Democratic order rests on a thin agreement that most people will not take what is not theirs even when the camera is off, that shops will still be there in the morning, and that officials will not recast theft as justice. Lars Møller's argument in Pandering to Predation (link below), is that this agreement is neither natural nor self-repairing, and...

Britain has achieved a new unit of national timekeeping. In the three months to June 2026 the Home Office granted indefinite leave to remain or citizenship to 140,122 people, which works out at 1.07 successful applicants per minute, every minute, including the minutes in which the country is supposed to be asleep. Over the full year nearly 200,000 ...

The recent directive from the United Nations, demanding that Britain erect statues of Africans as a form of "reparatory justice" for the slave trade, stands as a masterclass in institutional gaslighting. It is a stunning display of historical illiteracy, one that ignores the singular, pivotal role Britain played in the global eradication of slavery...

Imagine that the essential facts of the Lindsay Clancy case remain the same, but that we move the accused backwards and sideways through history. A mother kills her three young children. There is little serious dispute that she physically committed the acts. The great question is whether she possessed the mental capacity at the time to be held crim...

Something very interesting happened late in the Lindsay Clancy trial, and it may tell us considerably more about the jury than anyone in the courtroom was prepared to say openly. After six days of deliberations, the jury foreperson informed Judge William Sullivan that one juror was allegedly refusing to follow the court's instructions concerning re...

The recent catastrophe in the Himalayas, which has claimed so many lives and left thousands missing across Nepal and Tibet, is a tragedy of immense proportions. Yet, even as the search and recovery operations continue in the shadow of this disaster, a predictable and grotesque pattern has emerged. Before the dust had even settled, the climate chang...

The HHS-commissioned survey Where the Clinic Meets the Movement does not invent the charge that contemporary gender ideology travels with Left-wing authoritarianism; it merely gives the charge numbers. Twelve hundred and eight American adults completed a Clinical Gender Affirmation Scale drawn from the published guidance of the APA, the American Ps...

The Overton Window is usually presented as a simple picture: at any moment there is a bounded range of policies and arguments the mainstream will tolerate, and political work consists of dragging that range Left or Right until yesterday's unthinkable becomes tomorrow's law. The picture is tidy enough to be repeated whenever someone wants to justify...

Anthony Albanese can read opinion polls until his eyes glaze over. Polls rise and fall, individual surveys contain statistical noise, voters change their minds, and governments have recovered from apparently disastrous positions before. There are other political indicators, however, that cannot be captured quite so neatly in voting-intention percen...

Gareth Roberts's piece on the forthcoming Ali G: Who Iz I? treats the revival of a 1998 character as evidence that mass culture has simply stopped. A film that once would have been unthinkable as a major release, recycling a television figure from the late nineties, now sits alongside endless Partridge, Have I Got News For You and franchise reboots...

The recent decision by the people of Iceland to reject the resumption of European Union accession negotiations is not merely a local political event; it is a profound act of defiance against the relentless tide of globalist centralisation. At a time when the administrative apparatus of the European Union increasingly mirrors the worst impulses of t...

Our Canadian friends tell us, that it's one of those things they notice if they've spent any meaningful time watching the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's (CBC) coverage of major terrorist attacks: the ritualistic tiptoeing, the linguistic gymnastics, the way the word "Islam" gets surgically extracted from sentences where it would otherwise natu...

Cambridge University's Faculty of Education has managed another appointment that raises questions which cannot simply be waved away by invoking a standard recruitment process. Farah Ahmed is now an Assistant Research Professor in the faculty. More than two decades ago she was named as co-author, with Nazreen Nawaz, of a chapter in a Hizb ut-Tahrir ...

The Lindsay Clancy trial raises a question considerably larger than the fate of one defendant. Suppose a jury hears the entire prosecution and defence cases, deliberates at length, receives the judge's strongest permissible encouragement to reach agreement, and still cannot return a unanimous verdict. A mistrial follows. Public anger is enormous. T...

Donald Trump built his political movement around a simple proposition: ordinary people had lost control of institutions that supposedly existed to serve them. Decisions affecting their jobs, communities and futures were increasingly being made by political bureaucracies, global corporations and credentialed elites who regarded popular resistance as...

China Shock 1.0 was clothes, toys, furniture and the quiet death of mill towns. Western politicians called it comparative advantage and pointed at cheap prices. The workers who lost the work were a regional problem. China Shock 2.0 is the same method aimed at the industries the West told itself it would keep: machine tools, industrial robots, elect...

John Leake's Mind Viruses (2026), names the thing Elon Musk keeps pointing at and that institutions keep calling compassion. An idea behaves like an infection when it spreads faster than evidence, punishes immunity, and treats the host's own senses as the disease. The woke regime is the current carrier. Its obsessions are not a list of causes. They...

The university as we inherited it is not reforming. It is running out of the institutional confidence, public trust and economic assumptions that sustained it for generations. Beneath all the language about transformation, access, resilience, inclusion and strategic renewal lies a simpler problem. The old university sold a formidable promise: spend...

Something important has changed in Western intellectual culture, and the change is deeper than political correctness, censorship or the familiar battles over woke language. It concerns the purpose of intellectual discussion itself. The older ideal, however imperfectly realised, held that argument existed primarily to discover what was true. Claims ...

  This point of view has been argued in print at the blog, but for those who may prefer a video, which is something that can be given to the fence-sitters, here is a good one from Celina101, who is doing excellent work for the conservative movement in Australia: https://celina101.substack.com/p/why-we-need-free-speech-to-win