Political violence is not new to the West, nor is it the exclusive domain of any single ideology. History is littered with assassinations, bombings, and targeted killings from anarchists, nationalists, religious extremists, and both ends of the political spectrum. What makes a contemporary claim, that there is a discernible "rise of Left-wing slayi...

This issue cuts to the heart of a quiet but consequential shift: what happens when a determination of exposure to a biological or chemical threat rests not on a swab that still contains the agent, a residue that can be independently assayed, or a symptom that a physician can observe, but on an algorithm comparing a person's epigenetic profile again...

Civilisations rarely die from a single external blow. More often they hollow out from within, the structural beams quietly chewed away until a roof that looked solid suddenly sags. Our Aussie image of white ants, termites working unseen in the wood, is apt for the claim that the West is being eaten not just by unassimilated outsiders, but by forces...

One of the oldest truths of war is that its first casualty is truth. Governments routinely claim that operations are proceeding as planned, casualties are light, and victory is near. Only later, sometimes years or decades later, does the fuller, often messier picture emerge. Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, and countless earlier wars have taught us this...

Science fiction writer, Philip K. Dick's warning about disinformation and the erasure of shared reality remains one of the sharpest diagnoses of modern information warfare. The line attributed to him: "if you can float enough disinformation into circulation you will totally abolish everyone's contact with reality, probably your own included," captu...

The Office for Equality and Opportunity has reportedly pushed hard for greater representation of LGBT individuals and ethnic minorities on British banknotes. According to the Daily Sceptic, this drive continues a pattern of prioritising identity politics over historical merit, national cohesion, or public sentiment. While the campaigners frame it a...

A new study highlighted by Report24 (linked below), delivers yet another blow to the romantic Leftist narrative surrounding industrial wind power. Far from being a gentle, clean source of energy, large-scale wind farms are measurably heating up the local environment, particularly at night. The findings are straightforward and physics-based. Wind tu...

While Europe confronts the visible consequences of decades of mass migration and plummeting native birth rates, similar patterns are playing out across the Western world, including in Australia. The "two minutes to midnight" warning issued by Eva Vlaardingerbroek and the Save Europe Act campaign, discussed today at the blog, resonates far beyond th...

"The Left's goal is always to break human reason, because once you break human reason, then people will believe anything, they will do anything, and they can be completely controlled." Elizabeth Nickson The claim is blunt and uncomfortable: segments of the contemporary Left appear intent on breaking human reason itself. Not merely disagreeing with ...

I believe the article in American Thinker (linked below) is right, even if it makes many uncomfortable. Women should not serve as front-line police officers or in combat roles in the military (all other roles are fine), and society would be healthier if we restored meaningful adultery laws. This isn't about hatred of women or nostalgia for the 1950...

For years, Australia has watched its housing crisis deepen while policymakers offered familiar excuses and half-measures. High migration driving demand, restrictive planning laws choking supply, and a political class seemingly unwilling to make hard choices. Across the Pacific, Canada has begun to confront a similar problem with refreshing honesty,...

 Back in 1973, the world learned a harsh lesson about energy dependence. The OPEC oil embargo triggered economic chaos across the West: stagflation, long queues at petrol stations, and a painful reckoning with the fragility of modern industrial society. China, largely isolated and still reeling from the Cultural Revolution, largely escaped the...

Australia's deepening engagement with India, recently highlighted by the Albanese government's diplomatic and economic overtures, is often presented as a strategic masterstroke. A vibrant democracy, a growing economy, a counterweight to China; the narrative writes itself. Yet beneath the optimism lies a harder truth: placing significant trust in In...

In Rome, a gathering of Nobel laureates has issued a fresh call for the world to confront two existential threats at once: nuclear weapons and the rapid advance of artificial intelligence. Backed, it is suggested, by the moral authority of the Pope himself, the declaration urges global efforts to "disarm" AI, to constrain its development, limit its...

In the summer of 2001, a group of elite scientists convened under the umbrella of DARPA's JASON advisory group to ponder a seemingly abstract question: how should biology change as computers grew more powerful? The resulting report, Biofutures, was not about weapons or pandemics in any direct sense. It was something more foundational, a philosophic...

There was a time, not long ago, when artificial intelligence was sold as the great liberator of modern work. It would automate the drudgery, surface insights buried in data, free humans for creative and strategic thinking, and finally fix the chronic dysfunctions plaguing offices, factories, and service industries. Productivity would soar. Bureaucr...

A fresh Newspoll has captured something important that many have quietly observed for years. While most Australians increasingly view China as a serious strategic and security threat, a significant portion of Left-leaning voters remain far more relaxed about Beijing's intentions and influence. The gap is widening, and it reveals deeper currents in ...

For decades, a diagnosis of early Alzheimer's disease or mild cognitive impairment came with an unspoken message of hopelessness. Patients were told that memory loss was the inevitable consequence of aging or unfortunate genetics. At best, a drug might modestly slow symptoms for a limited period. Families were advised to prepare for progressive dec...

Before the Industrial Revolution, work was more than simply a means of earning a living. It shaped identity, developed character, connected people to community, and gave visible meaning to daily existence. The blacksmith saw the horses he shod. The carpenter watched families move into houses he built. The farmer harvested crops that fed neighbours....

Long after our own civilisation has exhausted itself, future archaeologists, or whatever scrappy survivors pick through the ruins, will stare up at the decaying skeletons of wind turbines and the vast, crumbling fields of solar panels and wonder what on earth we were thinking. According to a recent piece in the Daily Sceptic, these "renewable" ener...