Childcare policy in the rich world has a quiet prejudice. It will spend public money to put a toddler in an institution so that both adults can clock in. It will not spend the same money, or anything like it, if one parent stays home and does the work herself. The arrangement is sold as help for families. It is help for a particular family shape: t...
A country does not slide into civil disturbance because a politician invents a mood. It slides because the public has been telling the same story for years and the state has answered with process. Nigel Farage's warning after Portsmouth, that Britain is on the edge of "serious civil disturbance" if the boats are not stopped, is not a novelty act. I...
"What we call "globalism" has been on the march for eighty years. A system that embraces centralized markets, bureaucratic regulation, international institutions, and so-called non-governmental organizations (predominantly funded by governments), globalism places significant power in the hands of a small collection of wealthy and powerful stakehold...
A civilisation that wants women to be adults cannot keep treating them as weather. Weather happens to you. An adult acts, and then answers for the act. The Lindsay Clancy case has become a public argument because a large part of the culture no longer accepts that sequence when the actor is female and the wreckage is intimate. Three children are dea...
A map is a lie that tells the truth. That is not a slogan. It is the first fact of cartography. The Earth is a sphere, slightly flattened, spinning, and continuously changing at the edges of ice and coast. Paper is flat. A screen is flat. Any attempt to put one onto the other must choose what to preserve and what to sacrifice. Distances, areas, ang...
"The British people are rising up. What choice do they have? The Labour party has betrayed them, destroyed the country. Hundreds of protesters (some masked) clashed with police overnight Sept 6–7 in Portsmouth after a single dinghy carrying ~140 migrants made an unusually long crossing from Normandy and was brought ashore near Eastney. Demonstrator...
"As the 25th anniversary of September 11 approaches, Canadian public television has asked newsrooms not to speak of "terrorist attacks." In the camp of the Good, the day has now arrived when they criminalize patriotism, an obstacle to building the multicultural dream with eyes wide open. Welcome to Birmingham, Britain's second-largest city, for a f...
If diversity were strength, Spain would not have needed a national evening to say the word enough. Hundreds of thousands came out on Ceuta's day; Madrid's Cibeles packed on one count to 150,000, tens of thousands in Seville, Málaga, Zaragoza, Barcelona, Valencia, the islands, and more than 30,000 again in Ceuta itself, because an exclave had been u...
Andrew Garfield is back on his crusade, 13 years after first floating it, to make Peter Parker "into boys." And the pitch is pure Hollywood woke: Why can't we discover that Peter is exploring his sexuality? It's hardly even ground-breaking. Hardly ground-breaking. That's the tell. It's not a creative idea, it's a rebranding exercise wearing a cape....
Apocalypse has a preferred unit, and it is not the centimetre. When Al Gore stood in front of a drowning Florida and talked about twenty feet, he was not offering a tide gauge. He was offering a sermon. West Antarctica "goes," Greenland "goes," the map of the low countries becomes an aquarium, a hundred million people walk. Two decades later the So...
Universities still sell themselves as places where young people learn to think. A large interview study at two elite American campuses suggests many of them are learning something else: how to perform the approved opinions, then keep the real ones for later. Between 2023 and 2025, psychologists Forest Romm and Kevin Waldman conducted 1,452 confiden...
A recent Spectator Australia article (link below), asks, "Who owns Australia?" and answers, with characteristic Australian humour, that nobody really knows. Australia has sailed beyond a trillion dollars in Commonwealth debt, around 60 per cent of Australian Government Securities are reportedly held by non-residents, and we cannot conveniently prod...
A licence is a narrow thing. It is permission granted by a named authority, on published terms, subject to appeal. You know who issued it. You know what you must do to keep it. You know where to go when it is taken away. A driver's licence works this way. So does a liquor licence, a broadcasting licence, a mining lease. Each is an exception to a ba...
In mid-September 2025, a week after the anniversary, House Resolution 741 was introduced. It was a resolution, not an appropriations bill. It did not cut a cheque. It recited post-9/11 "hate" and "government targeting" of Muslims, Arabs, and related groups, asked Congress to "allocate resources" and "various forms of relief," wanted JTTFs, watchlis...
Greenland's icecap is melting away thanks to global warming, at least that is what we are told. According to the EU's European State of the Climate 2025 Report, the ice sheet lost 139 Gt last year. They say that is equivalent to about 1.5 times the amount of ice stored in all the glaciers in the European Alps, and raised global mean sea level by 0....
There is a question buried inside the reaction to the Lindsay Clancy case that almost nobody wants to ask, and it is this: if a significant portion of the female population of the US and West, has concluded that women should not be held responsible for killing their children long after those children are born, then what, exactly, is the principle t...
There are bad days, bad years and then there is Max Planck. Whenever life seems determined to put the boot in, it is worth remembering one of the greatest physicists who ever lived, because Planck managed to combine one of the most triumphant scientific careers in history with a private life that reads like the Book of Job rewritten by a part...
There are statistics that sound bad and statistics that sound like the opening scene of a dystopian film. The latest results from the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment belong rather uncomfortably in the second category. Across the developed world, 15-year-olds are performing in reading at approximately the level that would...
Kakistocracy is an old word for a familiar feeling. From the Greek kakistos, the worst, and kratos, rule: government by the least fit. George Clooney used it as a jab at one American administration and stopped there, as celebrities do. The term is larger than his target. Rule by the worst is not a Left specialty or a Right specialty. It is what hap...
There is a phrase that has become the secular equivalent of a prayer card, flashed whenever inconvenient questions arise: "I believe in science." It is worth pausing on how strange those four words actually are, because the moment you have to believe in something, you have left the method behind and entered the church. Belief is what you do in the ...
