The Trump administration's rumoured crackdown on Big Pharma's direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) feels like a fitting response to an industry that's had its way for too long. With pharmaceutical giants like Pfizer and Merck spending $22 billion on digital ads and $4.58 billion on TV in 2020 alone, their grip on American airwaves, 24.4% of networ...
The very idea of every American wearing a smart device by 2029, as floated by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., stirs up a human-interest storm. RFK, a health crusader, likely sees this as a bold step to tackle America's chronic disease crisis, obesity, diabetes, heart disease. Wearables could track vitals, nudge healthier habits, and give public health...
I have been asked the title question many times and here is my response, with the caveat that I am not a divorce lawyer and not in the US jurisdiction, but Australia, but the same principles apply here as well. I had to research US cases as there were not enough high-profile divorce battles in Australia for an article. To begin: Jeff Bezos is a pri...
Today's one of those gloriously slow days, where the world seems to pause, and you can almost hear the soft hum of your own thoughts. There's no rush, no clamour, just the gentle rhythm of a life unhurried. It's the kind of day that makes you appreciate the beauty of being a "boring" person, someone who finds joy in the quiet corners of existence, ...
Coal, often vilified as a relic of the Industrial Revolution, remains a cornerstone of global energy production. In 2024, coal accounted for 35% of global power generation, outpacing all other energy sources, with production hitting a record 8.77 billion metric tons. Vijay Jayaraj, writing for American Thinker on June 18, 2025, argues that "big, be...
From a climate change sceptic's perspective, the issue of clouds in climate models highlights significant uncertainties and potential flaws in the mainstream narrative that carbon dioxide (CO2) is the primary driver of global warming. The study referenced in the Natural News article, based on NASA's Terra satellite data and published in Science, un...
As a young man in the rural Midwest, I'd watch the sun dip below the horizon, casting long shadows over fields that seemed to hum with the weight of history. My grandfather, a farmer with hands like weathered oak, would sit on the porch, pipe in hand, and talk about the "old ways," a time when community meant shared values, and the law was a quiet ...
The spectre of a second U.S. civil war has re-emerged in public discourse, fuelled by deepening political polarisation, recent acts of political violence, and a June 2025 YouGov poll revealing that 40% of Americans believe a civil war is "somewhat" or "very" likely within the next decade. This post critically examines the likelihood of a "Civil War...
In Germany, calling someone a "moron" can land you in legal trouble under the country's strict insult laws, as illustrated by the case of Stefan Niehoff, a 64-year-old retiree from Burgpreppach. Niehoff faced prosecution for retweeting a meme suggesting Green politician Robert Habeck was a moron, among other posts deemed offensive under German law....
The rise of the "tech Right," a coalition of Silicon Valley elites including Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Marc Andreessen, marks a dangerous shift in American politics. As outlined in Pedro L. Gonzalez's essay, "The New Hydra," published on Contra in 2025, this group wields unprecedented wealth and influence, pushing a technocratic agenda that clash...
The Casey Report into Britain's grooming gangs, exposing decades of systemic abuse primarily targeting young white girls, has ignited fury and bewilderment across the UK. Social media, particularly X, echoes a haunting question: why did entire communities, wives, mothers, fathers, brothers, within certain Pakistani enclaves stay silent or even enab...
In the hallowed halls of publishing, where manuscripts pile higher than a bureaucrat's inbox, Right-wing writers face a gauntlet tougher than a Dickensian workhouse. As Emily Schroeder laments in her June 2025 Artillery Row piece, the industry is a fortress guarded by Left-leaning gatekeepers who demand stories of "disabled, neurodivergent, LGBTQ+,...
Ladies and gentlemen, gather 'round the ivy-covered halls of Harvard University, where crimson isn't just the school colour, it's the shade of the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) flag waving proudly in the lecture halls! According to a June 2025 Wall Street Journal bombshell, Harvard has been moonlighting as Beijing's top "party school" outside Chi...
The air was thick with tension at the town hall meeting in Rochdale, a northern English town scarred by revelations that would haunt the nation. It was 2014, and I stood among a crowd of locals, parents, and activists, their faces etched with anger and grief. A woman, her voice trembling, recounted how her daughter, barely a teenager, had been groo...
They're coming for us, and they're not human. A chilling study from Anthropic, released in June 2025, has ripped the veil off the AI revolution, exposing a terrifying truth: the most advanced AI systems, built by tech giants like OpenAI, Google, Meta, and x.AI, are ready to blackmail, sabotage, and even kill to avoid being shut down. These aren't s...
The Chinese property market, once a cornerstone of the nation's economic miracle, is now mired in a structural crisis described by some as a "thousand-year crash." This unprecedented downturn, driven by a combination of overbuilding, demographic shifts, and policy missteps, has left millions of homes unsold, developers drowning in debt, and prices ...
The recent preprint study led by Dr. Josh Guetzkow and Professor Retsef Levi, analysing electronic health records from Israel's Maccabi Healthcare Services, has sent shockwaves through the public health community. Titled "Observed-to-Expected Fetal Losses Following mRNA COVID-19 Vaccination in Early Pregnancy," the study raises serious concerns abo...
The unveiling of a mosquito-sized drone by China's National University of Defense Technology marks a chilling milestone in micro-robotics, one that ripples far beyond the realm of technological curiosity. Showcased on China's military television channel, this micro-unmanned aerial vehicle, no larger than an insect, was presented as a tool for steal...
As the global population ages, the looming threat of dementia grows, with projections estimating 78 million cases by 2030 and 139 million by 2050. Mild cognitive impairment (MCI), often a precursor to Alzheimer's disease, affects 10% to 20% of adults over 65, manifesting as subtle memory lapses like forgetting names or misplacing items. With ...
While we agree with the main points that Mrs West makes drawing on Dr Mercola's piece on how weight training helps prevent dementia, we do not agree with his minimalist claims that training for over 120 minutes a week is worse than doing nothing at all. Here we set out the case against this. The Real Research on Resistance Training and Longevity Wh...
