Edwina Currie's "brothel" remark is not a serious policy proposal. It is a revealing symptom of a system that houses large numbers of young male asylum seekers in small rural communities while leaving the predictable social consequences unaddressed. On Times Radio, former Conservative minister Edwina Currie discussed plans to accommodate roughly 1,...
Spain invited the Ceuta migrant surge through policies that advertised openness and constrained enforcement. The 191 percent rise in irregular arrivals into the Spanish enclave, followed by the late-July mass crossing of tens of thousands, did not fall from the sky. It followed years of progressive signalling, a large-scale regularisation pro...
There was a time when one of the defining characteristics of the British was their ability to laugh. British humour could be irreverent, cruel, politically incorrect, absurd and occasionally downright offensive. Politicians, priests, aristocrats, foreigners and the British themselves were all legitimate targets. The ability to tolerate mockery was ...
I have discussed in another blog piece how a British man has been convicted over a joke. That alone ought to make anyone interested in freedom of speech uncomfortable. But the case of former police officer Stephen Gray raises an even more interesting question than whether an offensive joke should result in prosecution. What if, considered literally...
Kellie Sloane as NSW Opposition Leader has called the gun buyback "absolute bulls**t," arguing it will not prevent another Bondi-style attack, that it targets law-abiding farmers and sporting shooters rather than terrorists or organised criminals, and that it functions as a political smokescreen for failures on security and social cohesion. She has...
The global pandemic-preparedness industry has a very large price tag attached to it, but remarkably little public discussion has focused on whether the economic calculations used to justify that expenditure actually make sense. The recent critique associated with David Bell and Ramesh Thakur (linked below), therefore deserves serious attentio...
The essay by Ian Smith (Chronicles, 19 August 2026, linked below) reviews Jonathan Alpert's book Therapy Nation and offers a cultural diagnosis: the explosive growth of therapy in the United States has not reduced anxiety and dysfunction; it has helped produce a more fragile, externally blaming, and polarised society. Wokeness is presented as...
Professor David Flint has put his finger on an uncomfortable question about the political response to the Bondi Beach terrorist massacre. Why has so much attention been directed towards guns when the defining feature of the atrocity was not simply the weapon used, but the antisemitic extremist ideology of those allegedly responsible? The Albanese f...
Iran has issued one of its more ominous warnings since the present war began. According to a senior Iranian official, Tehran is preparing to abandon what it describes as its defensive posture and move to a "fully offensive" strategy unless Washington changes course within a matter of weeks. The obvious question is what "offensive" actually means. I...
China's real power is not the finished electric car or the smartphone that reaches the consumer. It is the vast, invisible layer beneath: the chemicals, the steel, the bearings, the fasteners, the active pharmaceutical ingredients, the industrial ceramics, the pumps and motors and packaging that make every modern product possible. Intermediate good...
In the heart of Silicon Valley, the people who spent years writing the code, training the models and shipping the products are now marching outside the offices of the companies they helped make rich. They carry signs about job loss and existential risk. They demand pauses on the most powerful systems. They warn that artificial intelligence could di...
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu recently declared that "every human has a legal right to the United States." This is not a fringe opinion, it reflects the core belief of the modern open-borders Left, across the West. In their worldview, national borders are immoral constructs, citizenship is a global human right, and Western nations have a moral obligatio...
Introduction: The Unavoidable Foundation The fate of a civilization is inextricably tied to the physical and mental vitality of its people. When a nation's collective health fails, so too does its capacity for rational governance, economic productivity, and social cohesion. The crumbling pillars of American power are not ...
On July 30 and 31, 2026, roughly 80,000 migrants crossed from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in one of Europe's largest mass border breaches in recent memory. Spanish government estimates now put the number still remaining at 7,000–9,000 (local authorities suggest it could be as high as 11,000) in a city whose normal population is only 8...
A Conservative MP has looked at the UK Department for Education's own numbers and drawn a straightforward conclusion. White British pupils have already fallen below 60 per cent of the state secondary school population: 59.4 per cent in 2026, the first time on record. Extrapolating the trend, Neil O'Brien projects they will become a minority in thei...
There comes a point where the official narrative becomes so strained, so costly, and so resistant to contradictory evidence that ordinary scepticism starts to look like conspiracy theorising. Tom Forrester-Paton's recent essay in The Daily Sceptic asks, with some discomfort, whether his own opposition to climate catastrophism has tipped him into th...
"Meta has a new message warning you to "be careful" when you search for mass migration related news like Ceuta on Instagram, which includes a "get migration info" button that offers "help with moving to a new country." That then takes potential migrants to a UN website with links to info for asylum seekers, as well as a UN app that brands itself as...
Female genital mutilation (FGM) presents multiculturalism with a philosophical problem that cannot be solved by another diversity slogan. A liberal society says that different cultures should be respected, that immigrants should not be required to abandon their heritage merely because they cross a border, and that cultural diversity enriches the re...
Former U.S. Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene claimed on August 16, 2026, that high-level strategy meetings in Washington are actively discussing the potential use of nuclear weapons against Iran. "I'm not speculating, I know. And it's pure evil," she wrote on X, offering no documents, named sources, or corroborating details. She accused the Tru...
Thomas Jefferson once compressed one of the great lessons of political history into a single sentence: "War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses." It is tempting to dismiss such words as pacifist idealism. Nations sometimes must fight. An invasion cannot necessarily be stopped...
