There was once an Australian bargain so ordinary that nobody thought to call it a social contract. You worked, saved, married, bought a modest house, raised children and eventually paid the mortgage off. The house did not need a cinema room, an infinity pool or a kitchen worthy of a television chef. A quarter-acre block, three bedrooms, a shed and ...
The Wehrdienstmodernisierungsgesetz came into force on 1 January 2026. Male citizens born from 2008 onward must fill in a questionnaire on health, schooling and willingness to serve. Completing it is compulsory for men, optional for women. Then comes the Musterung: a medical exam to grade the body for possible use. The government still says actual ...
There is something remarkable about an age supposedly dominated by "white privilege" producing people who pretend not to be white. The latest extraordinary example comes from Philadelphia. Hannah Gann, a public-school teacher and pro-Palestinian activist, has admitted that she falsely presented herself as Palestinian and Black when she was, in her ...
Nigel Farage says a Reform government would bar foreign nationals from social housing, give those already in it three months to find a private rent, and treat failure to do so as a reason to lose the right to remain. The shriek that followed was predictable. The arithmetic underneath it is not mysterious. England had about 1.34 million households o...
Andy Burnham has asked British security chiefs to build a National Centre for Information Defence: to "detect, attribute and disrupt" hostile information attacks, to work with intelligence agencies, police and social media firms, and to stop a "distorted and untrue narrative about Britain." He announced it at the UN, wrapped it in Russia and deepfa...
Coffee has had a strange medical career. For decades it occupied roughly the same nutritional territory as cigarettes and whisky: a pleasurable vice that respectable health advice suggested we should cut down. Now the epidemiological tables have turned. Coffee increasingly looks less like a guilty pleasure and more like one of those rare cases wher...
A pill that helps you on its own can trip you when it joins the rest of the cabinet. That is not mysticism. It is chemistry with a marketing department. TrialSite's brief on supplements (link below), that look helpful alone and unhelpful in combination is a reminder older than the supplement craze. Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC) called it the mean: virt...
Thomas Sowell has spent much of his long career taking complicated political questions and reducing them to uncomfortable first principles. In a recent interview clip now circulating widely, he does it again, this time in connection with the murder of Charlie Kirk and the increasingly casual use of the word "fascist." Sowell's argument is character...
Modern life has produced a peculiar condition in which being constantly rushed is regarded almost as evidence of importance. There is always another email to answer, another appointment to reach, another task that should have been completed yesterday. Even when nothing genuinely urgent is happening, many people feel uncomfortable slowing down. The ...
Steven Pinker told readers there has never been a better time to be alive: violence down over the long run, life longer, torture out of fashion, the better angels winning on points. John Mac Ghlionn, in The Blaze, notes that this is especially true if you are on the receiving end of Western Europe's taxpayer concierge. Village hotels in Ireland tha...
If diversity is the greatest strength, that applies too to rape. Britain will dedicate courtrooms to rape because the queue is a disgrace. Pretending the queue has no connection to who was let in is the other disgrace. Every Crown Court in England and Wales is to set aside a room for rape and serious sexual offences: private doors for complai...
A former fund manager lined up 366 Western jurisdictions, fed them through an index of capture, blowouts and institutional stress, and Victoria came first. Not first as in Singapore. First as in the wooden spoon with a ribbon on it. Score: 79.8. Illinois was second. Sicily was third. That is the company you keep when the ballon goes up. Macrobusine...
Forty-three percent of Americans now say they have a positive view of socialism. Among Democrats the figure is 65 percent. Jonathan Turley calls it a fashion cycle: wait long enough and a generation with no memory of empty shelves will try the jacket on again. The slogan this time is warmer. Collectivism with central heating. Imagine the end of lan...
Leading US Black intellectual, Thomas Sowell, has one of those sayings that initially sounds almost unbearably pessimistic: "There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs." Surely there are solutions to some things. Antibiotics solve infections. Engineers solve structural problems. A mechanic solves the problem of a broken alternator. Sowell is...
In late 2025, Kerala Police in India dismantled a multi-state fake degree racket, arresting 11 suspects and seizing over 100,000 counterfeit certificates linked to around 22 universities or institutions. Authorities estimated that up to 1 million fraudulent degrees could be in circulation. The forged documents primarily targeted fields like medicin...
There is an old anti-war saying, in various forms: suppose they gave a war and nobody came? Britain may be about to conduct a small and rather interesting experiment in that proposition. The Liberal Democrats have urged Prime Minister Andy Burnham to establish a national register of civilians willing to help if Britain comes under attack or faces a...
Canada ran the same experiment Australia is still running, then cut. Labor's refusal is why the party is becoming the issue. Canada did what Australian commentary treats as unthinkable. After a post-pandemic surge that took net overseas migration to 1.23 million in the year to March 2024, Ottawa capped permanent intake, slashed students and tempora...
James Simpson's Red-Green Axis 3.0 and Robert Spencer's discussion of it rest on a political question that will not go away. How does a revolutionary Left that champions secularism, sexual liberation and radical social experimentation repeatedly find itself marching alongside movements whose religious and social doctrines may reject much of that pr...
Something curious is happening in Britain. War is moving from the specialist vocabulary of generals and defence planners into ordinary public conversation, and the British people are increasingly being invited to imagine themselves not merely watching another foreign conflict on television but participating in one. The BBC has now joined that conve...
The temperature data that is used to sell the need for "net zero CO2" and all the accompanying climate change hysteria is based on a mass deception, a manipulation of temperature data, a misrepresentation of historical trajectory of natural weather phenomenon. Climate scientists are increasingly waking up to this evil climate change agenda and expo...
