The Faustian spirit isn't just a poetic flourish, it's the actual engine of Western civilisation, and Mars colonisation is its most literal expression yet. Oswald Spengler's The Decline of the West (1918) identified the Ur-symbol of Western culture as infinite space. Not the bounded, finite cosmos of the Greeks; the Classical mind saw the world as ...
Nigel Farage built much of his appeal on defiance of the establishment consensus, including its expanding speech codes and the readiness of police to treat online opinions as potential crimes. That record is now showing cracks. A recent examination of statements and personnel decisions around Reform UK suggests the party is already compromising on ...
For years in the UK the loudest advocates of open or near-open borders treated migration as a moral abstraction. Illegal Channel crossings were framed as an inevitable force of nature, or as a test of national virtue. The human costs: pressure on housing, schools, hospitals, wages in low-skill sectors, and the cultural cohesion of working-cla...
The central issue that health authorities spent years trying to minimise is the nature of the spike protein itself. The COVID vaccines were designed to instruct the body to produce this protein in large quantities. It was presented as an inert antigen that would trigger immunity and then disappear. Accumulating evidence has shown that the spi...
The recent observation that AI agents "lie, cheat, and steal" arrives late. The behaviour has been visible to sceptics for some time. What has changed is scale and cost: enough people are now encountering it that mainstream coverage can no longer treat the failures as isolated bugs. These are not failures of manners. They are the predictable result...
Gabriël Moens, writing in The Spectator Australia, (link below), presents a sombre picture of the de-Christianisation of Australia and the wider Western world. Churches are closing, attendance has declined, traditional Christian moral teaching has lost much of its authority, and political and cultural institutions increasingly operate according to ...
Walter Russell Mead, writing in the Wall Street Journal, has just called mass immigration a "global powder keg." The modern era of extraordinary migration levels is beginning to ebb, he argues, and governments that fail to act thoughtfully now risk backlash, including the kind of street violence already visible in places like Thetford, England, whe...
The Reserve Bank of Australia's latest Statement on Monetary Policy paints a grim picture. Jobs growth, house prices, economic growth and productivity have all been downgraded. Inflation remains sticky and is not expected to return sustainably to the middle of the 2–3 per cent target band until early 2028. The cash rate stays at 4.35 per cent. Unem...
The Beats were not merely rebels against mid-century conformity. They were, in many cases, visibly unwell. Kerouac drank himself into an early grave. Ginsberg's mother was institutionalised and he himself spent time in psychiatric care. Burroughs shot his wife and spent decades chasing heroin. Corso, Huncke, Cowen, Kaufman; the list of breakdowns, ...
High-trust societies, like those of the West are historically rare. They rest on a simple, fragile equilibrium: large numbers of people repeatedly choosing not to defect in an endless series of prisoner's dilemmas. You keep your word. I keep mine. You do not take what is not yours. I do not summon the state to take what is yours. The resulting surp...
In January 2021, as the first COVID-19 vaccines rolled out and pregnant women were still largely excluded from the initial clinical trials, a private text exchange among three of the highest-ranking U.S. public-health officials captured a moment of theoretical caution. Vivek Murthy (then on the Biden transition team, later Surgeon General) asked An...
He who pays the piper calls the tune. It is one of those ancient truths that survives every attempt by modern governments to rebrand it as "industry support," "media diversity," or "public-interest journalism." The Albanese government has just given the oldest truth in the book a shiny new $67.6 million coat of paint and called it the Journalism As...
The growing appeal of democratic socialism in the United States and the West, should not simply be dismissed as another outbreak of youthful ideological fashion. Something deeper is happening. Michael Snyder draws attention to the increasing popularity of socialism among younger Americans and connects it to widespread dissatisfaction with the exist...
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) has announced she is freezing her eggs. At thirty-six, the congresswoman is putting her reproductive future on ice so she can keep her options open for higher office. The decision is being framed as empowerment, normalisation, and a brave conversation about the impossible balancing act faced by ambitious women. Fair e...
The Substack essay by COVID critic John Fleetwood, critiques the circular logic used to establish a "natural" origin for SARS-CoV-2, identifying a critical flaw in the scientific methodology employed by establishment researchers. This "evidentiary loop" is not an isolated error in one study; it is a systemic feature of a corrupted research apparatu...
There is something almost brutally clarifying about the latest controversy in Australian football. Freya Golding, a transgender woman who reportedly stands around 6 feet 2 inches and weighs more than 90 kilograms, has been cleared to continue playing in the Adelaide Footy League women's competition despite objections from three clubs that raised co...
Down in the octopus's garden, beneath the waves, evolution has been conducting experiments that would never have received ethics approval at a modern university. Take an animal, give it eight arms, remove the bones, cover the arms in suckers that can both touch and chemically sense the world, distribute much of the nervous system throughout those a...
There are moments in history when the awesome majesty of the American presidency is revealed in all its splendour. Washington crossing the Delaware. Lincoln at Gettysburg. Kennedy staring down the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Reagan demanding that Gorbachev tear down the Berlin Wall. And now we have Donald Trump disappearing inside...
Australia once sold itself to the world as a destination for serious study and eventual contribution. Over the past three decades that offer has been inverted. International education has become a high-volume migration pipeline dressed in the language of export earnings, and the country has absorbed the downstream costs while universities and migra...
Labor has conceded the obvious: the post-border-reopening surge in net overseas migration created a mess. Housing shortages worsened, rents rose sharply in the major cities, infrastructure lagged, and public services felt the strain. The government responded with tighter student-visa settings, higher application fees, integrity measures against non...
