Australians have been promised that the transition to renewable energy would deliver cheaper electricity, cleaner industry and a prosperous new economic future. Instead, they are confronted with the prospect of electricity prices rising dramatically as coal-fired power stations close and replacement infrastructure struggles to arrive on sched...

If you're cutting back on steak, chops or a good Sunday roast because some global report told you it will cook the planet or clog your arteries, stop. You're not saving the world. You're probably just making yourself more tired, iron-deficient and easier to sell ultra-processed plant-based sludge. That's the blunt message from scientists who have h...

Australia may be sitting on one of the most dangerous economic vulnerabilities in its modern history, and it has nothing directly to do with house prices, interest rates or government debt. It concerns something more basic: diesel fuel. Without diesel, the trucks that deliver food to supermarkets cannot operate normally, farmers cannot harvest crop...

Ordinary Australians face a stark double standard in financial accountability. A pensioner who miscalculates a Centrelink payment by a few hundred dollars can face demands for explanations, documentation and repayment. A small business that loses track of its accounts draws intense interest from the Australian Taxation Office. Yet when the federal ...

 The modern world has constructed a civilisation that depends upon electricity for almost everything, from the refrigeration of food and the pumping of drinking water to communications, banking, transport, hospitals and industrial production. Yet the extraordinary complexity of this technological civilisation has created vulnerabilities that p...

France is once again experiencing the familiar spectacle of burning vehicles, smashed shopfronts, attacks upon police and public buildings going up in flames. The latest wave of unrest has exposed the profound divisions within French society and the apparent inability of President Emmanuel Macron's government to maintain public order. Yet amid the ...

Raoul Pal, the macro investor and Real Vision founder, has been circulating a blunt timeline: we may have only about four years, roughly until 2030–2032, before the world as we know it stops working the way it does now. He calls the threshold the "Economic Singularity." In his framing, exponential technologies (AI, robotics, energy, and crypto) are...

The numbers are not a rounding error. They are a strategic verdict. China builds roughly 50–60% of the world's commercial ships by tonnage in a given year. The United States builds a fraction of one percent, often cited in the 0.04–0.2% range, or fewer than five large oceangoing commercial vessels annually in recent years. Office of Naval Intellige...

Modern civilisation has become so dependent upon electricity and the internet that most people scarcely notice the technological foundations of their daily lives until something goes wrong. Banking, shopping, healthcare, communications, government administration, transport and food distribution depend upon interconnected electronic systems function...

The 2026 midterms produced two concurrent outcomes that are not easily separated. Democrats recaptured Congress and flipped red-state executive offices by running on cost of living, opposition to the Iran war, and corruption. At the same time, Democratic Socialists of America-aligned candidates took the mayoralties of New York, Los Angeles, Seattle...

Lionel Shriver (a female writer), writing from the vantage of a former progressive, offers a sharp diagnosis of the contemporary Left's temperament. Progressives, she argues, are driven less by a constructive vision than by the need for an enemy, the pleasure of tearing things down, and the comfort of perpetual adolescence. Their protests are angry...

One of the great mysteries of modern democratic politics is why governments so frequently refuse to implement policies that enjoy substantial public support. Elections are fought, politicians promise change, and millions of voters participate in the supposedly decisive process of choosing their representatives. Yet once the election is over, the fa...

The FDA has confirmed insertional oncogenesis involving a viral-vector gene therapy that uses the same category of DNA-delivery technology as Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca COVID shots. In a major safety announcement issued November 6, 2026, the FDA revealed that DNA delivered by Zolgensma had integrated into patients' chromosomes in two tum...

The World Justice Project's 2026 Rule of Law Index records declines in 26 of the 40 European countries with comparable data since 2021. The four Nordic states that long topped the rankings, Denmark, Norway, Finland, and Sweden, all lost ground, albeit modestly. The pattern is not confined to Europe. For the ninth consecutive year, declines outnumbe...

Look at the sequence. After midterms that gave Democrats fresh institutional leverage, the immediate signals were not a concrete affordability package or a growth agenda. They were subpoenas, investigations into private companies that worked with the previous administration, explicit talk of restraining advanced AI, and warnings that data-centre an...

A One Nation candidate recently argued that high levels of migration cannot substitute for the millions of potential Australians lost to abortion and chronically low birth rates, and that Australia should support its own mothers having children rather than relying on importing other people's. The claim drew immediate accusations of "great replaceme...

For years before COVID, "prepping" was treated as a punchline. Reality television turned people with extra cans of beans and a generator into spectacles of eccentricity or worse. National Geographic's Doomsday Preppers and similar programmes framed stockpiling as the hobby of the paranoid, the isolated, or the politically extreme. Media coverage of...

What does a man do when he has accumulated more money than he could possibly spend in a thousand lifetimes? For most people, financial security, a comfortable home, a family and sufficient resources to enjoy life would constitute a remarkable achievement. But among sections of the Silicon Valley technological elite, the accumulation of billions of ...

On a Sunday night in Torquay, Victoria, a 60-year-old One Nation volunteer stepped outside his own home after a 14-year-old boy allegedly began damaging campaign signs on his property. What followed, according to police and party accounts, was an assault involving a baseball bat. A 37-year-old man and the teenager were arrested shortly afterward. T...

Somewhere in a dimly lit room, a person with too many monitors and not enough sunlight has just committed the most unforgivable crime of the decade. They have not stolen nuclear codes. They have not emptied a bank. They have done something far worse: they have made the ice cream soft! Across Sweden, Belgium, Luxembourg, Ireland, and Estonia, superm...