Corruption is one of those political diseases that rarely announces itself openly. It flourishes in complexity, hides inside bureaucracy, and feeds upon the assumption that ordinary citizens will never follow the paper trail. Public attention is usually drawn to the dramatic elements: gangland figures, bribery allegations, union intimidation,...

 For any side that treats its own premises as sacred, contradictions cease to be problems and become evidence of the critic's bad faith. That observation is not unique to the contemporary Left, but it is especially visible there at the moment. When a movement's moral self-conception is built around permanent righteousness, oppressor versus opp...

The latest round of fighting between the United States and Iran is not primarily about nuclear sites or regime change rhetoric. It is about control of a narrow waterway and the economic consequences of leaving that control unresolved. In June 2026 the two sides reached a memorandum of understanding that was supposed to reopen the Strait of Hormuz a...

A nation can endure a great many things: defeat, poverty, invasion, even civil war. What it cannot indefinitely endure is a sustained, official divorce from reality. Lies, once institutionalised, do not simply sit harmlessly in the archives. They reshape incentives, corrode competence, and eventually make coherent collective action impossible. The ...

In April 2025 at a Rochester, Minnesota playground, Shiloh Hendrix used a racial slur. That much is not in serious dispute. What remains contested, and what the conviction ultimately rested on, is the second interaction: the one captured on video with Sharmake Omar. According to the available accounts and the video itself, Hendrix was walking away ...

 Anthony Fauci's appearance before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee intensified already serious allegations concerning his conduct during the COVID-19 crisis. Summoned to answer questions under subpoena, Fauci reportedly invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times, refusing to address questions about pandemic...

On 29 July 2026, Dr. Anthony Fauci sat before a Senate committee and declined to answer more than a hundred questions by invoking the Fifth Amendment. Among them, courtesy of Senator Josh Hawley, were these: "What day of the week is it today?" "What color tie are you wearing?" "What colour is the carpet in front of you?" Each time the reply was the...

Romanian-French philosopher Emil Cioran (1911-1995), once remarked that "the only interesting philosophers are those who have stopped thinking and have begun to search for happiness," a similar take on academia, shared by fellow Romanian-French playwright Eugene Ionesco (1909-1994). Like many of Cioran's aphorisms, it is deliberately provocative. T...

One of the greatest ironies of modern Australia is that we compel every adult citizen to vote, yet devote remarkably little effort to ensuring they understand the political system they are voting for. Compulsory voting is often celebrated as the hallmark of Australian democracy, producing consistently high electoral participation. But participation...

The news that business figures paid roughly $10,000 a head for the privilege of dining with Anthony Albanese in Adelaide is less surprising than it is revealing. Among the guests were some of his sharper critics from the resources sector. Money still talks, even when the conversation is likely to be strained. What is more striking is the price itse...

The demand that followed the Berlin Pride van-ramming was as predictable as it was hollow: do not politicise the tragedy. Organisers, officials and commentators rushed to insist that the deaths and injuries must not be "instrumentalised," that society must not be divided, that the proper response is unity and silence on harder questions. Yet the at...

US Democrats spent a decade pouring petrol (gasoline in the US) on every institution, every norm, and every standard of public decency, and now they are shocked that the fire has a mind of its own. Victor Davis Hanson's recent analysis lays out a timeline that anyone with a functioning memory should recognize: the Democratic establishment did not g...

Every profession requires regulation. Doctors, nurses, psychologists and other health practitioners wield enormous influence over people's lives. Patients need confidence that incompetent, impaired or unethical practitioners can be investigated and, where necessary, removed from practice. That is why Australia created the Australian Health Practiti...

The Substack essay "White Immigration is Good" by Celina101 (linked below), argues that Australia occupies a distinctive position among Western countries on immigration. Unlike European nations, which face large inflows from Africa, the Middle East and parts of Asia with limited alternative sources of culturally similar migrants, Australia still ha...

The numbers look seductive on paper. Raise net overseas migration by another 40,000 a year and the federal budget's underlying cash balance improves by more than $80 billion over a decade. Cut it hard and the same ledger bleeds nearly as much. Treasury and the Parliamentary Budget Office can generate these projections with a few keystrokes, and the...

  More than half of inmates in several western states are non-German citizens. The figure excludes foreign-born individuals with German citizenship, meaning the true figure is likely to be far higher. Foreign nationals now account for almost 45 percent of Germany's prison population, with the proportion approaching 60 percent in Berlin an...

The recent knife attack in Paris, in which a jihadist allegedly targeted three women in broad daylight before courageous bystanders intervened, should provoke uncomfortable questions about how modern societies expect vulnerable citizens to defend themselves. Calls inevitably follow for more police, more CCTV, tougher sentencing and greater surveill...

Privacy did not vanish in a single dramatic seizure. It was dismantled room by room, device by device, convenience by convenience, until the idea of an unobserved life became a historical curiosity. What remains is a total surveillance society in which the last sanctuaries, the bedroom, the car, the quiet conversation, have been instrumented and co...

Britain once exported the idea that free speech was the oxygen of a free society. That inheritance is now being methodically dismantled under the polite language of safety, trust, and the fight against "misinformation." The latest Labour proposals do not ban dissenting opinions outright. They simply arrange for those opinions to become nearly impos...

There is a reliable rhythm to democratic politics that the theorists of high-minded restraint prefer not to discuss. When the polls soften, when inflation nags, when the daily grind of governance produces only middling numbers, history offers a time-tested corrective: a bit of foreign action, preferably involving explosions that can be watched on l...