One of the recurring contradictions of modern politics is the considerable distance between the public rhetoric of politicians and the lifestyles supported by their political organisations. Nowhere is this more apparent than among those who build their careers upon denouncing wealth, privilege and economic inequality, while simultaneously operating...
This November will mark a full year since my son Billy and his sweet wife Jenny were killed in a devastating car crash. It's the kind of anniversary that no parent ever believes they'll experience, the death of their child. In a different world, our family would be celebrating their one-year wedding anniversary. But I will never be able to hold my ...
The humble afternoon nap, one of life's simplest pleasures, has become the latest subject of scientific controversy. A new study suggests that frequent daytime napping among older people may be associated with an increased risk of dementia. For those who enjoy a brief afternoon sleep, this sounds like another example of medical researchers discover...
One of the great paradoxes of modern political life is that governments continually promise to solve society's problems, yet the expansion of government itself can become a major source of those problems. Every crisis seems to produce another department, another regulatory authority, another programme and another demand for public expenditure. When...
The Middle East may be approaching another exceptionally dangerous phase of the war between the United States, Israel and Iran. Although the conflict has already caused extensive destruction, disrupted global energy supplies and destabilised neighbouring countries, there are increasingly credible indications that a new and potentially much more int...
When even The Economist, one of the most influential defenders of liberal internationalism and the European political establishment, begins warning about the possible collapse of Europe's centrist political order, something significant is happening. Its editorial of 22 October 2026, entitled "The Agony of Liberal Europe," presents a remarkably blea...
When Will Everyone Notice a Mercenary Army of Occupation? Sometimes I bore myself: because what is so obvious to me, which I convey in messages I try to scream from various metaphorical rooftops, is often not obvious at all to many others; and then, history almost inevitably bears out my creepy, Cassandra-ish warnings. I ...
The Australian government's campaign to control social media has entered a new and potentially decisive phase. Communications Minister Anika Wells has announced that the government expects legal proceedings against some of the world's largest technology companies over their alleged failure to enforce Australia's ban on social media accounts for chi...
Imagine a business manager approaching the shareholders of a large corporation with an ambitious proposal. The company would establish an expensive new division, employ additional administrators, finance numerous outside organisations and undertake a long-term programme whose benefits were described in glowing but largely unquantifiable language. T...
The battle between men and women has taken another peculiar turn, this time with the emergence of what commentators are calling the femosphere, the female counterpart to the much-discussed manosphere. Where sections of the manosphere portray modern women as manipulative, demanding and impossible to satisfy, the femosphere increasingly depicts men a...
There are scientific developments that should cause us to question not merely whether something can be done, but whether humanity has any business doing it in the first place. The latest experiments combining living human brain tissue with humanoid robots belong firmly in this category. What was once the territory of Frankenstein novels and dystopi...
The battle of the sexes has been going on since Adam was a boy, and perhaps even earlier if we take the biblical account of the Garden of Eden seriously. Men and women have always misunderstood each other, quarrelled over expectations, complained about each other's behaviour and struggled to reconcile their different interests. Much of human litera...
An attorney for seven Dutch plaintiffs in a COVID-19 vaccine injury lawsuit against Bill Gates and Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla accused Gates and others of orchestrating the pandemic to help usher in the "Great Reset." During oral arguments Thursday, attorney Peter Stassen told a packed courtroom that the COVID-19 vaccines were developed as part of a b...
A short video from the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre's government-funded "We-Consent" campaign (via Cuan, the agency for domestic, sexual and gender-based violence) showed grandparents arriving at a house. One grandchild hugged them enthusiastically; a girl standing nearby looked uncomfortable as they approached. The narration stated: "Not everyone wan...
President Donald Trump has called for the immediate resignation of Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar following new developments in a federal investigation into her identity and immigration history. The controversy, which has followed the Somali-born Minnesota politician for years, has intensified after a Justice Department court filing identified...
With the American midterm elections approaching on November 3, the familiar political ritual is underway. Opinion polls are being presented as though they offer a reliable glimpse into the electoral future, commentators are constructing elaborate narratives around small movements in survey averages, and the Republican Party is once again being told...
New South Wales has become the first Australian state to pass legislation permitting the composting of human bodies after death. The Public Health Amendment (Terramation) Bill 2026, introduced by independent Sydney MP Alex Greenwich, passed both houses of Parliament on 21 October 2026. At the time of writing, it is awaiting formal assent. The legis...
The latest controversy over women's revealing clothing in gyms illustrates something rather peculiar about contemporary conservative culture. What should be a relatively straightforward matter of personal standards, modesty and individual choice has become another front in the seemingly endless war between men and women? Comedian Shane Gillis has b...
There is something deeply reassuring about the image of an old-fashioned grandmother's pantry, with its neatly arranged tins of food, jars of preserves, flour, rice, sugar, candles and other household necessities. To younger generations accustomed to supermarkets overflowing with goods and the convenience of ordering almost anything online, such pr...
The deliberate killing of newborn infants is generally regarded as one of the gravest violations of human morality. Yet a number of influential modern philosophers have argued that infanticide can be morally permissible under particular circumstances. Their arguments are not confined to obscure intellectual movements or historical curiosities. They...
