Another day, another viral scare blasted across headlines: "Hantavirus may survive in human sperm for up to six years" and could pose a sexual transmission risk even after recovery. The story exploded in mid-May 2026, conveniently timed with the small Andes hantavirus cluster from the MV Hondius Antarctic cruise ship. Outlets like The Telegraph, Ya...
In the dying hours of the 2026 federal budget reply night, Senator Pauline Hanson was cut off mid-sentence in the Senate. Not because she'd broken any rule, but because she'd run out of the miserly time allocated to minor parties while delivering a hard-hitting alternative to Labor's tax-and-spend agenda and the Coalition's belated copycat moves. C...
Nation First wonders why the media focused on Angus Taylor's budget reply when Pauline Hanson laid out a real alternative to the Labor-Liberal uniparty. When One Nation leader Senator Pauline Hanson stood up in the Senate chamber on Thursday night to deliver her budget reply, maybe someone should have been paying attentio...
President Donald Trump touched down in Beijing last week with a heavyweight delegation of 18 top U.S. corporate executives: Elon Musk, Nvidia's Jensen Huang, Tim Cook, and others, aboard Air Force One. The mission: hammer out the future of the global AI supply chain directly with Xi Jinping. They're calling aspects of this engagement "Pax Silica," ...
North Korea remains the most dangerous country in the world to be a Christian in 2026, according to Open Doors' World Watch List, holding the No. 1 spot for the 24th consecutive year. In the Hermit Kingdom, simply owning a Bible, whispering a prayer, or being suspected of faith can land entire families in political prison camps for generations. Und...
My aged advice for young Aussie blokes in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane or regional towns: if you want children — plural — in this low-fertility country (TFR sitting at a dismal ~1.48 in 2024), stop treating marriage like a lottery. Treat it like the highest-stakes decision of your life. Emil Kirkegaard's recent deep dive into US Census data nails a ...
"Governments do not know what they cannot do until after they cease to be governments. Each government carries the seeds of its own destruction." — Frank Herbert author of Dune You don't need to slog through the dense sandworms and spice politics of Dune to feel the weight of that line. Herbert, the ecological thinker and sceptic of power, dropped ...
Former Vice President Kamala Harris lit up the internet on May 14, 2026, during a livestream on the "Win with Black Women" podcast. In what she cheerfully dubbed a "No Bad Idea Brainstorm" for Democrats ahead of the 2026 midterms, Harris laid out a wish list of constitutional overhauls that critics are rightly calling the language of civil war, not...
Australia's welfare system is under immense strain. With sustained budget deficits for nearly two decades, exploding costs in the NDIS, aged care, and other social protections, and an ageing population driving spending higher as a share of GDP, the system is approaching a breaking point. Restricting access to key welfare payments, such as JobSeeker...
A new Roy Morgan snap SMS poll has delivered a political shockwave through Canberra. According to the survey, if a federal election were held today Australia would likely face a hung parliament, with the result described as "too close to call." Most striking of all was the primary vote breakdown: One Nation reportedly sitting at 32 percent su...
The Underground War: If Conventional Bombs Cannot Stop Iran’s Missile Cities, Will it Next be Nukes?
For decades Iran prepared for the war it believed was eventually coming. While much of the world focused on aircraft, drones, and surface missile systems, Tehran invested enormous resources into something harder to photograph and far harder to destroy: underground military cities buried beneath mountains and rock. Recent reports surrounding t...
Let's get one thing straight. Australia has always understood something the rest of the world pretends it doesn't: most of us won't win. Most of us won't go viral, get the promotion, marry the glamorous partner, or have our name on anything more permanent than a sticky note. And you know what? That's fine. More than fine. That might actually be the...
For centuries the peoples of the Mediterranean treated olive oil not merely as a food, but almost as a civilisational staple. It flowed through their kitchens, economies, and daily rituals like liquid sunlight. Modern nutritional science is now catching up to what older cultures may have intuitively understood: olive oil is not simply a healthier a...
Kehinde Andrews, Professor of Black Studies at the University of Birmingham, is one of the most prominent voices in Britain's Empire debate. He has gone so far as to assert that British rule was "far worse" than the Nazis. Andrews represents a broader movement within academia that sees Western colonialism as the defining evil of human history. This...
The tense 30-minute standoff between U.S. Secret Service agents and Chinese security during President Trump's state visit to Beijing this week was a stark reminder of the razor's edge on which high-stakes diplomacy rests. Chinese officials blocked an armed Secret Service agent from entering the Temple of Heaven with his firearm, sparking heated con...
Bettina Arndt's latest argument (link below) taps into a growing sense among many men that modern society increasingly offers them responsibility without respect, expectation without loyalty, and risk without protection. In her broader body of work, and again in this recent Substack piece, she argues that large numbers of ordinary men are quietly w...
"Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality." So wrote C.S. Lewis, in a line later quoted by Cyril Connolly in The Unquiet Grave (1944). It is one of those observations that becomes more unsettling the longer one thinks about it, because it cuts through the...
"The life so short, the craft so long to learn." Few observations from the ancient world still strike with such quiet force. The line originates with Hippocrates (c. 460 – c. 370 BC) in the opening of the Aphorisms, though most people know it through the later Latin rendering, Ars longa, vita brevis. Chaucer's translation gave it enduring life in E...
Here is another story linking a U.S. military biolab to viral genomes and potential pandemic groundwork. On May 13, 2026, Modernity News published an article claiming that the reference genome for Andes hantavirus (ANDV), now relevant to the ongoing 2026 outbreak linked to the cruise ship MV Hondius, was "built" at Fort Detrick's USAMRIID fro...
Another day, another high-profile Chinese Communist Party operative caught red-handed inside American institutions. This time it's Eileen Wang, the former mayor of Arcadia, California. On May 11, 2026, she resigned her post and agreed to plead guilty to acting as an illegal foreign agent for the People's Republic of China. The U.S. Department...
