There is a quiet ache many feel when watching old films, not just for the craftsmanship or storytelling, but for the vanished world they depicted. The confident, unapologetic West of early-20th century cinema: men who were decisive, women who were feminine, communities rooted in shared values, and stories that celebrated courage, duty, family, and ...

Walk into almost any gym in the Western world and one assumption goes unquestioned. Every exercise is organised into sets. Three sets of ten. Four sets of eight. Five sets of five. Rest. Repeat. It is so universal that few people stop to ask an obvious question: who decided that this was the natural way for human beings to exercise? At first glance...

Larry Sanger, who co-founded Wikipedia with Jimmy Wales in 2001, has now been indefinitely banned from editing the site he helped create. The trigger? His public efforts to push for greater "intellectual diversity" and balance on the world's largest encyclopedia. Sanger's ousting is more than an internal Wikipedia spat. It is a meta-political event...

President Trump's recent Executive Order on quantum innovation (and its companion on post-quantum cryptography) has been framed as a necessary push for American competitiveness against China, scientific breakthroughs, and national security. On the surface, it's about building powerful quantum computers, securing data against future threats, and str...

New Zealand whistleblower Barry Young, who faces trial for leaking COVID-19 vaccine data, told The Defender that public trust can be restored only through transparency and accountability. He said the country's COVID-19 inquiry "danced around the issues," failing to seriously examine vaccine safety concerns or mandates. "The worst possible lesson fr...

Recent events in the Strait of Hormuz have once again reminded us how fragile "peace" in the Middle East can be. Iran struck a commercial vessel (the Ever Lovely) with a drone, prompting US retaliatory strikes on Iranian targets. President Trump labelled the Iranian action a "foolish violation" of the fragile ceasefire. While a full-blown wider war...

The rock band the Who nailed it back in 1971: "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss." Decades later, that lyric feels painfully relevant to Australian politics as the Liberal Party tries to reposition itself against Pauline Hanson's One Nation. Angus Taylor's recent policy push is being sold as a bold conservative reset, but history suggests cau...

Australians were not raised to whisper in our own country. We were not raised to bow our heads before bureaucrats, activist mobs, media bosses, HR departments and nervous corporate cowards who start shaking the moment a few professional outrage merchants make noise online. Look around, though. That is the country being built around us. Colder. Smal...

Every age believes its problems are unique. We imagine that political division, economic uncertainty, anxiety about the future, and the relentless pursuit of wealth are peculiar to our own times. Yet two thousand years ago the Roman philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC - 65 AD) confronted remarkably similar concerns. Living amidst the corruption...

Britain is once again searching for salvation in a new face at the top. Keir Starmer's tenure as Prime Minister has ended far sooner than many expected, with Andy Burnham emerging as the strong favourite to replace him. Yet for all the talk of fresh hope and "Manchesterism," the harsh reality is that Burnham is likely to deliver more of the same, a...

Europe is waking up. The Save Europe Act, the first patriotic European Citizens' Initiative, is a bold attempt to force Brussels to confront the reality of mass migration, demographic replacement, and the erosion of national identity. With hundreds of thousands of signatures already gathered and prominent supporters from Viktor Orbán to Eva Vlaardi...

Australia is on a dangerous path. While Canada has begun the painful but necessary process of slashing migration intake to restore sanity to housing, infrastructure, and wages, our own leaders remain locked in the same failed high-migration model that is driving cost-of-living pain, urban congestion, and cultural strain. The contrast is instructive...

Karl Stefanovic sat down with Tommy Robinson and did the thing journalists used to do without needing permission from a woke approval committee. He asked questions. He let Robinson answer. He pushed him at times on his past tactics, the street protests, the clashes that followed some of those events, and whether all of that had hurt the message he ...

Multiculturalism was sold to Australians as a harmless celebration of food, festivals, and tolerance. In practice, it has become something far more sinister: a system of institutionalised minority power that systematically elevates organised ethnic and religious lobbies above the interests of the unorganised majority. As demographic change accelera...

A troubling pattern is emerging across the West: elements of the political Left are no longer content with democratic reform or even democratic socialism. They are morphing into something darker: radical anti-capitalist movements that flirt with, justify, or openly support violence and revolutionary disruption. What was once fringe extremism is gai...

Academia, once the proud citadel of Western civilisation's intellectual life, where rigorous inquiry, open debate, and the disinterested pursuit of truth reigned supreme, has not merely declined, it has fallen. What we witness today is not a temporary dip in standards or a passing fad of campus radicalism, but a profound collapse of the very purpos...

 I took my granddaughter into Supergirl hoping for some fun, colourful superhero escapism, the kind of light-hearted spectacle the genre used to deliver before it got weighed down by woke lectures. What I got instead was a bloated, preachy, and often incoherent mess that feels less like a movie and more like a corporate diversity checklist wit...

 When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in a September 17, 2020 interview, later removed by YouTube for "medical misinformation," that pharmaceutical companies make roughly $60 billion a year on vaccines but $500 billion selling remedies for the injuries they cause, he framed it as a perverse but highly profitable business plan: "You make people sick...

Every time tensions flare in the Strait of Hormuz, politicians, financial markets and military planners collectively hold their breath. A narrow stretch of water only a few dozen kilometres wide has become one of the world's greatest strategic choke points. Should shipping be disrupted, oil prices surge, inflation rises, economies tremble and gover...

Just when many of us had concluded that philosophy had finally breathed its last, the old girl has unexpectedly kicked her legs, dragged herself out of the muddy creek and staggered back into view. It is an image that resonates with me because I grew up on a farm where cattle occasionally slipped into deep muddy sections of a river. Once a heavy co...