For Australians who have not followed the Lindsay Clancy case in Massachusetts, the ending of this extraordinary trial raises questions extending well beyond the terrible deaths at its centre; profound questions about legal evidence are raised highly relevant to all common law jurisdictions such as Australia. Clancy admitted killing her three young...

If Massachusetts retries Lindsay Clancy for killing her three children, the Commonwealth should not simply rerun Trial One with different jurors. It needs a different theory of presentation. The first trial became overwhelmingly a battle of psychiatrists. Postpartum psychosis, depression, medications, hospitalisation, delusions, mental-health treat...

The Clancy jury in Plymouth, Massachusetts, was just dismissed from a mistrial. Seven days of deliberation, three notes to the judge, one holdout who refused to budge, and Lindsay Clancy walks away from a first-degree murder conviction, at least for now. Three children strangled with exercise bands in a Duxbury basement. Cora, five. Dawson, three. ...

"A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push." Ludwig Wittgenstein, (1889-1951), Culture and Value: https://www.amazon.com.au/Culture-Value-Ludwig-Wittgenstein/dp/0226904350 Wittgenstein's line is almost a joke until you notice how much of modern life...

 Kevin You's warning (link below) is that Victoria is no longer a local embarrassment but a template. Per-person GDP has gone backwards for ten of the fifteen quarters to March 2026. Real wages in the private sector have been eaten by inflation while public-sector pay has kept pace. Average private pay sits around $78,000; public pay above $10...

The Associated Press can still write that scientists have long warned of more intense heat waves, storms, floods and droughts, and that what once seemed like fiction now looks inevitable. That sentence is the old climate-crisis script. It is also, on several of the phenomena it lists, at odds with what the IPCC's own assessments say has been detect...

 Elon Musk has now proposed something that sounds less like climate policy than the opening scene of a science-fiction film. Humanity, he suggests, could ultimately regulate the temperature of the Earth using "sentient satellites" positioned around the Earth-Sun Lagrange points, with the machinery launched from the Moon by electromagnetic mass...

Offshore wind is normally argued about as an environmental, economic or energy question. Supporters point to renewable electricity and reduced dependence upon fossil fuels; opponents point to cost, intermittency, transmission infrastructure, marine impacts and the industrialisation of coastlines. There is another question that receives considerably...

The world is not on a timer that anyone can read, but the guardrails that once made nuclear war a theoretical nightmare rather than an operational subject have thinned. New START, the last treaty that capped deployed American and Russian strategic warheads and allowed inspections, expired in February 2026. For the first time in more than half a cen...

"South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas has officially confirmed the state will not be participating in the proposed national firearms buyback scheme. The Shooting Industry Foundation (SIFA) CEO James Walsh said the move was a significant win for common sense reform in the state, "This announcement marks a further blow to Anthony Albanese's fai...

The LifeNews headline compresses a more specific claim. David Reardon, M.W. Shuping and P.K. Giebink, writing in Issues in Law and Medicine, surveyed a national random sample of women with a topic-blind questionnaire and found that 22.6 percent reported a past abortion, close to Guttmacher estimates. Among those women they scored an eight-item risk...

The news that Birmingham, once the industrial heart of the English Midlands, is now contemplating a ban on the display of the St. George's Cross and the Union Jack due to "safety concerns" is not merely an administrative policy shift; it is the final, undeniable signal of a nation that has lost the will to exist. When the symbols of a country's ide...

The US House vote on 2 September was not a mystery about arithmetic. A proposed constitutional amendment that would have locked the Supreme Court at nine justices failed 212–206, well short of the two-thirds required. Two hundred and five Democrats voted no. One, Don Davis of North Carolina, voted yes. The text was a single sentence: the Court shal...

 Every civilisation imagines that history has been leading towards itself. Earlier societies rose and fell because they were primitive, superstitious, technologically backward or badly governed; we possess science, universities, central banks, computers, nuclear weapons, welfare systems and artificial intelligence, so presumably the old rules ...

The ageing of the world's population is usually presented as a problem for pensions, healthcare and labour supply. It is all of those things, but it also exposes a deeper weakness in one of the West's favourite demographic assumptions: that whenever domestic populations age and fertility falls, immigration can simply replenish the workforce. That m...

If Marine Le Pen wins the Élysée she intends to govern, in part, by asking the French to vote directly on two packages rather than waiting for a hostile National Assembly or a wary Conseil constitutionnel. The first referendum would be on immigration: ending birthright citizenship, restricting welfare to French citizens, and systematic expulsion of...

Democratic order rests on a thin agreement that most people will not take what is not theirs even when the camera is off, that shops will still be there in the morning, and that officials will not recast theft as justice. Lars Møller's argument in Pandering to Predation (link below), is that this agreement is neither natural nor self-repairing, and...

Britain has achieved a new unit of national timekeeping. In the three months to June 2026 the Home Office granted indefinite leave to remain or citizenship to 140,122 people, which works out at 1.07 successful applicants per minute, every minute, including the minutes in which the country is supposed to be asleep. Over the full year nearly 200,000 ...

The recent directive from the United Nations, demanding that Britain erect statues of Africans as a form of "reparatory justice" for the slave trade, stands as a masterclass in institutional gaslighting. It is a stunning display of historical illiteracy, one that ignores the singular, pivotal role Britain played in the global eradication of slavery...

Imagine that the essential facts of the Lindsay Clancy case remain the same, but that we move the accused backwards and sideways through history. A mother kills her three young children. There is little serious dispute that she physically committed the acts. The great question is whether she possessed the mental capacity at the time to be held crim...