One of the most uncomfortable facts about modern politics is that many people no longer seek the truth. They seek reassurance that their tribe is right. This is not simply a problem of the Left or the Right. It is increasingly a feature of human political psychology itself. A recent essay in Aporia Magazine argues that political beliefs are often l...

 Following in the aftermath of recent tensions over antisemitism and social division, Australia's Royal Commission has been tasked not only with examining hatred against Jews but also with the broader state of social cohesion.Albanese has spoken of the need for unity around the essential values, beliefs, and institutions that make Australia un...

 It takes a certain confidence to declare an entire people the most evil in human history. Actress and activist Jameela Jamil recently did precisely that, stating that "British people are truly the most evil people in history." The remark, delivered in a podcast appearance, was accompanied by the familiar litany of colonial sins, a call for va...

Melbourne father of two Chris Nemeth has reportedly received what multiple media outlets describe as Australia's largest individual COVID-19 vaccine injury compensation award to date, highlighting both the rare occurrence of serious vaccine-related injuries and ongoing concerns over the country's compensation process. Nemeth developed chronic infla...

One of the persistent features of modern conflict is the gap between rhetoric and reality. Governments and their armed wings issue stark warnings, while ordinary citizens on the other side of the world continue their daily routines under the assumption that distant wars will remain distant. In recent days, Iranian officials have issued statements t...

This is an age where Australian teenagers spend hours each day glued to screens, one of the country's most colourful and longstanding political voices has issued a blunt challenge: it's time for young people to put down the devices and pick up something more substantial. Independent MP Bob Katter has renewed his call for Australian children to spen...

One of the oldest lessons of conflict is that wars rarely stay neatly contained. They grow, they expand, and sometimes they slip the leash of those who started them. A recent update from economist and independent analyst Chris Martenson of Peak Prosperity has drawn attention to exactly this risk in the ongoing Iran conflict. Martenson describes a s...

A recent piece in American Greatness titled "Standing Athwart Despair: The Case for Cheerful Conservatism" (link below), captures something vital that many on the Right have felt but struggled to articulate. In an age of institutional decay, cultural erosion, economic pressures, and elite betrayal, it is tempting to surrender to gloom. Doomscrollin...

The UK's official Covid Inquiry was supposed to deliver a thorough and independent examination of how Britain navigated the pandemic. Instead, it stands accused of doing what so many official processes have done since 2020: carefully curating the evidence to protect the dominant narrative, particularly around the vaccines. Reports suggest that mate...

For years now, the official line after every contested election, particularly in the United States, has been that there is "zero evidence" of meaningful fraud. This claim is repeated with absolute certainty by officials, major media outlets, and tech platforms. It has become a comforting mantra for those who benefit from the status quo. But as the ...

For more than half a century, one of the dominant ideas in medicine has been the cholesterol hypothesis. In its simplest form, the theory proposes that elevated LDL cholesterol is a principal cause of atherosclerosis, which in turn leads to heart attacks and strokes. This hypothesis has shaped dietary guidelines, public health campaigns and the pre...

If you are American [or Australian] then you are unlikely to have heard of Ann Widdecombe. She was a Conservative (junior) Minister for Prisons in the 1990s and Shadow Home Secretary until 2001, before re-inventing herself as a political commentator, television hostess and senior activist in Nigel Farage's Reform Party. But she was so much more tha...

Here in the heart of a continent quietly slipping away from its historic peoples, a young Dutch woman has stepped forward with a message that many consider too blunt for polite company. Eva Vlaardingerbroek, legal philosopher, commentator, and driving force behind the Save Europe Act, delivers speeches that cut through the euphemisms. In one recent...

"Sweden Democrat Maria Rosander says tougher laws have curbed shootings in Uppsala, but parallel societies, clan networks and Islamist influence remain entrenched. A veteran Swedish police officer says tougher criminal laws have sharply improved security in Uppsala, but warns that Islamization and parallel social structures now pose a deeper long-t...

Yemen's Ansarullah (Houthis) have announced a maritime embargo against Saudi Arabia, declaring a naval blockade on Saudi ports in the Red Sea. The move, framed as an "eye for an eye" response to what the group calls a Saudi "oppressive siege" on Yemen, includes threats to target vessels loading or discharging cargo at Saudi facilities. Reports indi...

Political violence is not new to the West, nor is it the exclusive domain of any single ideology. History is littered with assassinations, bombings, and targeted killings from anarchists, nationalists, religious extremists, and both ends of the political spectrum. What makes a contemporary claim, that there is a discernible "rise of Left-wing slayi...

This issue cuts to the heart of a quiet but consequential shift: what happens when a determination of exposure to a biological or chemical threat rests not on a swab that still contains the agent, a residue that can be independently assayed, or a symptom that a physician can observe, but on an algorithm comparing a person's epigenetic profile again...

Civilisations rarely die from a single external blow. More often they hollow out from within, the structural beams quietly chewed away until a roof that looked solid suddenly sags. Our Aussie image of white ants, termites working unseen in the wood, is apt for the claim that the West is being eaten not just by unassimilated outsiders, but by forces...

One of the oldest truths of war is that its first casualty is truth. Governments routinely claim that operations are proceeding as planned, casualties are light, and victory is near. Only later, sometimes years or decades later, does the fuller, often messier picture emerge. Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, and countless earlier wars have taught us this...

Science fiction writer, Philip K. Dick's warning about disinformation and the erasure of shared reality remains one of the sharpest diagnoses of modern information warfare. The line attributed to him: "if you can float enough disinformation into circulation you will totally abolish everyone's contact with reality, probably your own included," captu...