Modern humanity has developed a comforting illusion about civilisation. Because we possess advanced computers, artificial intelligence, satellites, nuclear power, modern medicine and sophisticated industrial systems, we assume that the collapse of civilisation belongs to the distant past. The destruction of ancient cities, the disappearance of empi...

In the final days before Israel's October 27, 2026 election, Israeli media reported an "unprecedented confrontation" at the top of the country's security establishment. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to Channel 12 and later the New York Times, pressed for military action linked to Iran. IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir pushed ba...

India is the world's largest recipient of migrant remittances. World Bank and related figures place the 2025 inflow at roughly $139–151 billion, up from about $57 billion a decade earlier. That sum equals roughly 3.5–3.8 percent of India's nominal GDP. No other country has ever crossed the $100 billion mark in a single year. The money arrives from ...

The University of St Andrews, founded in 1413 and the third-oldest university in the English-speaking world, has issued a house style guide that directs staff and students away from its traditional year-group names. Bejant and bejantine for first-years, semi-bejant for second-years, tertian for third-years, and magistrand for final-year students ar...

Kamala Harris, speaking in mid-October 2026, listed measures a Democratic Congress should pursue: expand the Supreme Court, grant statehood to Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, and address housing and health costs. The remarks were not a full platform, but they were explicit enough that veteran strategist James Carville later advised the pa...

The conversation between myself and Rob McKnight begins with the UN pandemic declaration and develops into a broader discussion about national sovereignty, COVID policy, pharmaceutical influence, and nutritional medicine. This summary records the views expressed. 1.National sovereignty and informed consent. I argue that Australia should withdraw fr...

Modern civilisation has created a dependency unlike anything in human history. Almost every major economic and social activity now relies upon interconnected computer networks. Banking, food distribution, transport, medicine, electricity, government administration and communications are increasingly dependent upon digital systems operating continuo...

In late September 2026, Taoiseach Micheál Martin sat for an interview with Fox News Digital and declared that Ireland is "not overrun in any shape or form" by immigrants. The statement arrived as official figures placed the foreign-born share of the population near one in four, up sharply from roughly one in seven two decades earlier. Martin descri...

For thousands of years, mathematics has been regarded as one of humanity's greatest intellectual achievements. Unlike politics, economics or even much of experimental science, mathematics promises something approaching absolute certainty. A mathematical theorem, once properly proved, does not depend upon public opinion, government authority or the ...

Something curious is happening across the developed world. Governments that have spent decades reassuring their populations that modern technological civilisation can handle almost anything are increasingly telling ordinary people to prepare for emergencies. Japan is the latest country to attract attention, with its government preparing to issue a ...

Is it any wonder men are opting out? That's the question I asked here on Substack last May, describing the young women so many men find on offer in today's marriage market: "miserable, anxious, politically radicalised, contemptuous of men, often sexually rejecting and trained to see menace in ordinary male behaviour." I concluded many men were deci...

The debate about artificial superintelligence is dominated by a familiar assumption: eventually humanity will create a machine intelligence vastly superior to itself, and the decisive question will be whether that intelligence becomes humanity's servant, partner or master. The standard scenarios range from technological utopia to the familiar scien...

Conservative voices have long raised concerns over the demographic shift arising from high sustained migration from the Middle East and Africa, and new data confirms these fears. According to data published by La Razón, cited by La Gaceta, the number of Muslims in Europe has jumped from roughly 15 million around the year 2000 to approximately 32.5 ...

 Europe is not collapsing in a single dramatic rupture. It is steadily losing the capacity to generate new wealth while still living off the capital, institutions, and cultural inheritance built by earlier generations. Political leaders across much of the continent have treated expanding public spending, multiplying rules, and assertions of mo...

We are not facing "disturbances," but an act of war that distinguishes between "us" and "them." Opinion. France is in chaos and the government imposed a curfew in certain areas, after Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez resigned: "In some cities we have lost control". Pascal Bruckner speaks of a "silent coup d'état" in Le Figaro: "What is striking is t...

 There was a time when a trip to the supermarket involved a relatively simple transaction. One purchased groceries, the checkout operator placed them in plastic bags, and the customer carried them home. The bags were lightweight, strong, reasonably waterproof and capable of being reused for numerous household purposes. They could serve as rubb...

The prosecution of Australia's most decorated living soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith VC, has become one of the most contentious legal and military controversies in Australian history. The former Special Air Service Regiment corporal, once celebrated for extraordinary courage in Afghanistan, now faces five charges of war-crime murder arising from alleged...

Australia and the European Union concluded negotiations on a free-trade agreement in March 2026 after nearly eight years of talks. The government presents it as a straightforward win: almost all tariffs fall, Australian goods gain near-duty-free access to a market of 450 million people, critical minerals and hydrogen face fewer barriers, and a few ...

Children as young as 6 continued receiving AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine in a 2021 U.K. clinical trial, even though U.K. government advisers were aware of a potentially deadly blood clot risk, a newly released document reveals. Dr. Angus Dalgleish, professor of oncology at City St George's, University of London, said the blood clot risk should hav...

There is a seductive quality to a single, well-publicized genetic paper. It arrives with the authority of a Nature headline, gets compressed into a Reuters paragraph, and suddenly a century of archaeology and linguistics is supposed to fold itself quietly into a footnote. The 2021 Nature study of the Tarim Basin mummies has been wielded precisely t...