In the wake of the December 14, 2025 Bondi Beach attack, in which 15 people were killed at a Hanukkah celebration by attackers using legally obtained firearms, the Albanese government moved quickly to tighten Australia's already strict gun laws. Legislation followed in early 2026 establishing a National Gun Buyback Scheme, ownership caps, reclassif...

The tragedy is not only that Tasmania's largest farm is being turned into a carbon plantation. The deeper tragedy is that the Australian Senate refused even to examine the question. A motion for a simple inquiry into the sale of Rushy Lagoon was put. It was defeated 34 to 27. The chamber preferred not to know. Rushy Lagoon covers more than 21,000 h...

In Canada it may soon become a criminal offence to tell the truth about history, or at least to question the official version of it. The new forbidden category is "residential-school denialism." Once the term is written into the Criminal Code, anyone who condones, denies, downplays or justifies the Indian residential-school system, or who "misrepre...

Michael Baume has the measure of it. Anthony Albanese, Albo, is not a modern Charles II, the merry monarch who restored the old order after the chaos. He is a new Oliver Cromwell: the man who tears down, who regards the established social and economic arrangements as obstacles to be incinerated in the name of a higher Leftist cause. The language of...

The Left has decided that the media killed Jason Arday. Not the plagiarism. Not the fabrications about his life story. Not the universities that waved him through on the strength of a compelling narrative. The journalists. The questions. The "hounding." In the days since his death they have reached for the strongest language available: modern-day l...

There's a fight happening on the internet about salt, and both sides are missing the point. One side posts a Hans Zimmer quote next to a Lancet study and declares the shaker innocent. The other side rolls out the randomised controlled trials and declares the science settled. Both of them are arguing about a bystander while the actual criminals walk...

"If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed." It sounds almost comically modest advice fromUS Admiral William H. McRaven, a man whose military career involved some of the most consequential special operations undertaken by the United States. Yet that was precisely the point. Before attempting the extraordinary, learn to complete ...

 Australia has spent decades conducting an extraordinary social experiment with tobacco. Cigarettes remain legal, but governments have progressively taxed, regulated and socially marginalised smoking to the point where the legal product has become extraordinarily expensive. The justification has always been public health. Make smoking sufficie...

 So, there they were, the good people of the Purple Mountain Observatory, part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which is itself nested under the State Council, which is of course nested under the Communist Party, quietly trying to plant a bit of Ground Based Space Infrastructure in the gentle hills of New Zealand. Nothing sinister, you unde...

 No one needs to claim that Keir Starmer or Andy Burnham personally participated in the crimes of Britain's grooming gangs to ask difficult questions about political responsibility. The more serious and defensible issue is institutional failure. Both men occupied senior positions within institutions that intersected with one of the most disgra...

 Academic freedom is easiest to defend when nobody cares about the answer. The real test comes when researchers investigate questions that governments, universities, medical institutions or scientific establishments would rather regard as settled. COVID-19 provided perhaps the greatest such test of recent times, and the controversy surrounding...

The question should not be: "why does China use force against illegal border crossings"? China is doing what every functioning state in history has done: treating its border as a border. The question is why the West has decided that not doing that is somehow a virtue. And the answer is that the West has been captured by an ideology that has redefin...

In a matter of days, once-pristine beaches in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta have been reduced to open-air dumps and disease-ridden camps occupied by thousands of illegal migrants who refused to leave after the mass invasion from Morocco. Locals describe feces, urine, garbage, and makeshift shacks covering the sand. Contagious illnesses are spreading...

For three decades, the climate establishment has treated clouds as an annoying footnote, a "source of uncertainty" to be scrubbed away, a rounding error in models built around carbon dioxide. But a growing body of work says the opposite. Clouds are not the noise in the climate system. They are the engine, and CO2 is the passenger. The implications ...

Australia likes to think of itself as the lucky country, and nowhere does that description appear more justified than beneath our feet. We possess extraordinary deposits of iron ore, coal, gas, gold, lithium and other minerals. We sit close to the rapidly developing economies of Asia. We have political stability, sophisticated financial markets and...

Norman Fenton's The Capture of Academia is a forensic account of how British universities abandoned open inquiry for ideological conformity. Drawing on nearly five decades inside the system, the Bayesian statistician documents the slow, almost organic replacement of scholarship with activism. Hiring networks, reputational pressure, EDI bureaucracy ...

Cambridge University is now, essentially, a laughing-stock. Its DEI poster-boy, Jason Arday, whom they appointed Professor of the Sociology of Education in 2023 (aged just 37), has been revealed, rather predictably, to have plagiarized much of his doctoral thesis, to have produced woeful publications, and to be a complete fantasist. In spite of thi...

The Christian Church in the West was once a bulwark of civilisation, preaching the dignity of every human soul, the value of ordered liberty, charity, and personal responsibility. Today, large parts of it have abandoned that mission and transformed into something unrecognisable: the Church of Anti-Racism. This new faith replaces the Cross with crit...

For centuries, Britain was the great exporter of freedom. From the Magna Carta to parliamentary democracy, common law, and the principles that inspired the American Founding, the British people gave the world a model of ordered liberty, free speech, and limited government. That legacy now lies in ruins. Today, under Keir Starmer's Labour government...

The West is not dying from external conquest. It is aborting itself out of existence. Britain stands as a grim warning. In 2026, the country will cross three dark milestones: deaths will exceed births for the first time in modern history; British women will abort roughly one in three pregnancies; and the number of foreigners living in the UK will e...