J.D. Vance is right. The Republican Party lost the midterms because of the war with Iran. Not because voters suddenly fell in love with the opposition's domestic agenda, and not because of any sudden collapse in cultural or immigration politics. They lost because the war produced a fuel crisis that slammed an already fragile cost-of-living environm...

The Albanese Labor government's controversial Online Safety Amendment (Digital Duty of Care) Bill 2026 has passed the House of Representatives, bringing Australia another step closer to a sweeping new system of internet regulation. On October 28, the legislation secured its third reading by 96 votes to 38, despite opposition from the Coalition and ...

An extraordinary story from England illustrates how far the modern bureaucratic state can drift from ordinary ideas of justice. Writing in The Daily Sceptic on 28 October 2026, Guy Carpenter describes how he was prosecuted after picking up a dead deer from the roadside. His intention was simple: take the animal home and use it for food. Instead, he...

"I don't let little Johnny play with pit bulls. I know, I know, 'not all pits." Yeah, and I'm sure that's what everyone in the neighbourhood said about that one house. Look, pit bulls are sweet. Ninety percent of them, truly lovely dogs, welcome additions to our diverse culture. It's just — every single time you hear about someone's face being rear...

Almost 50,000 people whose protection visa claims have been refused, and whose appeal rights are exhausted, remain in Australia. That is the core fact from Senate estimates in late October 2026. Home Affairs official Andrew Kiley told the committee that 47,715 protection visa applicants had completed their appeal processes but had not left. Add the...

In February 2015, a photograph of an ordinary dress produced one of the strangest controversies in internet history. Millions of people argued about a seemingly simple question: what colour was the dress? Some insisted that it was blue and black. Others were equally certain that it was white and gold. Both groups looked at the same photograph, yet ...

For generations, the promise of modern economic life was relatively straightforward. Study hard, acquire qualifications, develop professional skills, work diligently and gradually advance towards a secure career. The system was never perfect, but it offered millions of people a reasonable expectation that experience and education would eventually b...

For more than twenty-five years, an important mystery has surrounded some of the mathematical codes used to protect internet communications. These codes help secure banking transactions, digital signatures and other sensitive information. Although the mathematics behind them was publicly available, nobody outside their original designers could expl...

A video compilation entitled KARMA! Cocky Girls Getting Humbled for Disrespecting Men, linked below, shows a series of physical confrontations in which women initiate or escalate altercations with men, only to discover that their opponents possess considerable advantages in physical strength and power. Although such compilations are selective and c...

Artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly sophisticated, and one of the more disturbing possibilities is that future AI systems will become extraordinarily effective at persuading human beings to believe, desire and do things they would otherwise reject. Connor Leahy, the US Executive Director of ControlAI, is among those warning that humani...

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Anthony Dillon are right. Their recent arguments in The Australian; Price's call for Indigenous men to step up against sexual abuse and violence, and Dillon's case that Indigenous patriarchy requires cultural change, cut through the ritual language that has long shielded a devastating reality. Vulnerable Aboriginal wome...

As Australians grow older, tooth loss becomes an increasingly common problem. Decay, gum disease, fractured teeth and decades of wear can leave elderly people facing difficult decisions about their dental health. Modern dentistry offers an impressive range of restorative procedures, particularly dental implants, which are frequently presented as th...

Canada has produced another development in its increasingly controversial medical assistance in dying programme, commonly known as MAID. According to an October 28, 2026, Breitbart report, the Canadian government is considering legislation that would permit euthanasia in certain circumstances after a person has lost the mental capacity to provide i...

Western civilization's physical monuments still inspire awe. Mont-Saint-Michel, St. Peter's, the Colosseum, Westminster Abbey, Neuschwanstein, the Empire State Building, the Golden Gate Bridge, Hoover Dam, the Library of Congress, these are not merely engineering feats. They are the visible residue of a civilisation that also produced its distincti...

There is much in Elon Musk's public pronouncements that invites criticism. His impulsiveness, occasional overstatements, cultural provocations, and willingness to wade into contested political terrain have supplied critics with ready material for years. Reasonable people can disagree with his views on regulation, speech, demographics, or government...

Recent data points make the pattern hard to ignore. China's fertility rate sits near one child per woman; births fell for a fourth straight year to levels last seen when the country's population was a fraction of its present size. The United States recorded another record low general fertility rate of 53.2 births per 1,000 women of childbearing age...

Every October, Australians are subjected to another imported cultural spectacle: Halloween. Supermarkets fill their shelves with plastic skulls, witches, skeletons, fake blood and grotesque costumes. Children are encouraged to dress as monsters and wander through neighbourhoods demanding sweets. Schools, shopping centres and entertainment businesse...

Victoria's COVID lockdowns inflicted enormous economic and social damage. Businesses were ordered to close, workers lost their livelihoods, families exhausted their savings, and ordinary citizens were subjected to extraordinary restrictions upon their freedom. The government insisted that these sacrifices were necessary for the public good. Yet whi...

In mid-2026 a server rack went live inside the National University of Singapore's Life Sciences Institute. It does not look like ordinary data-centre hardware. Twenty CL1 units, each the size of a shoebox, sit in a standard rack. Inside them, lab-grown human neurons rest on multielectrode arrays. Technicians feed the cultures a nutrient mix every t...

The artificial intelligence revolution is usually presented as an extraordinary technological achievement, promising greater productivity, scientific breakthroughs and a transformation of everyday life. Yet behind the apparently immaterial world of digital information stands an enormous physical infrastructure of computer servers, cooling equipment...