Picture this: You're staring at the night sky, a canvas of stars whispering secrets from billions of years ago. Science has mapped those twinkles with telescopes and equations, charting galaxies and black holes like a cosmic GPS. Materialism, its philosophical sidekick, insists it's all just atoms bouncing in the void, no ghosts, no gods, just matt...

Oh, the irony: A Harvard-bred primatologist swings from the ivy towers to declare humanity's self-regard a tragic flaw, the hubris fuelling our ecological Armageddon. Christine Webb's The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters (Avery, 2025) paints Homo sapiens as the villain in nature's Greek tragedy, blinded by anthropoc...

The UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is introducing a new form of slavery. Perhaps we ought not to be surprised. After all, in the Politics, Aristotle famously argued that whilst people differed on the details of what was permissible regarding the practice of slavery, it could not be held that slavery was not itself a part of nature. Whether slavery ...

In a world where Big Pharma's ads promise miracle cures between football timeouts and doctors wield prescriptions like magic wands (not me), Jacob Stegenga's 2018 opus, Medical Nihilism, drops a truth bomb: We should have "little confidence in the effectiveness of medical interventions." Ouch. That's not the feel-good script from your annual checku...

Victor Gao, that evergreen mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party, drops a nuclear mic like it's casual Friday at the Politburo. In a speech that's rippling through Pakistani media and X feeds like a bad case of digital heartburn, Gao, vice president of the Center for China and Globalization and Deng Xiaoping's old English whisperer, lays it out...

October 10, 2025, and the NYC subway, once the throbbing artery of the American Dream, now a vein pulsing with venom, claims another soul. Not in some shadowy midnight ambush, but broad daylight at Jay Street-MetroTech, where the hum of commuters masks the primal roar of unchecked rage. Nicola Tanzi, 64, a beloved Italian security guard and churchg...

October 2025, and the quiet streets of Murphy, Texas, hum with a low, ominous buzz. The picket fences still gleam, but the air smells less of apple pie and more of... what, exactly? Myrrh and ambition? In this sleepy Dallas-Fort Worth exurb, where once the only drama was a late HOA fee, the shadow of a new empire creeps: Oasis Springs Manor, a fres...

Welcome to the coliseum of 2025, where thumbs-up and thumbs-down aren't decided by emperors in togas but by faceless bureaucrats, algorithm overlords, and late-night monologists with a microphone and a grudge! Last Tuesday's Senate Commerce Committee hearing, titled, with all the subtlety of a Trump tweet, Shut Your App: How Uncle Sam Jawboned Big ...

 Ah, the sweet, satirical symmetry of American justice in 2025. Just when you thought the political revenge tour had hit its plot twist ceiling, Trump back in the Oval, Truth Social ablaze with calls for "JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW!!!" — enter the Jameses. Not one, but two high-profile prosecutors named James, both now staring down indictment...

Leith van Onselen's piece (link below), offers a passionate and pragmatic takedown of the idea that Australia should hike its retirement age, currently set at 67 for Age Pension eligibility, to tackle ageing demographics and labour shortages. Drawing parallels to Germany's controversial push toward 70 or even 73, he argues that such a move wou...

Charles Taylor's Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment (2024) is a profound and timely exploration of poetry's enduring power to illuminate meaning in an era marked by nihilism and despair. As a follow-up to his groundbreaking The Language Animal, this work delves into the legacy of Romantic and post-Romantic poetics, offering a c...

The 2023 New Zealand census, dropped by Stats NZ on October 3, 2025, isn't just a spreadsheet, it's a siren for those who see a Tower of Babel crumbling in Aotearoa's future. The numbers scream change: "European only" New Zealanders, at 2,790,354 out of 4,993,923, now cling to a 55.9% share, down from 59.8% in 2018, 61.4% in 2013, and a commanding ...

In the damp and musky halls of Western Australia's Parliament, on a crisp September evening in 2025, Indian-origin Labor MP Parwinder Kaur unleashed a speech that ricocheted across the globe like a digital boomerang. Delivered amid a surge of anti-immigration protests, fuelled by housing crunches, job anxieties, and echoes of global nativism, Kaur,...

Hiding in the shadowed salons of power, where champagne flutes clink over the muffled cries of the silenced, "hate speech" isn't a shield against bigotry, it's a straitjacket for dissent. Fresh off Lionel Shriver's razor-sharp takedown in Spiked on October 7, 2025, where she eviscerates the UK's descent into speech-policing purgatory as a "poisonou...

Imagine a nation where the hum of servers drowns out the chatter of checkout lines, where self-driving rigs rumble past ghost towns of shuttered diners, and where the American Dream curdles into a collective nightmare. On October 6, 2025, radical Leftist Senator Bernie Sanders unleashed a report that paints this dystopia in stark, data-driven strok...

Dwelling in the dim corridors of European power, where the hum of fluorescent lights mingles with the murmur of classified briefings, a chilling whisper has emerged from the heart of the continent. On October 6, 2025, Andrius Kubilius, the European Commissioner for Defence and Space, dropped a bombshell in an interview with Poland's Gazeta Wyborcza...

This is a world where memes can topple governments and tweets spark revolutions, so the idea of a nation flipping a switch to silence dissent sounds like dystopian fanfic. Yet here we are: Canada's Bill C-8, a cybersecurity measure dressed in the noble robes of national defence, is barrelling through Parliament with provisions that could let the go...

In our modern world, plastic is everywhere, from the packaging of our food to the fibres in our clothes. But what if I told you that tiny fragments of this ubiquitous material are infiltrating the very air we breathe, lodging in our lungs, and potentially setting the stage for serious health issues like cancer? Recent research has shone a spotlight...

Fellow climate change sceptics you know the drill: every time the temperature ticks up a notch or a polar bear looks a bit sad, we're bombarded with headlines about how humanity's barbecues and SUVs are single-handedly turning the planet into a giant sauna. But let's pause the panic and zoom out to the bigger picture. What about nature's contributi...

The crack of gunfire that felled Charlie Kirk on September 10, 2025, at Utah Valley University didn't just pierce the neck of a conservative firebrand, it fractured the facade of a neatly packaged story. The official narrative is clean: Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old radicalised online, fired a single neck shot from a building, and fled, only to be ...