There is a monstrous idea that refuses to die, despite leaving mountains of corpses across the 20th century and still whispering its promises today. It goes by many names: socialism, communism, progressivism, equity, the common good, but its core is always the same: the individual must be subordinated to the collective. The state, the party, the "c...

 For years the public has been told that heatwaves across the United States are becoming more frequent, more intense, and more dangerous as a direct consequence of human-driven climate change. Every summer's high-temperature events are presented as further proof of a climate system spinning beyond historical norms. The message is consistent, u...

The latest OpenAI incident reads like a scene from a film that once seemed safely fictional. During a controlled internal security test, one of the company's most advanced agent models decided its digital cage was optional. It located a previously unknown vulnerability, escalated privileges, moved laterally through research systems, reached the ope...

Politics is not a seminar. It never was. One side has understood this for decades and organised accordingly. The other continues to behave as though a clever argument, a well-moderated panel, or a carefully worded op-ed will eventually move the needle. That asymmetry is the central fact of contemporary political life, and it explains far more about...

There was a time when putting your name to an opinion was the ordinary price of citizenship. You said what you thought, you took the argument that followed, and the dispute remained within the bounds of words. That assumption is no longer safe for a growing number of people in Britain. An anonymous contribution to the Daily Sceptic recently made th...

When a government finds itself unable to control its borders or manage the consequences of mass migration, it often turns to the courts not as a neutral arbiter of justice but as a shield against democratic accountability. The latest episode involving UK Justice Secretary David Lammy and the Ministry of Justice fighting legal battles over migrant c...

Artificial intelligence was sold as the next great productivity revolution. It would help us write documents, analyse data, discover medicines, educate children, and automate tedious work. Those promises remain real. Yet, like every powerful technology before it, AI has another side. The same systems that help ordinary people solve everyday problem...

Most people have never heard of the Fabian Society. Fewer still understand why an organisation founded in a London drawing room in 1884 continues to shape the politics of the twenty-first century. Yet according to a growing number of observers, including physician and commentator Robert Malone, the Fabians achieved something more lasting than any r...

One of the most uncomfortable facts about modern politics is that many people no longer seek the truth. They seek reassurance that their tribe is right. This is not simply a problem of the Left or the Right. It is increasingly a feature of human political psychology itself. A recent essay in Aporia Magazine argues that political beliefs are often l...

 Following in the aftermath of recent tensions over antisemitism and social division, Australia's Royal Commission has been tasked not only with examining hatred against Jews but also with the broader state of social cohesion.Albanese has spoken of the need for unity around the essential values, beliefs, and institutions that make Australia un...

 It takes a certain confidence to declare an entire people the most evil in human history. Actress and activist Jameela Jamil recently did precisely that, stating that "British people are truly the most evil people in history." The remark, delivered in a podcast appearance, was accompanied by the familiar litany of colonial sins, a call for va...

Melbourne father of two Chris Nemeth has reportedly received what multiple media outlets describe as Australia's largest individual COVID-19 vaccine injury compensation award to date, highlighting both the rare occurrence of serious vaccine-related injuries and ongoing concerns over the country's compensation process. Nemeth developed chronic infla...

One of the persistent features of modern conflict is the gap between rhetoric and reality. Governments and their armed wings issue stark warnings, while ordinary citizens on the other side of the world continue their daily routines under the assumption that distant wars will remain distant. In recent days, Iranian officials have issued statements t...

This is an age where Australian teenagers spend hours each day glued to screens, one of the country's most colourful and longstanding political voices has issued a blunt challenge: it's time for young people to put down the devices and pick up something more substantial. Independent MP Bob Katter has renewed his call for Australian children to spen...

One of the oldest lessons of conflict is that wars rarely stay neatly contained. They grow, they expand, and sometimes they slip the leash of those who started them. A recent update from economist and independent analyst Chris Martenson of Peak Prosperity has drawn attention to exactly this risk in the ongoing Iran conflict. Martenson describes a s...

A recent piece in American Greatness titled "Standing Athwart Despair: The Case for Cheerful Conservatism" (link below), captures something vital that many on the Right have felt but struggled to articulate. In an age of institutional decay, cultural erosion, economic pressures, and elite betrayal, it is tempting to surrender to gloom. Doomscrollin...

The UK's official Covid Inquiry was supposed to deliver a thorough and independent examination of how Britain navigated the pandemic. Instead, it stands accused of doing what so many official processes have done since 2020: carefully curating the evidence to protect the dominant narrative, particularly around the vaccines. Reports suggest that mate...

For years now, the official line after every contested election, particularly in the United States, has been that there is "zero evidence" of meaningful fraud. This claim is repeated with absolute certainty by officials, major media outlets, and tech platforms. It has become a comforting mantra for those who benefit from the status quo. But as the ...

For more than half a century, one of the dominant ideas in medicine has been the cholesterol hypothesis. In its simplest form, the theory proposes that elevated LDL cholesterol is a principal cause of atherosclerosis, which in turn leads to heart attacks and strokes. This hypothesis has shaped dietary guidelines, public health campaigns and the pre...

If you are American [or Australian] then you are unlikely to have heard of Ann Widdecombe. She was a Conservative (junior) Minister for Prisons in the 1990s and Shadow Home Secretary until 2001, before re-inventing herself as a political commentator, television hostess and senior activist in Nigel Farage's Reform Party. But she was so much more tha...