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...
At a Jerry Seinfeld stand-up performance at the Chicago Theatre on 9 October 2026, protesters interrupted the comedian's routine to accuse him of racism and defending Israel's military actions in Gaza. One protester shouted a Palestinian casualty figure and denounced Seinfeld's public support for Israel. Seinfeld's response was immediate and sarcas...
Three recent pieces converge on a single diagnosis of Western instability. The Spectator Australia argues that open contempt for patriotism: love of country, its history, and its symbols, has become a distinguishing feature of the contemporary Left, with France's current unrest offered as the foreseeable result. Robert Malone's Substack descr...
At a Melbourne Assembly event, urbanist Carlos Moreno, the originator of the "15-minute city" idea, declared the concept "absolutely possible" for Melbourne even as the city heads toward a population of nine million by 2050. The vision is straightforward on paper: residents should be able to reach essential services (work, shops, schools, healthcar...
Andrew Devine's recent Daily Sceptic piece argues that Left-leaning Boomers (born 1946–64) and Gen Xers (1965–80) in Britain were conditioned by the race politics of the 1960s–90s to treat any criticism of immigration as equivalent to racial hatred. In those decades, opposition to the far smaller inflows of the time often came from overtly racist q...
With the 2026 midterms less than two weeks away, Victor Davis Hanson has framed the contest as something deeper than ordinary partisan score-settling. In an American Greatness essay, he describes a "conflict of visions": socialism versus capitalism, limited versus expansive government, and preservation of longstanding institutions versus their deli...
In mid-to-late October 2026, France saw some of its worst civil unrest in years. What began as student protests over school conditions and the cost of living expanded into nationwide marches involving hundreds of thousands of people. Parallel to the largely peaceful demonstrations, black-bloc-style groups, opportunistic looters, and others engaged ...
On 21–22 October 2026, a cluster of Australian government websites flickered offline or displayed maintenance pages. The Australian Signals Directorate's own cyber.gov.au portal went dark. The Australian Bureau of Statistics site was unavailable. Jobs and Skills Australia and others followed. A spokesperson for the Minister for Cybersecurity confir...
The dream of extending human life has occupied scientists, philosophers and ordinary people for centuries. Modern medicine has already made enormous progress in preventing premature death, but the more ambitious goal of reversing biological ageing remains largely beyond our reach. A new study published in Aging Cell in October 2026 provides another...
For millions of people who struggle to obtain a decent night's sleep, the search for a safe, inexpensive and effective remedy is an ongoing frustration. Prescription sleeping tablets can produce unwanted side effects, while many over-the-counter products offer little more than expensive promises. In Australia, access to melatonin is regulated, maki...
A familiar Musk pattern: two of his companies, SpaceX and Tesla, have formed special committees of independent directors to study a merger. A combined entity would be worth something on the order of $3.5 trillion, the largest corporate combination in history, tying rockets, satellites, electric vehicles, batteries, robots, and AI computers under on...
Political violence must be condemned. It must also be understood. Asking why people threaten politicians does not excuse the threats, any more than investigating the causes of crime excuses criminals. The latest reported total number of threats against public office holders rose from 951 to 1,067, an increase of 116, or 12.2 percent. These figures ...
Modern civilisation rests upon a comforting assumption: technological progress is cumulative and essentially irreversible. Once a society has discovered how to build complex machines, construct sophisticated infrastructure or harness particular forms of energy, that knowledge becomes part of humanity's permanent intellectual inheritance. Future gen...
In a televised address after the 17 October unrest, Emmanuel Macron asked how French people could do such things to France. He distinguished between demonstrators raising legitimate grievances over the cost of living, fuel prices and the condition of public education, and those he described as ultra-left agitators joined by criminals who looted sho...
The world may be approaching a period of extraordinary economic and geopolitical instability, not because of one isolated catastrophe, but because several major crises threaten to converge. Michael Snyder, writing in his 19 October 2026 article, We Are Facing a Global Energy Crisis, a Global Food Crisis, a European Financial Crisis, the End of the ...
Margaret Thatcher's observation that socialist governments "always run out of other people's money" was made in a 1976 television interview while she was Leader of the Opposition. The remark captured a recurring fiscal pattern: redistribution and nationalisation eventually exhaust the taxable surplus generated by productive activity. The point is s...
