A pill that helps you on its own can trip you when it joins the rest of the cabinet. That is not mysticism. It is chemistry with a marketing department. TrialSite's brief on supplements (link below), that look helpful alone and unhelpful in combination is a reminder older than the supplement craze. Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC) called it the mean: virt...
Thomas Sowell has spent much of his long career taking complicated political questions and reducing them to uncomfortable first principles. In a recent interview clip now circulating widely, he does it again, this time in connection with the murder of Charlie Kirk and the increasingly casual use of the word "fascist." Sowell's argument is character...
Modern life has produced a peculiar condition in which being constantly rushed is regarded almost as evidence of importance. There is always another email to answer, another appointment to reach, another task that should have been completed yesterday. Even when nothing genuinely urgent is happening, many people feel uncomfortable slowing down. The ...
Steven Pinker told readers there has never been a better time to be alive: violence down over the long run, life longer, torture out of fashion, the better angels winning on points. John Mac Ghlionn, in The Blaze, notes that this is especially true if you are on the receiving end of Western Europe's taxpayer concierge. Village hotels in Ireland tha...
If diversity is the greatest strength, that applies too to rape. Britain will dedicate courtrooms to rape because the queue is a disgrace. Pretending the queue has no connection to who was let in is the other disgrace. Every Crown Court in England and Wales is to set aside a room for rape and serious sexual offences: private doors for complai...
A former fund manager lined up 366 Western jurisdictions, fed them through an index of capture, blowouts and institutional stress, and Victoria came first. Not first as in Singapore. First as in the wooden spoon with a ribbon on it. Score: 79.8. Illinois was second. Sicily was third. That is the company you keep when the ballon goes up. Macrobusine...
Forty-three percent of Americans now say they have a positive view of socialism. Among Democrats the figure is 65 percent. Jonathan Turley calls it a fashion cycle: wait long enough and a generation with no memory of empty shelves will try the jacket on again. The slogan this time is warmer. Collectivism with central heating. Imagine the end of lan...
Leading US Black intellectual, Thomas Sowell, has one of those sayings that initially sounds almost unbearably pessimistic: "There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs." Surely there are solutions to some things. Antibiotics solve infections. Engineers solve structural problems. A mechanic solves the problem of a broken alternator. Sowell is...
In late 2025, Kerala Police in India dismantled a multi-state fake degree racket, arresting 11 suspects and seizing over 100,000 counterfeit certificates linked to around 22 universities or institutions. Authorities estimated that up to 1 million fraudulent degrees could be in circulation. The forged documents primarily targeted fields like medicin...
There is an old anti-war saying, in various forms: suppose they gave a war and nobody came? Britain may be about to conduct a small and rather interesting experiment in that proposition. The Liberal Democrats have urged Prime Minister Andy Burnham to establish a national register of civilians willing to help if Britain comes under attack or faces a...
Canada ran the same experiment Australia is still running, then cut. Labor's refusal is why the party is becoming the issue. Canada did what Australian commentary treats as unthinkable. After a post-pandemic surge that took net overseas migration to 1.23 million in the year to March 2024, Ottawa capped permanent intake, slashed students and tempora...
James Simpson's Red-Green Axis 3.0 and Robert Spencer's discussion of it rest on a political question that will not go away. How does a revolutionary Left that champions secularism, sexual liberation and radical social experimentation repeatedly find itself marching alongside movements whose religious and social doctrines may reject much of that pr...
Something curious is happening in Britain. War is moving from the specialist vocabulary of generals and defence planners into ordinary public conversation, and the British people are increasingly being invited to imagine themselves not merely watching another foreign conflict on television but participating in one. The BBC has now joined that conve...
The temperature data that is used to sell the need for "net zero CO2" and all the accompanying climate change hysteria is based on a mass deception, a manipulation of temperature data, a misrepresentation of historical trajectory of natural weather phenomenon. Climate scientists are increasingly waking up to this evil climate change agenda and expo...
There are diplomatic speeches, and then there are Javier Milei speeches. The Argentine president arrived at the United Nations General Assembly and proceeded to tell the organisation hosting him that it had become a "useless organization" serving a caste of "fatally arrogant parasites" masquerading as well-intentioned bureaucrats. One suspects this...
A boat of about sixty people left the Normandy coast, spent more than thirty-three hours in what the French coastguard called precarious conditions, and refused repeated offers of help from a French vessel that was already there. The French said those aboard were "determined to take all risks to reach the United Kingdom." British boats later took f...
W. Galt's piece in American Thinker does not waste time on robes and punch. A cult, he writes, is a mental structure: doctrine that cannot be doubted, an us-and-them world, narrative over fact, leaders who do not fall, and denial that protects the group when reality arrives. Stack that list against the activist and institutional Left, not every per...
J.B. Shurk's line in American Thinker (link below), is that Europeans should overthrow their ruling class rather than be volunteered for a war with Russia while the home front is treated as optional. The timing is the usual one: security panics before elections, parties branded as Moscow's cut-outs, commissions talking hybrid war, ministers talking...
Are there data showing whether routine childhood vaccines pose less risk than the diseases they target? A review of some childhood vaccines suggests those data don't exist. What the available data do show is this: The risk of serious adverse events caused by vaccines often outweighs the risk of contracting the disease if not vaccinated. Recent meas...
George Monbiot has seen some terrible driving. Street racers in the West Midlands doing 90 in a 30. Convoys in mid-Wales that woke his infant daughter. Lifted pickups in Devon that "roll coal" at cyclists. Soft sentences. Police who want a number plate and a form. SUVs with bonnets that hide children. None of that requires a new branch of gender st...
