The trial of Lindsay Clancy was covered as a postpartum-psychosis story. That is the defence frame. The Plymouth County District Attorney's medical theory got less airtime: not "she was fine," and not "she is a monster with no illness," but a specific forensic claim that Massachusetts law actually requires the state to meet. She strangled Cora, 5, ...

The UK Piddington village revolt is being covered as a local planning dispute, a quarrel about a migrant camp sited in the wrong field. The framing is the entire problem, because what is actually happening in those villages is not a quarrel about zoning but a withdrawal of consent, and a withdrawal of consent is the first and most important act of ...

Ian Brighthope's latest article tells the story of Patricia Leidl, a former World Health Organization communications director whose testimony before Canada's Allison Inquiry raises an important question that should survive every argument about COVID-19 vaccines: what obligation does medicine have when a patient becomes seriously ill soon after rece...

The controversial Texas stadium photo full of Indians, now viral on social media, did not invent a trend. It ended the right to pretend the Great Replacement trend was abstract. That is why it detonated the Texas GOP. The people treating the frame as a headcount of "foreigners" are reporting what their eyes see. The people treating the frame as pro...

There is something wonderfully appropriate about the internet deciding that Anatoly uses fake weights. Vladimir Shmondenko, the Ukrainian powerlifter behind the world's most famous gym cleaner, has spent years making comedy out of people believing precisely that. He walks into a gym looking like somebody sent to clean the toilets, apologises for bo...

The latest Sydney Sweeney controversy is almost too on-the-nose. A sports-prediction app called Novig puts her in an ad that is barely dressed, covers her with footballs and basketballs, and repeats "just sports" like a mantra. Female athletes call it a setback for women's sport. Commentators treat it as another act of cultural sabotage. The Critic...

 Pauline Hanson's pledge to cut 750,000 temporary visa holders over three years is not a policy innovation, it is a permission slip, and the reason it lands with the force it does is that it finally says out loud the number that the entire Australian political class has spent years refusing to acknowledge, which is that temporary migration tri...

Australia has endured sports rorts, car-park rorts and enough grants controversies to fill several filing cabinets at the Australian National Audit Office. Now comes something rather more agreeable: $6 million for the local golf club. The obvious defence of Anthony Albanese over the Marrickville Golf Club affair is that the whole thing is a storm i...

The Lindsay Clancy case was always going to end the way it did, not because the evidence pointed in only one direction but because the machinery that processes these cases was built to produce exactly one outcome, and the juror who has now spoken is simply the first person to say out loud what the machinery was doing the whole time. A juror admitti...

The change this week was not a laser turret rising over the horizon. It was a sentence. Air Force Secretary Troy Meink told the Air, Space and Cyber Conference that the United States "now has on-orbit space control weapons capable of defending the Joint Force against hostile adversary action." He refused to unpack the phrase. He said it had been ch...

 "A recent suggestion by the British government contains all the wisdom of the ages; my only regret when I heard about it was that we in America had not thought of it first. Here it is, written in plain English and handed out in leaflets to all illegal immigrants residing in that rainy old place: "In Britain, rape is generally considered a no-...

Elon Musk has an extraordinary vision of the future. Artificial intelligence and humanoid robots become so productive that scarcity effectively disappears. Machines perform the unpleasant work, goods and services become abundant, employment becomes optional and everyone enjoys what Musk calls "universal high income." It sounds less like an economic...

Every time I am invited to China my heart lifts. Within 24 hours of arriving, I have usually hit rock-bottom. By the time my visit is over, I am only too glad to be boarding the plane for Hong Kong and on to the UK. If you want a 'full fat' experience of China, try visiting as a keynote speaker at a conference. On arrival at the airport there will,...

Liberalism's immigration problem is not a policy problem that can be solved with a better talking point or a more clever distinction between legal and illegal migration. It is a philosophical problem that has been growing for half a century, and the philosophy is missing because liberalism spent the last fifty years pretending that its founding com...

The German state is not burning Stefan Magnet's book, "Transhumanism: War Against Humanity," it is doing something more precise and more instructive, which is routing an intelligence service's political classification through a child-protection statute in order to achieve what a criminal trial could never achieve, namely the commercial death of an ...

The Albanese Government is building a censorship machine, and the most important thing to understand is that it doesn't look anything like the censorship machine most people have in their heads. There's no Department of Censorship. There's no miserable bureaucrat sitting in Canberra reading your Facebook posts and stamping APPROVED or BANNED across...

 Michael Snyder has been warning that the next great crisis is just around the corner. Economic collapse, war, shortages and financial instability are familiar territory on his blog, and sensible readers have learned to distinguish the useful information he collects from the apocalyptic conclusions he sometimes draws from it. His latest w...

Sweden's 2026 election was not a referendum on ideas, a landslide, or a verdict on the national soul. It was a thirty-thousand-vote gap and a three-seat story. In a photo finish you do not need a theory of character. You need to know which bloc added voters at the margin. The numbers keep giving the same answer, and the respectable press keeps circ...

There is a recurring difficulty with government schemes designed to make things fairer. Somebody eventually receives the bill. Labor's proposed changes to the private health insurance rebate provide an unusually clear example, because new Parliamentary Budget Office modelling indicates that a remarkably large share of the government's savings will ...

Australia may be about to conduct one of the more interesting infrastructure experiments in the developed world. We are attempting to retire much of the electricity generation upon which the country historically depended, electrify increasing portions of transport and industry, build a predominantly renewable replacement system, and at exactly the ...