six principles: armed and militant protection of quee...
Quiet English and Welsh villages that spent generations as high-trust, low-density places are being deliberately flooded with single adult male asylum seekers on a scale that turns local populations into minorities overnight. This is not organic change or organic settlement. It is top-down placement, often without consultation, into communities tha...
In a recent essay at American Greatness, a Black writer Lipton Matthews examines South Africa's recurring waves of xenophobic violence through the lens of developmental psychology. The piece, "The Tribal Mind: Understanding South Africa's Xenophobic Violence Through Developmental Psychology," confronts images that have become grimly familiar: mobs ...
Victor Davis Hanson has a simple observation in his latest piece at American Greatness: the same Democrats who spent years shredding institutional norms now act shocked when those norms no longer shield them. The outrage is selective. The precedents were set on their watch. When the other side finally plays by the new rules, the original inno...
The Faustian spirit isn't just a poetic flourish, it's the actual engine of Western civilisation, and Mars colonisation is its most literal expression yet. Oswald Spengler's The Decline of the West (1918) identified the Ur-symbol of Western culture as infinite space. Not the bounded, finite cosmos of the Greeks; the Classical mind saw the world as ...
Nigel Farage built much of his appeal on defiance of the establishment consensus, including its expanding speech codes and the readiness of police to treat online opinions as potential crimes. That record is now showing cracks. A recent examination of statements and personnel decisions around Reform UK suggests the party is already compromising on ...
For years in the UK the loudest advocates of open or near-open borders treated migration as a moral abstraction. Illegal Channel crossings were framed as an inevitable force of nature, or as a test of national virtue. The human costs: pressure on housing, schools, hospitals, wages in low-skill sectors, and the cultural cohesion of working-cla...
The central issue that health authorities spent years trying to minimise is the nature of the spike protein itself. The COVID vaccines were designed to instruct the body to produce this protein in large quantities. It was presented as an inert antigen that would trigger immunity and then disappear. Accumulating evidence has shown that the spi...
The recent observation that AI agents "lie, cheat, and steal" arrives late. The behaviour has been visible to sceptics for some time. What has changed is scale and cost: enough people are now encountering it that mainstream coverage can no longer treat the failures as isolated bugs. These are not failures of manners. They are the predictable result...
Gabriël Moens, writing in The Spectator Australia, (link below), presents a sombre picture of the de-Christianisation of Australia and the wider Western world. Churches are closing, attendance has declined, traditional Christian moral teaching has lost much of its authority, and political and cultural institutions increasingly operate according to ...
Walter Russell Mead, writing in the Wall Street Journal, has just called mass immigration a "global powder keg." The modern era of extraordinary migration levels is beginning to ebb, he argues, and governments that fail to act thoughtfully now risk backlash, including the kind of street violence already visible in places like Thetford, England, whe...
The Reserve Bank of Australia's latest Statement on Monetary Policy paints a grim picture. Jobs growth, house prices, economic growth and productivity have all been downgraded. Inflation remains sticky and is not expected to return sustainably to the middle of the 2–3 per cent target band until early 2028. The cash rate stays at 4.35 per cent. Unem...
