Leading US Black intellectual, Thomas Sowell, has one of those sayings that initially sounds almost unbearably pessimistic: "There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs." Surely there are solutions to some things. Antibiotics solve infections. Engineers solve structural problems. A mechanic solves the problem of a broken alternator. Sowell is...
In late 2025, Kerala Police in India dismantled a multi-state fake degree racket, arresting 11 suspects and seizing over 100,000 counterfeit certificates linked to around 22 universities or institutions. Authorities estimated that up to 1 million fraudulent degrees could be in circulation. The forged documents primarily targeted fields like medicin...
There is an old anti-war saying, in various forms: suppose they gave a war and nobody came? Britain may be about to conduct a small and rather interesting experiment in that proposition. The Liberal Democrats have urged Prime Minister Andy Burnham to establish a national register of civilians willing to help if Britain comes under attack or faces a...
Canada ran the same experiment Australia is still running, then cut. Labor's refusal is why the party is becoming the issue. Canada did what Australian commentary treats as unthinkable. After a post-pandemic surge that took net overseas migration to 1.23 million in the year to March 2024, Ottawa capped permanent intake, slashed students and tempora...
James Simpson's Red-Green Axis 3.0 and Robert Spencer's discussion of it rest on a political question that will not go away. How does a revolutionary Left that champions secularism, sexual liberation and radical social experimentation repeatedly find itself marching alongside movements whose religious and social doctrines may reject much of that pr...
Something curious is happening in Britain. War is moving from the specialist vocabulary of generals and defence planners into ordinary public conversation, and the British people are increasingly being invited to imagine themselves not merely watching another foreign conflict on television but participating in one. The BBC has now joined that conve...
The temperature data that is used to sell the need for "net zero CO2" and all the accompanying climate change hysteria is based on a mass deception, a manipulation of temperature data, a misrepresentation of historical trajectory of natural weather phenomenon. Climate scientists are increasingly waking up to this evil climate change agenda and expo...
There are diplomatic speeches, and then there are Javier Milei speeches. The Argentine president arrived at the United Nations General Assembly and proceeded to tell the organisation hosting him that it had become a "useless organization" serving a caste of "fatally arrogant parasites" masquerading as well-intentioned bureaucrats. One suspects this...
A boat of about sixty people left the Normandy coast, spent more than thirty-three hours in what the French coastguard called precarious conditions, and refused repeated offers of help from a French vessel that was already there. The French said those aboard were "determined to take all risks to reach the United Kingdom." British boats later took f...
W. Galt's piece in American Thinker does not waste time on robes and punch. A cult, he writes, is a mental structure: doctrine that cannot be doubted, an us-and-them world, narrative over fact, leaders who do not fall, and denial that protects the group when reality arrives. Stack that list against the activist and institutional Left, not every per...
J.B. Shurk's line in American Thinker (link below), is that Europeans should overthrow their ruling class rather than be volunteered for a war with Russia while the home front is treated as optional. The timing is the usual one: security panics before elections, parties branded as Moscow's cut-outs, commissions talking hybrid war, ministers talking...
Are there data showing whether routine childhood vaccines pose less risk than the diseases they target? A review of some childhood vaccines suggests those data don't exist. What the available data do show is this: The risk of serious adverse events caused by vaccines often outweighs the risk of contracting the disease if not vaccinated. Recent meas...
George Monbiot has seen some terrible driving. Street racers in the West Midlands doing 90 in a 30. Convoys in mid-Wales that woke his infant daughter. Lifted pickups in Devon that "roll coal" at cyclists. Soft sentences. Police who want a number plate and a form. SUVs with bonnets that hide children. None of that requires a new branch of gender st...
In Europe, with paranoia about a Russian invasion and the like, the issue of conscription is once more on the agenda, and so must be opposition to this. At its core, individual liberty is grounded in self-ownership. A free person owns their body, mind, and the fruits of their labor. Yet, throughout history, the nation-state has claimed an ultimate,...
The 50th anniversary of the death of Chairman Mao has just passed. Mao Zedong remains one of the most polarising figures of the 20th century. While lauded by party loyalists as the founding father who unified modern China, his decades-long reign resulted in the deaths of tens of millions of people through targeted state executions, political purges...
After two decades of population growth running far hotter than the OECD pack, the polling has stopped being subtle. The latest Newspoll, the one Macrobusiness hung its piece on, finds about two-thirds of Australians want immigration cut: 37 percent "a lot fewer," 29 percent "fewer." Six percent want more. Twenty-eight percent would leave it a...
While this has some technicalities, critiques of climate change alarmism, and hence zero net, are important enough to grin and bear a few technicalities. A newly published paper by Demetris Koutsoyiannis (link below), argues that the familiar thirty-three-degree gap between Earth's effective radiating temperature, about 255 K (Kelvin to Celsius: Su...
There is good news for Australia's struggling renters. Just when more than half are reportedly experiencing financial difficulty and advertised rents have risen by roughly 50 per cent since the pandemic, governments continue to ensure that hundreds of thousands of additional people enter the country each year requiring somewhere to live. It is an u...
Andy Burnham has announced plans for a new "National Centre for Information Defence" to fight so-called "disinformation" as he blamed Russia for "amplifying far Right narratives", prompting fresh fears for free speech. GB News has more. The Prime Minister, addressing the United Nations, announced the centre to improve "community cohesion" and preve...
Anthony Albanese went to the United Nations last week to talk about rules, middle powers, AI agents in government websites, and Australia's Digital Duty of Care. Last year's pitch was the under-16 social media ban, now copied in talking points by twenty-odd countries. This year's add-on is a broader duty on platforms: user control of feeds, ministe...
