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 ...

YouTube firebrand, Pearl Davis's position on Lindsay Clancy is older than the modern courtroom. In the Digital Social Hour debate (link below), Pearl Davis does not spend her capital on the Massachusetts jury instructions, the difference between postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis, or the 11–1 mistrial that ended the first trial on 4 Sep...

The continuing argument over Donald Trump's willingness to deploy federal forces inside the United States has revived one of the oldest and least understood questions in American constitutional government. Who decides when domestic disorder has become sufficiently serious to justify the use of military force? An answer can be found in a Supreme Cou...

"Ms Grover told The Australian she was "absolutely devastated" by the decision. "We now have confirmation that the High Court is captured by an ideology, as is the Federal Court, and so we need politicians to fix this. We have a government that won't, but we have rising ­opposition to this kind of ideology being imposed upon people. "Everybody is n...

American juries have started saying out loud what parents already knew: the feed is not a town square. It is a product engineered to keep a child from putting the phone down. Australian lawyers are now lining up to test versions of the same argument under Australian law, including the Australian Consumer Law. That is the forthcoming fight, not anot...

There is a wonderfully simple political idea at the centre of The Lord of the Rings, so simple that it can disappear beneath the orcs, elves, wizards and walking trees. The great struggle is not ultimately about which side should possess supreme power. It is about whether anybody should possess it at all. The One Ring is the most dangerous object i...

There are stories that initially look too perfectly designed for the culture wars to be true. The claim that Britain's domestic intelligence service is advertising an internship for which White British university students cannot apply is one of them. Surely MI5, an institution devoted to protecting the British state, has not actually erected a raci...

The Middle Ages were not simply an age of ignorance and mud. Medieval Europe produced universities, cathedrals, sophisticated philosophy and remarkable works of engineering. It also endured disease, poor sanitation, endemic violence and political fragmentation. Great intellectual and artistic achievements existed alongside conditions that a modern ...

"The modern era is said to value rationality and reason above all else. We are said to be free from superstition and fantasy. However, our world is not ruled by reason, but by a theology that worships racial equality. Those who challenge our state religion are punished, and the more effective the challenge, the harsher the punishment. It is therefo...

Professor Ian Brighthope begins his recent argument with an observation so obvious that the language of modern technology has somehow taught us to forget it: the cloud is not in the sky. There is something almost ingenious about the metaphor. We upload photographs "to the cloud," businesses migrate their operations "to the cloud," governments put r...

Jonathan Turley, in the article linked below, has drawn attention to something that deserves more serious consideration than it has received: the increasingly explicit revolutionary language being used by parts of the American socialist Left. There is no evidence of a coordinated plan for armed insurrection, and it would be absurd to pretend otherw...

The American survival literature has a familiar geography. When the grid fails, supply chains break and social order begins to fray, the advice is to head for the mountains, the forests, the farming country or some lightly populated state blessed with rivers, rainfall and enough good soil to feed the people who remain. The recent ZeroHedge exercise...

"Non-German suspects account for nearly half of all violent crime in the German state of Bavaria, with the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party now calling for remigration for all criminal migrant suspects. The Interior Ministry data was released in response to a request from AfD state parliament member Martin Böhm. It revealed that...