Fraser Myers's argument is that Shabana Mahmood's Liverpool conference speech killed the last hope that Andy Burnham's government would close the settlement loophole, and that the resulting bill is why Reform has to beat Labour at the ballot box rather than wait for a conversion that will not come. Mahmood had been the exception. Appointed by Keir ...

 Professor Geoffrey Blainey's importance to Australian culture extends far beyond the shelves occupied by his many books. He belongs to that increasingly rare class of scholar who helped a nation understand itself and who, when intellectual fashions changed, was prepared to defend the legitimacy of Australians taking pride in their inheritance...

Professor Ian Brighthope's letter to Donald Trump is a demand for a reckoning, not a concession that Operation Warp Speed never happened. The speed is the part he grants. The judgement is the part he will not. Brighthope is an Australian physician who describes more than forty-five years in nutritional and environmental medicine. Writing on 7 Octob...

A second village is to hold a vote on whether to have a referendum to leave the UK in protest over plans to create a camp to house 1,250 asylum seekers in a former RAF base nearby. The Telegraph has more. Barnham parish council in Suffolk is to invite villagers to decide on Saturday October 24th whether they should follow the lead of Piddington in ...

Actor, Richard Gere's latest appeal is not a complicated argument. In a video for ActionAid, released in the first week of October 2026, he says fear is replacing compassion, that people on the move are being reduced to numbers and threats, and that detention, deportation and Italy's Albania arrangement are being sold as normal. Governments may man...

 There is something perverse about a political establishment that condemns the views of fellow Australians as an extremist, fringe minority when their views are actually extremist, fringe, and in the minority. I talk about the topic of abortion, which I define plainly and clearly as killing babies in the womb. That's the harsh and unvarnished ...

Working-class New Yorkers are being forced into receiving second-tier healthcare while the illegal aliens overrunning the socialist-led city are getting cared for at the prestigious Mount Sinai Hospital. Just last month, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced that he was leading a coalition with other Democrat-run cities in launching a lawsui...

There was a time when the opening of an American municipal council meeting with an invocation to Satan would have been almost unimaginable. Yet, according to an 8 October 2026 report by Steve Watson at Modernity, precisely this occurred at council meetings in Ottumwa, Iowa, and Battle Ground, Washington. In Ottumwa, former council member Matt Dalbe...

 In what the Wall Street Journal's editorial page dubbed "the speech of the year," Secretary of State Marco Rubio laid out that President Trump's vision for America and the world is closely tied to the ideals of ancient Greece, which brought forth the great civilisation of the West. It was extraordinary in its depth and projection. Imagine a D...

The American abortion controversy has entered a particularly difficult philosophical territory, where the language of individual autonomy encounters the biological reality of a developing human being who may already be capable of surviving outside the womb. A recent LifeNews article by Raimundo Rojas warns that the struggle over abortion will conti...

Lionel Shriver's Spectator piece treats Britain as the warning and Texas as the next case. The UK's net-zero boast, that a country under 1 percent of global emissions must set an example, has failed on carbon and succeeded as a caution. In American conservative circles, she writes, Britain is now the film of what happens when Muslim immigration is ...

One of the more revealing features of the climate change debate is the tendency to move effortlessly from complex scientific findings to remarkably simple political conclusions. The climate system is influenced by numerous interacting processes, including greenhouse gases, atmospheric aerosols, clouds, ocean circulation, water vapour and natural va...

Science is supposed to be humanity's most reliable method of distinguishing fact from fiction, particularly when human lives depend upon the answers. Cancer research is among the most important examples. Billions of dollars are invested in discovering treatments, identifying the mechanisms of disease and developing drugs that might save patients fr...

 Michael de Percy's Spectator Australia piece, linked below, argues that Australian schools no longer educate boys. They disarm them. The adult version of the same reflex is a system that treats a man's physical competence as suspect on sight. He starts from the numbers. In March 2026 Education Minister Jason Clare opened an inquiry into the b...

 The third anniversary of the Hamas attacks of 7 October 2023 has revived an uncomfortable question about immigration, multiculturalism and the capacity of Western societies to maintain social cohesion. Writing in The Spectator Australia, Rowan Dean argues that Australia has failed to appreciate the extent to which deeply entrenched ideologica...

The oddities noted by Dr Malone in his essay, link below are real. They do not, by themselves, establish a cover-up or an engineered pathogen, yet, but more evidence could show this. But, they do leave a gap that Russia has chosen not to close. What is solid across Malone's piece and the wire reporting is narrower than the online conspiracy theorie...

Donald Trump has found another way of putting money directly into Americans' pockets, and this time the beneficiaries are millions of senior citizens. Beginning on 8 October 2026, more than 20 million eligible Medicare recipients are receiving one-off payments of $90, intended to offset part of their medical insurance costs. Trump announced the pay...

One of the most interesting voices in Australia's great immigration and multiculturalism debates of the 1980s has almost disappeared from public memory. Professor L. J. M. Cooray did not fit the script. He could not conveniently be dismissed as an Anglo-Australian nostalgic fearful of foreigners, because Cooray himself had been born in Sri Lanka an...

"Multiculturalism" is a convenient catchword borrowed from Canadian politics to represent a vague set of ideas which purportedly promotes the cultural and economic interests of certain non-Anglomorph sections of the Australian community. If proponents of multiculturalism are asked to describe the concept it is likely that there will be as many desc...

A Rasmussen and Our Republic survey of 1,026 likely voters, taken on 20 September 2026, found that 21 percent of voters overall have a mostly or somewhat positive view of sharia, against 57 percent negative. Among voters aged 18 to 24 the positive share is 43 percent. Among those aged 25 to 29 it is 39 percent. That is the "four in ten." A second q...