In Britain, Andy Burnham's political brand has long rested on the image of the competent, compassionate local leader who "gets things done" for ordinary people. As Mayor of Greater Manchester, he positioned himself as a pragmatic voice willing to tackle tough issues like homelessness. Yet the record tells a different story, one of good intentions u...

Few researchers have dissected the technical and regulatory realities of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines with the persistence and data-driven focus of Dr. Jessica Rose. Her core argument, that these products represent a form of gene therapy rather than conventional vaccines, strikes at the heart of how we classify, regulate, and communicate about novel ...

The US Supreme Court's ruling on birthright citizenship has sent shockwaves through the American conservative movement, and for good reason. What should have been a clear opportunity to restore constitutional sanity and rein in one of the most abused loopholes in American immigration law has instead become a painful reminder of how even supposed "o...

For years, conservatives have warned that much of what passes for modern "progressivism" is simply repackaged Marxism with better marketing. The response from the Left has usually been denial, deflection, or accusations of paranoia. But lately, the mask is slipping. Prominent Democrats and their allies are becoming more brazen about their ultimate ...

For several years now, people working in funeral homes and embalming have been reporting something strange. When preparing bodies, they've been pulling out unusual, white or pale, rubbery, stringy clumps from veins and arteries. These aren't the normal dark, jelly-like blood clots you'd expect after death. They're tougher, more elastic, and look al...

The Australian Labor Party was built by the calloused hands of shearers, miners, wharfies, and factory workers. It was the political arm of the union movement: rough, uncompromising, and singularly focused on the material conditions of working people. That party is dead. In its place stands a coalition of inner-city professionals, university-educat...

In a free society the public is supposed to be able to mock, criticize, and even insult the people who hold power over them. That right is not a courtesy extended by the state. It is a structural necessity: those who make the laws, spend the taxes, and deploy the police must remain exposed to the full force of public judgment. When governments inve...

There was a time when people could at least assume that, whatever happened beyond the front door, the bedroom remained a private sanctuary. Governments might know where you worked. Banks might know what you earned. Shops might know what you bought. But once the bedroom door closed, your conversations, your relationships and your most intimate momen...

Censorship is a confession of weakness. When institutions that control information, platforms, and reputation decide a viewpoint is too dangerous to be heard, they are rarely protecting the public from falsehood. More often they are protecting themselves from scrutiny. The multi-year effort to silence Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and bury his book The Rea...

One of the oldest lessons in political philosophy is that governments should be cautious when granting themselves new powers. The temptation is always to believe that such powers will be exercised only against one's political opponents. History repeatedly shows otherwise. Once a legal mechanism exists, it can eventually be used against almost anyon...

The next great power conflict in Asia may not begin with missiles over Taiwan or tanks rolling across the Himalayas. It may begin with the slow, deliberate tightening of a maritime noose around China's most vital artery. While the world watches the Taiwan Strait and the Line of Actual Control, India has been quietly constructing the means to threat...

Recent films about ancient Greece such as Troy, Helen of Troy, and 300, have used actors who are of Anglo-Saxon or Celtic ancestry (e.g. Brad Pitt, Gerard Butler). Recent films about ancient Rome, such as Gladiator and HBO's series Rome, have done the same (e.g. Russell Crowe). Were the directors right, from an historical point of view? Were the an...

Elon Musk has doubled down on his prediction that civil war will erupt in Britain in the coming decades as the country faces a migration-fuelled "reckoning". In recent months, the SpaceX founder has frequently warned of unrest erupting in Britain as a consequence of high levels of migration of people opposed to the West. Mr Musk has described the p...

When Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations in 1776, he revolutionised economic thinking by arguing that the prosperity of nations ultimately rests upon productive labour, capital formation, innovation and the efficient allocation of resources. Real wealth did not consist simply of gold, silver or financial claims. It consisted of a nation's ca...

One of the great ironies of our age may be that the generation raised entirely in the digital world is beginning to rebel against it. Reports suggest that increasing numbers of Generation Z are rediscovering physical media: vinyl records, CDs, DVDs, printed books and other tangible possessions, as an antidote to lives dominated by screens, algorith...

The US Twin Falls In-N-Out shooting on August 1, 2026, gave America yet another data point in a pattern the media and political class work tirelessly to ignore. A maniac with an AR-style rifle. A crowded restaurant. Two dead, seven wounded. And then, a good Samaritan and an off-duty state trooper drew their weapons and engaged. The police chief him...

Annie Jacobsen's warning (book link below), is not science fiction. It is a scenario that Pentagon planners have war-gamed for decades, and the variables are terrifyingly simple. An airborne pathogen with a 100% case fatality rate does not need a military to deploy it. The human lung becomes the delivery system. Breathing becomes the weapon. The BS...

John D. Rockefeller did not set out merely to refine oil. By the late nineteenth century he had built Standard Oil into a machine of such scale that the United States government eventually broke it apart. What followed was more consequential than the monopoly itself. Facing public hostility and the limits of pure commercial power, Rockefeller turne...

The twentieth century produced many technological marvels, but none cast a darker shadow over civilisation than the atomic bomb. When Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed in August 1945, humanity entered a new age. For the first time in history, it possessed the capacity not merely to wage war, but to extinguish civilisation itself. It is hardly s...

Smartphones have become extensions of the human mind. They contain our photographs, private conversations, financial records, political opinions, medical information, intimate relationships, browsing history, passwords, diaries, and increasingly our entire digital identities. If police can lawfully access and download the contents of a phone, they ...