There is something profoundly disturbing about the economics of modern warfare. While civilians are killed, soldiers risk their lives, families struggle with rising prices and entire regions suffer destruction, other participants in the economic system may discover that war is exceptionally profitable. The contrast has been brought into sharp focus...
In recent years, tech moguls like Elon Musk have increasingly prophesied a post-labour future brought on by artificial intelligence and advanced robotics. In this techno-optimist vision, human labour becomes entirely obsolete. Robots mine the earth, manufacture goods, grow food, and code software. Meanwhile, the state steps in to distribute a Unive...
On October 22, 2026, French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu sent a letter to the CEOs of the country's four main mobile operators. He asked them to prepare to block Snapchat, TikTok, and Instagram by DNS filtering for several hours. X was added to the list afterward. The trigger was recent urban violence and protests; the government argued that th...
Australia's major banks are among the most powerful and profitable institutions in the country. They occupy a privileged position in the national economy, handling the savings, mortgages, business loans and financial transactions of millions of Australians. Yet their enormous economic influence is not always accompanied by an equally impressive com...
Éric Zemmour described the 17 October violence as "the true face of the Great Replacement": hordes of "barbarians" rampaging through cities, flying Palestinian, Algerian and Moroccan flags, allied with Antifa, backed by La France Insoumise deputies, and driven by hatred of France and revenge for colonisation: his terms. Trump and the Kremlin offere...
Elon Musk's recent public warning to Democrats was unusually direct. Responding to reports that a Democratic takeover of Congress would trigger multiple investigations into him, his companies, and his time leading the Department of Government Efficiency, he wrote on X: "Live by the sword, die by the sword. Those who pick fights with me should under...
Helen Haines had barely reached hospital before her suffering became ammunition against Pauline Hanson, One Nation, conservative commentators and men generally. The accusations practically outran the investigation. Political opponents were being handed responsibility for an alleged crime without evidence connecting them to it. Labor MP for Macarthu...
The claim that the political Left is structurally prone to violence is not a new one, but it remains one of the more durable observations in modern politics. Collectivist ideologies, whether framed as socialism, communism, or various strains of social justice, treat the individual as secondary to the group or the state. When the promised equality f...
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...
