Fresh off the presses from China's state-run Global Times: Starting November 1, 2025, 25 provinces will roll out "maternity allowances," paying women directly to have kids. That's right, after decades of fining families for extra babies under the One Child Policy, Beijing's flipping the script to bribes. "Here, have $500 a year per rugrat until the...

Ah, Melbourne's CBD: Home to artisanal coffee, world-class street art, and now, the annual Leftist Temper Tantrum Jamboree. On Sunday, what started as a peaceful "March for Australia" rally, y'know, those pesky conservatives like me politely asking for saner immigration policies, devolved into a full-blown playground brawl. But fear not, dear reade...

Here I tear into the academic ivory tower with the glee of a kid smashing a piñata. The October 2025 piece by Olivia Guest and Iris van Rooij (link below) nails a grim truth: AI, particularly large language models (LLMs), is hollowing out higher education. Students are churning out year-long essay assignments in minutes while sunbaking on beaches, ...

AI companies are grappling with the dual-use potential of their tech, as noted by a recent Wired article (see link below) The piece, published on October 22, 2025, dives into Anthropic's collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to build a "nuclear classifier" for their chatbot, Claud...

The Chinese property sector, once the turbocharged engine of the world's second-largest economy, is in the throes of a protracted crisis that's now entering its sixth year. As of October 2025, recent data paints a grim picture: Floor space sold dropped 10.5% year-on-year in September, new home starts fell 14.4%, and real estate investment plummeted...

Disclaimer: This article discusses allegations raised in a French criminal trial that is currently ongoing. Nothing below asserts guilt or definitive motive. All claims are drawn from publicly available trial reporting, notably from French and English-language media. Readers should treat these elements as unproven until the court reaches a verdict....

Here is a story that's straight out of a dystopian thriller: Scientists in the U.S. and South Korea have engineered a "chimeric" bird flu virus that's 100% fatal in mammals. Yes, you read that right, not just deadly, but universally lethal in the animal models they tested. This isn't some underground bioweapon lab conspiracy (though it sure feels l...

The Sydney Morning Herald article by Angus Delaney, "This is not the record we want to be breaking: Anti-vax ideology helping to fuel flu case surge: GPs" (20 October 2025), reads like a propaganda leaflet for the pharmaceutical industry rather than responsible journalism. It uncritically parrots the claims of establishment GPs and the Royal Austra...

Out in the vast expanse of our solar system, few events capture the public's imagination like the arrival of an interstellar visitor, objects hurtling from beyond our cosmic neighborhood, carrying secrets from distant stars. Enter 3I/ATLAS, discovered in July 2025 by NASA's Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope in Chile. A...

In a riveting episode of Tucker Carlson's podcast, economist Richard Werner sat down to unpack the mysteries of modern banking, economic puzzles, and the shadowy forces shaping global economies. Broadcast in October 2025, the conversation spanned Werner's career, his bestselling book Princes of the Yen, and his groundbreaking research on Japan's ec...

At present digital privacy hangs by a thread, so the revelation of First Wap's operations has sent shockwaves through the cybersecurity and human rights communities. This Indonesian-based company, shrouded in secrecy for over two decades, has built an empire on exploiting vulnerabilities in global telecom networks. Their flagship tool, Altamides, e...

Living in an era where global powers vie for dominance, the United Kingdom finds itself at a crossroads, grappling with an insidious threat that chips away at its independence. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has methodically extended its reach into British institutions, economy, and society, exploiting complacency and economic vulnerabilities. A...

Lying in the ever-evolving field of human evolutionary biology, few topics spark as much debate as the origins of modern Homo sapiens. For decades, the "Out of Africa" theory has dominated the narrative, positing that our species emerged in Africa around 200,000 to 300,000 years ago before migrating to other continents. This model, supported by a w...

Within the span of a few decades, Western society has undergone a profound shift toward what many critics call "feminisation," a dominance of traits traditionally associated with femininity, such as empathy, consensus-building, and emotional decision-making, over rationality, competition, and fact-based logic. From an anti-feminist perspective, thi...

Following on from John Leake's poignant reflection on the "degeneracy of manners and morals" spurred by America's perpetual war mentality (see link below), it's worth delving deeper into how this moral erosion signals a profound societal fracture. James Madison's 1795 warning about war breeding inequality, fraud, and moral decay resonates more than...

Forthcoming by Routledge as part of their Studies in Social and Political Thought series, Alasdair J. Marshall's Re-Reading Pareto on Elite Power and Societal Bipolarisation: A Critical Perspective on Metapolitics and Democracy provides a timely and incisive re-examination of Vilfredo Pareto's elite theory. Here, based upon internet sites, I will d...

The headline moment, a U.S. president announcing a 20‑point plan, rapid agreement on a "phase one" ceasefire and the release of hostages, felt like a diplomatic breakthrough. But beneath the optics lay the predictable structural problems that have bedevilled peacemaking in the Middle East for decades. The Trump plan bought time and headlines; it di...

We live in an age of half-beliefs. Many people profess Christianity on Sundays while living as practical atheists Monday through Saturday. Others treat the Bible as a kind of spiritual self-help manual, cherry-picking passages that comfort them while discarding those that challenge. Still others have abandoned Christianity altogether, often because...

The world is unravelling under the weight of ideological hubris, where well-meaning but disastrous policies are driving nations toward division and bankruptcy. From Victoria's race-based "treaty" to Europe's unchecked immigration, from Australia's contradictory climate zeal, to China's quiet dominance, a pattern emerges: Elites, drunk on virtue, ar...

For years, eggs were unfairly labelled as "cholesterol bombs," blamed for clogging arteries and raising heart disease risk. Conventional wisdom urged us to limit or avoid them, leaving many hesitant to enjoy this nutrient-packed food. But recent research flips the script, showing eggs not only don't harm your heart, they may actually protect it. He...