Australia's universities have turned the international student trade into a core business model, and the wider society is paying the price. At 27 per cent of total enrolments, Australia hosts a higher share of foreign students than any other major developed economy. University leaders treat any attempt to rein this in as an act of vandalism. The ne...
The late English philosopher Sir Roger Scruton devoted much of his intellectual life to defending Western civilisation against those who regarded its inherited institutions, traditions and values as obstacles to progress. His conservatism was not simply a political programme concerned with taxation, economic management or the size of government. It...
The riots in France and subsequent return to peace show that the road to civil war is paved with restored order, leaving a more combustible environment for the next crisis, say David Betz and Michael Rainsborough. Our recent essays in the Daily Sceptic on the prospect of civil war in Western societies have examined the fragmentation of communities,...
Nick Freitas, the former Green Beret and Virginia legislator who hosts Making the Argument on BlazeTV, has argued that the unrest unfolding in France is not merely a local cost-of-living or education protest. It is the visible expression of a broader ideological project, one that pairs radical Left "decolonization" rhetoric with political Islam, an...
Modern medicine has achieved extraordinary things. Antibiotics, advanced surgery, diagnostic imaging, emergency medicine and numerous pharmaceutical treatments have saved countless lives. Yet alongside these achievements, something has gone seriously wrong with the organisation and delivery of healthcare. The medical profession, traditionally centr...
THOUSANDS of children have received injections while asleep for unrelated medical procedures as hospitals celebrate increased vaccine revenue. Children's hospitals across America are administering vaccines to children while they are unconscious under anesthesia for unrelated medical procedures. Credit to Jon Fleetwood for recently exposing this dis...
I condemn every government, health authority, regulator, international agency and public official that knowingly misled people about COVID-19. No country, institution or office should be exempt from scrutiny. I condemn the arrogance that confused public office with ownership of the truth. I condemn the cowardice that placed institutional reputation...
In early October 2026, emails released by the US House Judiciary Committee made public something that careful readers of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence had already suspected. The climate science chapter, intended as a neutral guide for federal judges, was shaped by a plaintiffs' lawyer actively suing fossil-fuel companies, even after t...
For decades the dominant scientific story of Aboriginal Australian origins has been a relatively straightforward one. Anatomically modern humans left Africa roughly 60–70 thousand years ago, moved through South Asia and Island Southeast Asia, and crossed into Sahul (the Pleistocene landmass of Australia and New Guinea) around 50 thousand years ago ...
Plastics have become one of the great environmental villains of the modern age. From supermarket shopping bags and drinking bottles to food packaging and synthetic clothing, we are constantly reminded that plastics are polluting the oceans, contaminating our food and even entering our bodies. Microplastics, in particular, have become a source of pu...
On 27 October 2026, a YouTube video from the Canadian Prepper channel titled "500 US Military Bases Preparing for 90 DAY GRID DOWN BLACKOUT" circulated widely, framing a Fox News Digital report as evidence that the U.S. military knows something catastrophic is coming for the civilian power grid. The underlying story is real, but the implication of ...
Australia's ageing population is routinely presented as an economic problem, a demographic time bomb that threatens to overwhelm government finances, undermine productivity and impose an intolerable burden upon younger generations. The familiar argument is that as the proportion of elderly Australians increases, there will be fewer workers supporti...
There is something extraordinary, almost beyond satire, about the idea that private corporations should be permitted to interfere deliberately with the amount of sunlight reaching the Earth. For thousands of years, humanity has depended upon the Sun for warmth, agriculture, ecological stability and ultimately life itself. Yet we have now reached a ...
European leaders are increasingly warning their populations to prepare for the possibility of war with Russia. Military expenditure is rising, civil defence planning is expanding, and political rhetoric is taking on a distinctly confrontational character. Yet Russia repeatedly denies any intention of attacking NATO countries. This contradiction rai...
Three hundred. That's how many students graduated with a humanities major from the University of Texas at Austin last year, out of roughly twelve thousand. Three hundred people, out of an entire graduating class, chose English, History, Philosophy, Art History, or any of the other disciplines that once formed the beating heart of the Western univer...
A recent article in The Spectator Australia, entitled "Voters Should Have the Right to Remain Silent," presents a case against compulsory voting and compulsory preferential voting. Its central argument is that democratic freedom must include the right to abstain from political participation altogether. Drawing an analogy with the legal right to sil...
Walk into any Australian clinic and describe a constellation of complaints: fatigue that sleep doesn't fix, headaches that migrate, brain fog that makes spreadsheets feel like algebra, a vague anxiety that wasn't there before, and you'll watch a doctor's eyebrows knit together. Bloods come back clean. Thyroid is fine. Iron is fine. Vitamin D is fin...
The possibility of nuclear war in the Middle East is one of those subjects that most people would prefer not to contemplate. The consequences are so appalling that the natural psychological response is to dismiss the prospect as remote, exaggerated or simply unthinkable. Yet the fact that a catastrophe is improbable does not mean that it is i...
October 2026 is rapidly drawing to a close, and once again the internet's prophets of catastrophe are warning that civilisation may be approaching its final hours. This month's particularly ominous contribution comes under the label "Blacktober," a name apparently intended to evoke a combination of cyberwarfare, collapsing electricity grids, financ...
The science-fiction nightmare of the Terminator, the humanoid machine capable of pursuing and killing human beings, has moved another step closer to technological reality. On October 21, 2026, Chinese robotics company Unitree released promotional footage of its H2-X "Kung Fu Legend Guardian," a humanoid robot demonstrating extraordinary physical ca...
