North Yorkshire staff who handle anti-terror work were shown a slide stating that "Mother Mary wore a hijab." The line was used to argue that Islam's attitude to women does not conflict with Western values. The same presentation told them "Jesus grew a beard," as Muslim men are instructed to, and that "the hijab was prevalent in the UK only 100 yea...

More woke in action from Cambridge colleges. Steve Watson covers the story: "Gonville and Caius College, one of Cambridge's oldest foundations, is compelling its undergraduates to attend mandatory "inclusivity training" from the start of term. The 90-minute sessions are being delivered by Stop Hate UK, a 'charity' activist organisation whose own ma...

If hostility to immigrants were the offense that editors claim to care about, Nairobi and Banjul would face the same denunciation as Washington and Westminster. Earlier this month, Kenya's president told a gathering of small traders at State House that foreigners running hawking stalls and petty retail shops must close, and he promised legislation ...

A generation ago, a purchase ended. You paid, you carried the thing home, and the seller's claim on it was finished. The subscription model reverses the ending. The payment is the relationship, and the relationship does not close. James Wesley Rawles, writing on SurvivalBlog at the end of September, described the feeling exactly: life as a parking ...

Elon Musk has made one of his more extraordinary predictions. Within roughly three years, he says, Tesla's Optimus robots could become better surgeons than the best human surgeons, and not merely as a laboratory curiosity. He predicts that they could eventually be manufactured at such scale that great surgical skill becomes available almost everywh...

For a week at the end of September and the start of October 2026, French high schools were blockaded over a grievance the wire services can recite in a sentence: overcrowded classrooms, missing teachers, crumbling lycées, and a €54 billion austerity budget from Sébastien Lecornu's government. Reuters, the BBC, CNN and the New York Times all led wit...

Florida did not sue Pfizer over whether the COVID-19 shot "worked." It sued over what the company said while selling it. On October 1, 2026, Attorney General James Uthmeier filed a 49-page complaint in St. Lucie County circuit court against Pfizer Inc. and, personally, chairman and CEO Albert Bourla. The case is brought only under the Florida Decep...

       Just as the old Hanseatic city of Danzig was a major flashpoint for World War II, the old Hanseatic city of Kaliningrad (formerly Königsberg) may be prove to be the flashpoint for World War III. The most disconcerting thing about living in the West is that we have no reliable means of knowing who is in charge. The circums...

Celebrity mathematician, Hannah Fry, arrived at UK Celebrity Traitors with spreadsheets and a war story. For those unfamiliar with The Traitors, the game is simple. Most contestants are secretly designated "Faithful," while a small number are secretly chosen as "Traitors." The Traitors know who each other are and secretly "murder" one Faithful cont...

There is something profoundly troubling about the case of Keith and Di Blessing, an elderly New South Wales couple whose nightmare began not in some dangerous city street but in their own home. Keith Blessing was 75. His wife Di was 72. According to police, a 34-year-old man broke into their rural home at Torrington, about 65 kilometres south-west ...

Start with the premise, not the sermon. This is a hypothetical, a constitutional thought experiment, not something the Albanese government has proposed: just yet! Suppose One Nation surges at a federal election. Polls, preferences, a fractured Coalition and an extraordinary campaign carry Pauline Hanson's party to enough seats to command the House ...

 There is an intriguing idea buried inside the argument that women with borderline personality disorder have helped shape Western culture and history, made by Ed Dutton. Personality matters. Temperament matters. Mental illness matters. Individuals with unusually intense personalities can exert disproportionate influence upon families, workplac...

Philip Byrne's 29 September essay on ZeroHedge, "The End of Europe," opens with Jefferson on banks and Smedley Butler on war as a racket, then argues that Europe's rearmament is a bailout for the people who broke the economy. The bankers'-war line is the loud version. The quieter one is enough: this mobilisation is a financial operation first, and ...

The cables are already being mauled in peacetime, usually by a ship that claims it was careless. In a war the same trick is available on purpose, and the West cannot put a guard on every mile of glass on the seabed. Elisabeth Braw's essay in the 26 September issue of The Spectator is the civilian version of that problem. A Chinese icebreaker, the J...

 From the anthrax letter attacks in 2001 to aerosolized Ebola in 2015 to the development of SARS-CoV-2 in years 2014-2019, the culprit was never a dangerous foreigner, but the US "biosecurity state." In the 2020 HBO psychological thriller miniseries The Undoing, Hugh Grant plays Dr. Jonathan Fraser, a pediatric oncologist who seems to have it ...

Europe's housing crisis is usually discussed as though houses have somehow acquired a life of their own. Rents rise, vacancy rates collapse, young people remain with their parents, families crowd into inadequate accommodation and governments announce another package of subsidies, planning reforms or rent controls. What often receives less attention...

 The Daily Wire version is the paywalled reprint. The original, Eli Steele's "The White Guilt Cage," is the argument: fear of the racism charge built a racial order, and the West now buys its moral standing by treating white guilt as the price of being allowed to speak. Steele opens on a December 2025 killing in Southampton, because he thinks ...

The elites are not arguing with a memory. They are confiscating it, then diagnosing the people who still have it. At a fringe meeting of the Labour conference in Liverpool, Jenny Riddell-Carpenter, the minister for nature and rural affairs, and the MP for Suffolk Coastal, said she lies awake fearing what the "far-Right" will do with the countryside...

 Ceuta is the case in which the arrivals did not become a workforce, a cuisine, or a growth story. They became a fifth of the city, sleeping in tunnels, and the government that called this humanitarian is now trying to send them back. Jim Lawley's 30 September piece in The Spectator starts nine weeks after the crossing. Tens of thousands came ...

 Washington has already put the warning in writing. If Labor keeps going, the next steps are the ones it has used on Europe: name the law as censorship, treat the fines as a trade barrier, and squeeze the parts of the relationship that are not submarines. William Nye's 30 September column in The Spectator Australia reads the latest American st...