The reparations industry does not begin with a ledger of particular crimes. It begins with a story about the world. The story says the modern condition, long life, surplus food, electricity, antibiotics, courts that outlast a chieftain, is the natural state of humanity, and that the West grew rich only by taking that state away from everyone else. ...

England and Wales abolished the old blasphemy offences in 2008. The statute book looked adult for a while. Then the police, the Crown Prosecution Service and a string of magistrates rebuilt the offence without the embarrassing name. They used public-order law, "grossly offensive" communications, and religious aggravation. The sacred text that now d...

It's one of the odder features of Western life: an economic system built on private ownership and market competition spends enormous sums cultivating, credentialing, and materially supporting the very people who dedicate their careers to arguing it should be dismantled. Elite universities with billion-dollar endowments, funded by donors who made th...

There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from holding unpopular views in rooms that assume everyone agrees with them. If you are a conservative writer, academic, or commentator working in media, publishing, or higher education, you already know this exhaustion. None of this makes you special, and none of it excuses self-pity. But it is r...

 Patricia Karvelas's ABC analysis (link below), admits the thing the majors want to shrink: One Nation is no longer a Coalition headache. It can take Labor's furniture. Secret Harbour was not a quirky protest. It was a once-safe Labor seat in Perth's south, held in that part of the map since 1989, and it fell to gym owner Luke Herdegen. Hanson...

Elon Musk has built a small cottage industry out of two claims that refuse to sit in the same room together. The first is that a future built on Optimus units and humanoid labour will make work optional, goods nearly free, and scarcity itself obsolete. The second, delivered in the same breath or the same week, is that free bread is what killed Rome...

The capture of the university system by the Left across the West, was not a mood that drifted in with the weather. It was a project with a theory, a timetable measured in careers rather than news cycles, and a target that made perfect sense once you stopped thinking of the campus as a library with dorms. Control the places that mint the professiona...

 It was 53 years ago that Jean Raspail wrote The Camp of the Saints in an attempt to wake up the French nation to the future challenge they would face. The French response was to dismiss Raspail's effort as a dystopian novel and do nothing. Today five decades later Marine Le Pen, leader of France's only French nationalist party, is the most po...

There is a peculiar madness that grips a civilisation when it can no longer distinguish between a home and a hotel, between a family table and an open buffet, between a nation and a refugee camp. This is precisely where the West finds itself in the third decade of the twenty-first century, and Senator Schmitt's blunt formulation cuts through decade...

Breaking news from the cultural emergency room: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is racist. Well, if old Huck is a racist, I am a monkey's uncle! Mark Twain's troublesome little boy has been floating down the Mississippi for nearly a century and a half, and somehow the guardians of modern sensitivity have finally caught up with him. One of Americ...

There is something irresistible about believing that one happens to be alive at the turning point of history. Ordinary generations merely live and die; fortunate generations witness the transformation of civilisation. Nathan Gardels, introducing the latest issue of Noema, raises precisely this possibility. Artificial intelligence, synthetic biology...

John Leake's August 29, 2026 essay on The Focal Points treats the war in Ukraine not as a distant European tragedy but as an American-run proxy campaign that has already failed on its own terms and is now climbing a more dangerous ladder. The piece is partisan and apocalyptic in tone, yet the structure of its argument is clear: NATO's 2008 promise ...

"The sister of a young British mother butchered by a small-boat arrival has torn into the Labour government for going to court to keep the public from seeing who is committing what crime in this country. Alex Whyte told GB News she feels "sick, disgusted and completely let down." Anger, she said, "doesn't even cover what I feel, and it never will."...

A disturbing question is emerging from Britain's prisons. Reports suggest that some non-Muslim prisoners are being pressured into converting to Islam, not necessarily because they have undergone a spiritual revelation, but because religious identity has become entangled with protection, power and gang organisation inside parts of the prison system....

Kevin Finn's field guide (link below), sorts modern Leftists into four types that "often overlap": the blind, who will not look; the evil, who look and still choose harm; the crazy, who believe what cannot be true; and the stupid, who cannot follow a cause to its effect. The concession of overlap is the most honest sentence in the piece. It is also...

Theodore Dalrymple's piece in The American Conservative begins with a classroom joke that is no longer allowed to be a joke. Sixty years ago an English teacher said his job was to teach discrimination: between the good and the bad, the beautiful and the meretricious. That older meaning has been driven out of polite institutions almost as thoroughly...

The most disturbing thing about the latest American pressure on Britain over the Falkland Islands is not that Donald Trump is about to hand them to Argentina. He cannot. The Falklands are under British administration, their inhabitants overwhelmingly wish to remain British, and no American president possesses a magic pen capable of transferring sov...

Australia's medicines regulator is considering Moderna's mFLUSIVA, a new mRNA vaccine for seasonal influenza. Its pivotal trial contained no inert placebo, severe reactions preventing normal daily activity were far more common than with the conventional shot, and America's regulator has demanded continuing surveillance of deaths and serious neurolo...

Professor David Flint has put his finger on one of the more cynical features of Australian politics after the Bondi Beach massacre. Faced with an antisemitic terrorist atrocity, the Albanese government rapidly discovered that one of the people requiring political attention was the Australian licensed gun owner. It was an extraordinary displacement ...

The Daily Mail story is an American nightmare with Australian bones. Jon Wellinghoff, who once ran the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, walked the country through a simple piece of arithmetic after gunmen shot up a San Jose substation. Model the three big American grids: East, West, Texas, and take out nine of the right substations, three clus...