In the wake of controversies like the recent x.AI Grok "undressing" surge on X — where users prompt AI to generate sexualised deepfakes of real people without consent — the debate over free speech versus harm has intensified. John Stuart Mill, the 19th-century philosopher whose On Liberty (1859) remains a cornerstone of liberal thought, offers a ti...
Environmentalism once stood as a deeply humanistic endeavor. Its original purpose was straightforward and life-affirming: to protect and wisely manage natural resources so that human beings could live healthier, more prosperous, and more enjoyable lives. This conservation ethic celebrated human stewardship over nature, viewing a clean and sustainab...
The nursery rhyme about Humpty Dumpty – that fragile egg who falls from a wall and shatters beyond repair – has never felt more apt for modern Britain. While Humpty's fate was accidental, Britain's woes are entirely self-inflicted. As David Shipley argues in his recent piece for The Critic, the British state isn't collapsing under external forces; ...
In a heated session of Australia's Senate estimates in December 2025, Senator Alex Antic grilled officials from the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) over the agency's failure to investigate reported child deaths following COVID-19 vaccinations. This scrutiny comes amid growing international concerns, including a U.S. investigation into simila...
Ursula von der Leyen, non-popularly-elected president of the European Commission* and ultra-girlboss extraordinaire, recently came out swinging against free speech in a white-knuckle speech in which she likened "malign information" to a "virus" that society must be inoculated against (by the state, obviously) via the "vaccine" of "prebunking," a eu...
The reality is this is not the birth of a new system but a resurrection of an old one. The ruling elite longs to drag us back to the age before democracy, before personal liberty, before human dignity… back to a world of aristocrats and obedient subjects, where a tiny class lived in luxury while everyone else laboured under harsh conditions to sust...
Greetings fellow curious minds! If you've ever flicked on a light switch and pictured a rush of electrons zooming from a distant power plant straight to your bulb, like water gushing through a pipe, you're not alone. That's the classic story we all learned in school. But as a popular YouTube video from Veritasium (titled "The Big Misconception Abou...
At a moment when many on the political Left seek to consign oil to the dustbin of history, it's worth taking a sober look at what oil actually represents: not some filthy symbol of the past, but the most powerful and flexible energy carrier humanity has yet harnessed — and the very backbone of our modern technological age. 1. Oil Built the Modern W...
Younger generations in the West today often express admiration for socialism. Whether on social media, in college classrooms, or in viral memes, there's a common theme: capitalism is seen as exploitative, inequality is portrayed as inherent rather than contingent, and socialism is depicted as the moral alternative — one that promises fairness, secu...
San Francisco's quiet approval of a reparations framework promising, in theory, up to $5 million per eligible Black resident, is another example of how politics driven by symbolism and moral grandstanding can drift dangerously far from reality. Mayor Daniel Lurie signed the ordinance discreetly, just before Christmas, establishing a reparations fun...
A recent publication highlighted on The Focal Points and elsewhere has drawn intense attention by claiming a connection between COVID-19 vaccination and cancer, based on a systematic review that reportedly identifies over 300 peer-reviewed cases and multiple studies in 27 countries showing cancer diagnoses, recurrence, or progression occurring afte...
Eliyahu Haddad, writing in The Jerusalem Post on 31 December 2025, highlights a demographic and cultural shift in Western societies that often goes unmentioned in polite discussion. As he notes: "What once required 500 years of military conquest now unfolds in just 50 years through immigration and demographics. Europe's Muslim population has surged...
James Hankins's resignation from Harvard — and his public critique of how Western universities have embraced a radical woke agenda — should have been an international wake-up call. Instead, it was treated as just another professor quitting his job. But what Hankins describes isn't a fringe irritation; it's a full-blown cultural offensive that has h...
The claim that home ownership is a form of "white supremacy," made by the radical Left, is not merely wrong; it is a profound misreading of human aspiration. Across the Western world, and far beyond it, people of every race, culture, and background want the same basic thing: a secure place to live, some control over their own space, and a measure o...
Roland Rolandsen's examination of the absurd arithmetic behind Big Australia does more than poke holes in numbers. It exposes something more fundamental: this is not a debate won or lost on spreadsheets, but one profoundly shaped by ideology — the modern greed creed of permanent growth at all costs. This critique is telling because it highlights a ...
Josh Konstantinos recently described a curious cultural pattern as "sterile polygamy" — a social condition where relationships proliferate without permanence, commitment, or generative intimacy. It's a vivid phrase, but it only begins to name a deeper structural collapse: not simply a transformation of marriage, but the erosion of stable male-femal...
Modern strength sport worships the moment: one maximal lift, one chemically inflated contraction, one viral clip. Arthur Saxon would have dismissed it as a circus trick. Who Arthur Saxon Actually Was Arthur Saxon (real name Arthur Hennig, 1878–1921) was born into working-class Germany and grew up in poverty. He did not emerge from gyms, laboratorie...
In the heart of Europe's progressive capital, a recent incident has sparked heated debate about government priorities, resource distribution, and the balance between globalist-imposed humanitarian obligations and domestic responsibilities. Berlin's handling of a massive power outage in its southwest districts — leaving tens of thousands without hea...
No civilised person wants to defend bigotry. That battle was fought and rightly won decades ago. Racism, sectarian hatred, and arbitrary exclusion based on immutable traits are moral failures and social poisons. But something odd has happened since then: the word "discrimination" itself has been placed beyond the pale, as if all forms of judgment, ...
Dr. Benjamin Spock, the darling of postwar liberal parenting, built his empire on a simple mantra: trust your instincts, shower children with affection, and reject the "rigid" discipline of previous generations. His 1946 bestseller, Baby and Child Care, sold over 50 million copies, making it the go-to bible for millions of parents — second only to ...
