The UK's DragonFire laser-directed energy weapon (LDEW) recently made headlines again. After successful October 2025 trials at the Hebrides range, where it tracked, targeted, and downed high-speed drones flying at 650 km/h in above-the-horizon scenarios, the Ministry of Defence awarded a £316 million contract to MBDA UK (with Leonardo UK and Qineti...

As we kick off February 2026, the weather headlines are a perfect storm of contradictions. Down under in Australia, we're sweating through one of the most brutal heatwaves in years, with temperatures smashing records — places like Port Augusta and Andamooka hit a blistering 50°C just last week, fuelling wildfires and straining power grids. Meanwhil...

The recent raid in Las Vegas, ties into a broader pattern of concerns about unlicensed biological operations connected to Chinese nationals in the United States, particularly in suburban or semi-rural settings. These cases have sparked alarm about potential biosecurity risks, links to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and whether they represent de...

Why charging for parking doesn't solve the real urban problem, because the real problem isn't price, it's people, made into a crisis by mass immigration. Donald Shoup devoted his career to one of modern urban life's most irritating experiences: circling endlessly for parking while muttering about humanity's moral collapse. His landmark book The Hig...

Jared Diamond's The Third Chimpanzee has enjoyed a long and comfortable life as one of the great evolutionary narratives of the late twentieth century. Its central claim — that humans are basically chimpanzees with better software — has seeped into everything from evolutionary psychology to popular journalism, from explanations of war and rape to t...

 The documents released by the Department of Justice between late 2025 and February 2026 contain millions of pages of evidence, much of which confirms the most harrowing accounts of abuse, while other parts venture into darker, unverified territories. 1. Verification of the Claims in the Released Files Based on the documentation currently avai...

 The recent release of millions of documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein case has been framed by mainstream media as a triumph of transparency. However, as argued in a recent segment on The Jimmy Dore Show, this "massive document dump" may actually be a sophisticated "limited hangout" — a weaponised strategy of controlled confusion designed...

Let's confront a provocative thesis head-on. David Azerrad's December 2025 essay in American Greatness, "Feminism, Anti-Racism, and the Unraveling of Western Civilization," doesn't mince words: the West's decline isn't from external threats like economic rivals or geopolitical foes, but from internal ideologies that erode its foundational strengths...

Here in a world chasing the elusive ideal of perfect equity, some groups inevitably get left behind — or worse, deliberately shoved aside. The Spectator's recent piece by an anonymous author lays bare a troubling trend: the systematic economic marginalisation of young white males across key industries in the Anglosphere. From Hollywood's script roo...

Janice Fiamengo's "Excluded Generations" on Substack (Dec 24, 2025), is a blistering, no-holds-barred response to Jacob Savage's viral Compact Magazine essay "The Lost Generation" (Dec 15, 2025). Where Savage delivers a measured, data-heavy memoir of betrayal — young white male millennials promised meritocracy but handed systemic exclusion via DEI ...

The logic in J.B. Shurk's December 2025 American Thinker piece, "The British State Needs WWIII to Stave Off Civil War," boils down to a grim, darkly ironic diagnosis: when a regime has lost legitimacy at home through mass immigration, cultural fragmentation, eroded national identity, institutional distrust, and policies that alienate the native pop...

The Unshackled Physician: A Surgeon's Fight for Truth in a World of Lies – A Courageous Indictment of Medical Tyranny from an Insider's Perspective, by Dr. Ahmed Malik, is a grand book well deserving of a Saturday afternoon read, while sitting outside getting a dose of vitamin D3 and charging up one's melatonin (sleep hormone). In an era when trust...

Modernist and postmodernist architecture truly captures the Geist, the spirit, of an age of uncertainty and despair. In the built environment, these styles don't just reflect our era's dislocations; they amplify and embody them, turning cities into visual manifestos of alienation, rootlessness, and a profound loss of meaning. Lars Møller's December...

The Great Fragmentation of UK politics represents a profound shift away from the stable, centrist duopoly that defined British governance for over a century. As detailed in Iain Macwhirter's January 2026 piece in The American Conservative, the Labour–Conservative "uniparty" has shattered under waves of voter anger, disillusionment, and a readiness ...

Some things cut through the buzzing confusion of life with stark clarity: the vulnerability of young children and the responsibility adults have to protect them. Recent reports out of Portland, Oregon, highlight a disturbing incident at the Portland Montessori School, where teachers allegedly led children as young as five or six in an anti-ICE (Imm...

The question many people ask after bloating, brain fog, fatigue, joint pain, or digestive misery hits post-pasta or bread: "Is it really gluten making me feel so ill?" The short answer, based on mounting evidence and expert consensus: probably not — or at least, not gluten itself in most cases. For the vast majority who self-identify as having "glu...

Here is a maths problem with rushing out in response to a tragedy like Bondi Beach, as the Australian prime minister has done, to call for new ways to make it even harder for the general public to acquire and carry firearms with which to defend themselves. The average mass-shooting incident lasts about twelve minutes, with people dying from minute ...

In January 2025, a New York jury delivered what may prove to be a pivotal moment in medical negligence law as applied to youth gender medicine. A 22-year-old woman who detransitioned after undergoing a double mastectomy as a minor was awarded US$2 million in damages against her former psychologist and surgeon. While the verdict does not outlaw "gen...

This is an age where "change" is hailed as an unqualified good and "progress" is the rallying cry of every reformer with a plan, it's worth pausing to consider the quiet wisdom of conservatism. Not the cartoonish version peddled by critics — stodgy resistance to all novelty — but the philosophical bedrock that underpins it: a profound recognition o...

The recent revelations from a Queensland University of Technology (QUT)-led study, published in The BMJ in early 2026, expose a staggering crisis in scientific publishing: an AI-powered screening tool has flagged over 261,000 (approximately 250,000+ in rounded reports) cancer research papers—nearly 10% of the 2.6 million analysed from 1999 to 2024 ...