J.B. Shurk's line in American Thinker (link below), is that Europeans should overthrow their ruling class rather than be volunteered for a war with Russia while the home front is treated as optional. The timing is the usual one: security panics before elections, parties branded as Moscow's cut-outs, commissions talking hybrid war, ministers talking...

Are there data showing whether routine childhood vaccines pose less risk than the diseases they target? A review of some childhood vaccines suggests those data don't exist. What the available data do show is this: The risk of serious adverse events caused by vaccines often outweighs the risk of contracting the disease if not vaccinated. Recent meas...

George Monbiot has seen some terrible driving. Street racers in the West Midlands doing 90 in a 30. Convoys in mid-Wales that woke his infant daughter. Lifted pickups in Devon that "roll coal" at cyclists. Soft sentences. Police who want a number plate and a form. SUVs with bonnets that hide children. None of that requires a new branch of gender st...

In Europe, with paranoia about a Russian invasion and the like, the issue of conscription is once more on the agenda, and so must be opposition to this. At its core, individual liberty is grounded in self-ownership. A free person owns their body, mind, and the fruits of their labor. Yet, throughout history, the nation-state has claimed an ultimate,...

The 50th anniversary of the death of Chairman Mao has just passed. Mao Zedong remains one of the most polarising figures of the 20th century. While lauded by party loyalists as the founding father who unified modern China, his decades-long reign resulted in the deaths of tens of millions of people through targeted state executions, political purges...

 After two decades of population growth running far hotter than the OECD pack, the polling has stopped being subtle. The latest Newspoll, the one Macrobusiness hung its piece on, finds about two-thirds of Australians want immigration cut: 37 percent "a lot fewer," 29 percent "fewer." Six percent want more. Twenty-eight percent would leave it a...

While this has some technicalities, critiques of climate change alarmism, and hence zero net, are important enough to grin and bear a few technicalities. A newly published paper by Demetris Koutsoyiannis (link below), argues that the familiar thirty-three-degree gap between Earth's effective radiating temperature, about 255 K (Kelvin to Celsius: Su...

There is good news for Australia's struggling renters. Just when more than half are reportedly experiencing financial difficulty and advertised rents have risen by roughly 50 per cent since the pandemic, governments continue to ensure that hundreds of thousands of additional people enter the country each year requiring somewhere to live. It is an u...

Andy Burnham has announced plans for a new "National Centre for Information Defence" to fight so-called "disinformation" as he blamed Russia for "amplifying far Right narratives", prompting fresh fears for free speech. GB News has more. The Prime Minister, addressing the United Nations, announced the centre to improve "community cohesion" and preve...

Anthony Albanese went to the United Nations last week to talk about rules, middle powers, AI agents in government websites, and Australia's Digital Duty of Care. Last year's pitch was the under-16 social media ban, now copied in talking points by twenty-odd countries. This year's add-on is a broader duty on platforms: user control of feeds, ministe...

 Columbia's Wendy Walters has a book headed for the awards circuit: A Dead White: An Argument Against White Paint. White paint, the pitch goes, is not a neutral coat. It is erasure, exclusion, the masking of power. The origin story is a "visceral dislike" of the stuff that she refuses to call irrational. Then come the exhibits: white supremaci...

There is an old political trick of turning an opponent's argument around and asking what assumptions have to be true for that argument to work. A viral compilation of interviews about voter identification offers an almost painfully good opportunity to do exactly that. Modernity.news asks provocatively, "Why Are White Liberal Women So Racist?" That ...

A Cambridge-linked team has just put a very large stack of papers through the mill: 1,279 studies, more than 600,000 people, 76 countries, three decades. The folk belief they were testing is the one that sells leadership books and HR modules: women are the emotionally intelligent sex. The result is not a clean rebuttal and not a clean confirmation....

       The jury system cannot survive moral illogic and the refusal of objectivity. It's difficult to assess the prevalence of the Clancy phenomenon, in which a female-dominated consensus, sentimental and vicious, formed swiftly around the alleged suffering and humanity of a woman who killed her three children in a premeditated ...

 In Greg Johnson's version of Animal Farm, the chickens labor mightily to create a being that is immeasurably smarter and more powerful than they are, on the assumption that this being will serve them. In a way, they were right, for when their new creation, "man," came online, he served his creators up for dinner. Let's call it Data Farm. "But...

A debate is opening on parts of the right that does not run through Bernie, DSA, or the ABC. Ted Cruz is still doing the Cold War lines: no, and hell no. Hunter Wallace at Occidental Dissent is doing the other ones: the GOP's capitalism talk is a dud, living standards feel worse, and "socialist China" has spent thirty years building ports, trains, ...

Mike Adams has invented the deliberately offensive term "Retardageddon" for what he regards as the intellectual collapse of Western civilisation. Strip away the provocative terminology and some highly questionable claims surrounding it, and there is an important idea underneath: a civilisation ultimately depends upon enough of its members retaining...

John Cleese has spent most of his adult life making people laugh at things they were not necessarily supposed to laugh at. Religion, class, nationalism, bureaucracy, sex, race, Germans, the British, foreigners, politicians and human stupidity have all passed through the Monty Python machine. Now, at the age of 86, Cleese has encountered something e...

Australia signed a 10-year Bilateral Security Agreement with Ukraine on 23–24 September 2026 on the sidelines of UN General Assembly High-Level Week in New York. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy formalised a framework for defence and security cooperation, accompanied by a further A$60 million package. Official figur...

There is something peculiar about the Australian immigration debate. We hold elections over tax cuts, electricity prices, Medicare and relatively minor changes to industrial relations. Yet one of the largest decisions a government can make: how rapidly the country's population should grow, tends to disappear into Treasury forecasts, visa categories...