The European Commission has refused to register the "Save Europe Act", a European Citizens' Initiative calling for a moratorium on new immigration from non-Western countries and a fundamental reform of the EU's migration and asylum system. The initiative was launched by Austrian activist Martin Sellner and Dutch commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek. It...

The European Commission's refusal to register the "Save Europe Act" European Citizens' Initiative was as predictable as sunrise. An initiative seeking a moratorium on new immigration from non-Western countries, coupled with explicit concern for the ethnic and cultural continuity of Europe's native populations, was always going to collide with the i...

Cardiorespiratory fitness is one of the more reliable markers we have for long-term brain health. People who can move efficiently, those with higher aerobic capacity measured in metabolic equivalents, tend to show lower rates of dementia, depression, and certain other psychiatric outcomes over decades of follow-up. Large observational studies, some...

For decades the public has been told that the air it breathes is quietly killing people by the tens or hundreds of thousands each year. Fine particulate matter, especially PM2.5, is presented as a silent assassin responsible for heart attacks, lung disease, and shortened lives even at the low concentrations found in modern cities. The claim underwr...

Australia's new national emergency warning system, AusAlert, is founded on an entirely sensible principle. In an age of increasingly destructive bushfires, floods, cyclones and even potential terrorist incidents, governments need the ability to warn citizens quickly. The tragic lessons of the Black Summer bushfires demonstrated that delayed or miss...

The radical proposal to shut down prisons by the Left, such as the US Democrat radicals, is not primarily a technical argument about sentencing guidelines or rehabilitation programs. At its core it is a rejection of the idea that a free society requires a functioning system of coercion against those who prey on others. When activists and theorists ...

The impulse to ban social media for teenagers is understandable. The platforms are engineered for continuous engagement, they amplify social comparison and status anxiety, and a growing body of evidence links heavy use, especially among adolescent girls, to rising rates of anxiety, depression, and distorted self-image. Restricting access until sixt...

First, the facts. Rushy Lagoon is real, despite the name. It is Tasmania's largest single farm, roughly 21,745 hectares of northern Tasmanian country that for generations ran beef, dairy and sheep. It has irrigation infrastructure and a history of substantial milk and livestock production. In July 2026 the Federal Treasurer approved its sale, for m...

Something remarkable is happening here in Victoria. The party that the political class spent decades treating as a punchline is now being spoken of, in panicked tones inside Labor's own ranks, as a potential government-in-waiting. One Nation on 27 per cent. Up to 34 seats on a good day. The possibility that Pauline Hanson's party could become the l...

 The Economist recently posed an intriguing question: should we be afraid of Elon Musk? At first glance the answer seems obvious. Musk is not a dictator. He commands no army. He was elected by no nation. He is an entrepreneur who builds electric cars, rockets, satellites, artificial intelligence and brain-computer interfaces. So why has he bec...

There is a particular kind of institutional capture that does not announce itself with crude slogans. It arrives wearing the white coat of science, speaking the language of consensus, and carrying the authority of reports that judges are invited to treat as settled fact. That is the climate litigation complex: a self-reinforcing network of activist...

Donald Trump's latest financial disclosures have attracted enormous attention, with reports suggesting that he earned at least US$2.2 billion during his first year back in the White House through a combination of property, licensing, investments and newer ventures such as cryptocurrency. If those figures are substantially correct, they represent a ...

 Roger Scruton's conservatism begins from a simple observation about human beings: we are not disembodied wills or utility-maximising atoms, but creatures formed by place, memory, inheritance, and the dense web of obligations that arise unbidden. We belong before we choose. The good society is not a design imposed by rational planners but an i...

Victor Davis Hanson recently asked a blunt question of the Democratic Socialists of America and their fellow travellers: do they rank the United States as morally worse than Mao Zedong's body count of roughly seventy million? The Chinese Communist Party remains in unbroken power from Mao to Xi. Its current surveillance state, re-education camps, an...

When euthanasia was first promoted to Western societies, its advocates promised strict limits, compassionate intentions, and robust safeguards. We were assured that only a tiny number of terminally ill patients, enduring unbearable suffering and making fully informed voluntary decisions, would ever qualify. Critics who warned of a slippery slope we...

A recent YouGov poll for a lobbying firm has delivered a result that should surprise no one who has paid attention to the hard Left for the past sixty years. Among supporters of Britain's Green Party, the United States and Israel rank as greater threats to the United Kingdom's national interests than China. Six in ten Green voters named America; ro...

 "The British police have gone from being highly respected to being an almost universal object of contempt, despised by the habitual criminal and the most scrupulously law-abiding person alike. They are menacing to the innocent and impotent against the guilty; and, as more people with academic qualifications have entered the force, so it has l...

In the final weeks of the Biden administration, senior advisors drafted a White House memo that laid out a clear strategy: expand Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to cover more than three million noncitizens. The document, later obtained by Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) and reported by Fox News, was not a routine policy discussion. It was a calculated ...

Socialist millionaire, then-Beatle, John Lennon, said it plainly in a June 1968 interview: the people running things are not simply cynical or corrupt. They are madmen pursuing mad ends. He added that he had sensed it since adolescence, and that expressing the observation risked being labelled insane himself. That remains one of the clearer things ...

 This line, frequently attributed to Henry Kissinger, has circulated for decades in discussions of power, resources, and geopolitics. Whether he actually said the precise words remains disputed: his office has denied it, though contemporary reporting from the 1970s attributed similar views to him through aides. The exact provenance matters les...