A recent analysis by A Midwestern Doctor (link below), examines Pfizer's pivotal trial records (released via court order), Argentine regulatory documents, and the broader history of the mRNA technology. It argues that the "safe and effective" framing rested on trial conduct that included missing participants, reclassified adverse events, unequal te...

Low Earth orbit is filling with high-speed trash, and the systems that keep modern life running are sitting in the middle of it. The Spectator piece by Max Horder (linked below), frames the issue clearly. There are on the order of 130 million pieces of debris in orbit, many the size of a coin or smaller, with a combined mass around 13,000 metric to...

The riots that began as student unrest in France have crossed into Belgium, and the capital of the European Union now looks the part, as it burns into woke history. On 9 October 2026, tens of thousands marched in Brussels against austerity measures and education cuts planned by Prime Minister Bart De Wever's government. The main trade-union process...

A disturbing case in Melbourne has raised serious questions about the balance between individual rights and public protection in Australia's criminal justice system. Mohamed Musse Bakit, a 65-year-old Somali-born Australian citizen, has reportedly been granted bail despite facing serious terrorism-related charges, including alleged membership of Is...

When protesters are busy burning down civilised order, playing a theme song often helps the violence flow along. Reports have been made that the French protesters now have their anthem: "A rap song referencing jihadists involved in deadly attacks in France has appeared in videos filmed during student protests at a French high school and at a church...

One of the strangest paradoxes of modern construction is that countries surrounded by enormous deserts sometimes have to import sand for their building projects. The Arabian Peninsula contains vast quantities of sand, yet rapidly developing cities such as Dubai have relied upon specialised construction materials brought from elsewhere. How can a co...

       The mobilization of political hatred accelerates "Many men rape; many men giggle encouragingly, or shrug indifferently, when their friends rape. Many men rape, and few seem to think that it's a very big deal. If anything, cases like the alleged incident at Chi Phi – and many others – show that rape can be a bonding activi...

 The possibility of escalating attacks on Saudi Arabian oil infrastructure raises one of the most serious economic threats facing the world. Saudi Arabia is not simply another oil-producing country. It is one of the central pillars of the international petroleum system, possessing enormous reserves, substantial production capacity and the abil...

(Allusion to the John Lennon song of course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3_0GqPvr4U ) Pete Hegseth is the first US Secretary of Defense/War in a generation who treats the job as warfighting rather than stakeholder management. That is the whole of it. Every complaint against him reduces to the fact that he refuses to perform the bureaucratic li...

Mental health is increasingly recognized as a cornerstone of overall population health, yet its connection to our modern food environments has historically remained underexplored. Recent estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO) reveal the staggering scale of the global mental health crisis: in 2023, an estimated 1.2 billion people were li...

Science has an uncomfortable habit of discovering that what it thought it understood was merely a small fraction of a much larger reality. This is particularly evident in two seemingly unrelated fields: nutritional science and astrophysics. Both have developed the concept of "dark matter" to describe important aspects of the world that remain outsi...

Donald Trump may be approaching the most dangerous political confrontation of his extraordinary career. With the American midterm elections scheduled for November 3, 2026, the Republican Party faces the possibility of losing control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate. Should that happen, the remaining two years of Trump's presidenc...

Throughout human history, authoritarian governments have attempted to control what people say, write, publish and believe. Political dissenters have been imprisoned, religious minorities persecuted, books prohibited and private conversations monitored by the agents of the state. Yet even the most ruthless dictatorships have confronted one fundament...

 Mark Bullen spent eleven years as a police officer with Hertfordshire Constabulary. He was the force's only fluent Russian speaker, wrote its training material on Russian organised crime and prison tattoos (later published as Thief in Law), took part in an International Police Association exchange in St Petersburg in 2010, and organised profe...

We are constantly told that exercise is good for us, and there is overwhelming scientific evidence that this is true. Regular physical activity reduces the risk of heart disease, diabetes, obesity and premature death. But does it follow that the more exercise we undertake, the healthier we become? Not necessarily. Research suggests that there may b...

 Sweden spent two decades becoming the world's poster child for a cashless future. Coin slots disappeared from parking meters and newspaper boxes. Card readers and the bank-backed mobile app Swish became the default even for a single coffee. Cash in circulation as a share of GDP fell to among the lowest levels anywhere. Convenience and moderni...

The Wall Street Journal's report on the quiet donor class bankrolling the Democratic Party's Leftward lurch is a useful reminder that the people who spent a decade denouncing "dark money," "oligarchs," and "foreign influence" have simply built their own version. According to the piece and related filings, a cohort of previously obscure donors, many...

 Harry Houdini died on Halloween, 31 October 1926, which was the sort of theatrical ending a publicity agent might have invented had the calendar not supplied it. He was just 52 years old. The name on his birth record was Erik Weisz, born in Budapest on 24 March 1874, the son of a Jewish rabbi. The name that became famous throughout the world ...

The recent surge in support for One Nation has prompted familiar diagnoses: a populist backlash against elite-driven multiculturalism, mass migration, and the technocratic consensus that treated cultural difference as an unqualified good. A more precise account, however, locates the roots of the project not solely in the cosmopolitan preferences of...

Hollywood actors are generally presented to the public as creatures of extraordinary privilege, inhabiting a world of wealth, fame, glamorous relationships and seemingly unlimited opportunity. We see the finished product, the international celebrity whose face appears on cinema screens across the world, but rarely appreciate the personal struggles ...